America Politician (Poetry) - 9/19/2026 4:17:40 PM
We are all aware of the corruption and deceit. But you and I are too old to act against it on the street. Our writing will help, but it must be the young people who changed things for the better.
For now, we must all vote.
Ron
Majestic Aristocrat Governing Autocracy 1 to 6 (Poetry) - 8/26/2026 8:08:42 AM
Trump is certainly bulldozing his way through our country like his own little kingdom. When will everyone realize it and put a stop to his rampage?
Ron
See Shore WAKE (Poetry) - 8/21/2026 11:49:44 AM
I knew you would get WOKE in there somewhere.
I hope you get to meet Sally selling seashells by the seashore. At least in your dreams…
Ron
In GOD Bless America (Poetry) - 8/20/2026 2:19:00 PM
His days are numbered. Will be forgotten like a bad dream.
Ron
P O E T R Y (Poetry) - 8/1/2026 12:47:59 PM
Some revealing acrostic poetry.
Ron
Dye Destiny (Poetry) - 7/29/2026 11:02:45 AM
Forgive me for mistaking the image of Walt Whitman for Longfellow.
The Supreme Court just gave the MAGA Maniac the right to fire independent watch dog federal agencies that provided a check on presidential power.
We have to stop him and those that support him. Democracy relies on all the people. All of us must come forward like you have every day and do what's right. Not what is becoming increasingly authoritarian and demeaning for the average American just living every day.
Ron
It IS ALL About YOU (Poetry) - 7/28/2026 2:01:54 PM
Straight to the point. Gild that lily no more!
Ron
Carry Thee Home (Poetry) - 7/27/2026 7:53:39 AM
The only birthright we should have is the right to be ourselves, learn and grow peacefully. MAGA is certainly patriotic but is wrong and assuming that progress should not continue.
The harm that is done by forcing people to be loyal to a unrighteous cause is despicable.
So hammer away at the gates that enslave us. It's our birthright to do so.
Ron
Hush Now (Poetry) - 7/26/2026 10:29:25 AM
Is that the long living fellow?
We all hope that our words would be heated like his.
Ron
TruMP Is Always RIGHT (Poetry) - 7/24/2026 12:46:23 PM
Surely the point is that, All of them are just another ''face on a front man''... this one is no different.
They're positioned to stoke the fires of public indignation and outrage; and none of them strangers to tall stories.
Politics has always been big business ... and the reactions of their target 'subjects' is apparently the key to it all.
Amid all this chaos, I do the only sensible thing ... stop listening, step back, and watch what unfolds ~ It's never quite how it seems.
Word Wings (Poetry) - 7/24/2026 12:40:32 PM
Interesting. I have seen movies where someone dies and their body is lying there. And then, a ghostly apparition flies away from the body. But there are no wings. Just in depictions of what people think angels are.
All metaphors for the weight of the world gone at death.
Ron
MAGA Perfect Imperfection (Poetry) - 7/22/2026 3:01:07 PM
That bone spur justification for dodging the draft is a good example of the kind of shifty behavior ingrained in the Trump family all along. Passed down by a father to a son. A son whose vanity stood out long before he even got political. When he would show up in Manhattan in a limousine with his perfect hair and long white scarf hoping that the cameras would be their flashing for his royal entry for being nothing but a scum landlord.
Why does half of America love this creature so much? He promises everything and takes most for himself, giving the people nothing but misery and debt.
Wake up everyone and vote for the right people.
Ron
Dream Catcher (Poetry) - 7/21/2026 11:22:54 AM
There are many lessons in Shakespeare that still relate to our time. But only those from a deep love of reading will go back to find them.
You have and it is what makes your poems valuable.
Ron
Birth To Last Breath (Poetry) - 7/19/2026 2:12:37 PM
Requiem for a wordmaster.
Ron
Nature Be Thy Teacher (Poetry) - 7/17/2026 12:43:38 PM
In nature, the fittest survive and become more beautiful with every iteration. As the top predator in nature, man consumes more than he needs and call it success when it only leads to his own demise from greed and lust for power.
Upon the most unproductive of soil, weeds become amazing food sources and nature rules. May the weeds rise up and kill the giant in the beanstalk of power.
Ron
Our Fake Masters (Poetry) - 7/17/2026 11:48:42 AM
Polls show that those in charge do not represent the people, especially here in the United States, where the far right have taken over the Republican Party and gained control of every facet of government. Loyalty is praised and criticism is punished. Often without remorse or concern for what happens to peoples' lives as a result.
We must get together and vote them out from the top down. Reverse the pyramid and do it quickly and concisely.
Ron
TruMP Is Always RIGHT (Poetry) - 7/12/2026 12:45:30 PM
Desperate to build monuments with his name on them. Put his face on Mount Rushmore?
In the last two weeks, two of his most fervent disciples in the Senate have fallen. Maybe it's time that his bone spurs that kept him out of the military have caught up with him and put him among the fallen. Going out like some presidents have…from sickness…not martyrdom for being collateral damage in the political wars. Inflamed by his majesty, himself.
Ron
TruMP Is Always RIGHT (Poetry) - 7/10/2026 3:58:38 PM
Quite a powerful balance of literary focus and political outrage. Enjoyed the brief yet explosive read very much.
USPS Dead Letter Lark Cove Poet (Poetry) - 7/6/2026 11:18:55 AM
The first sign of an autocratic state is the censorship of poet and other writers. Followed by imprisonment.
You are among the elite when it comes to resisting the tyrant operating today. Continue the good work.
Ron
Poet mUSk Be Invisible (Poetry) - 7/5/2026 1:43:53 PM
Trump's trumpet will soon be silenced. He's obviously under a lot of strain that he's trying to throw off. But headed for a stroke or heart attack. Already demented.
Feel bad about your hospitalization but glad that you are back and writing your unique poetic viewpoint once again. Glad that you are able to make it all the way to 250 like I have. And I have blasted him in more ways than one.
Ron
Poet Verses Stoic President (Poetry) - 7/5/2026 11:36:56 AM
When Vets speak out whether in prose or poetry, it reaches the highest level. Continue to keep up the good work of exposing the king with no clothes.
I heard this morning on CBS Sunday Morning that the chief editor all Stars and Stripes has been fired because she refused to agree to not include WOKE material in articles.
I hope that everybody is waking up to the Hitler realization of our society before it is too late and Civil War will break out.
Ron
The Grave (Poetry) - 6/30/2026 11:13:56 AM
Some great points made. The experiment started 250 years ago has made great progress since. What we are seeing is a minor set back by a small minority of individuals who control by money and power.
Once that is recognized, the experiment will continue to improve. What we must remember, is the democracy, defined by Plato, started with the American experiment. Throughout the world, democracy is steadily growing and probably, the most successful form of government that the world has ever known.
Ron
PS. I made plans over 10 years ago and have been selling excess stuff that maybe someone would want that would otherwise be just thrown away.
GOD Too Scream (Poetry) - 5/3/2026 8:24:48 AM
Unfortunately, there are fewer and fewer of us left who remember those days when young men like you were drafted into a war that should've never happened. A war that should have given them honor for having served, instead of continual ridicule and failure of the government services promise to come true.
Thank you not for that, but for your steadfast poetic reveal of the greedy despotery that is taking over our country. It is a great service in the name of liberty and freedom for all.
Ron
PTSD TPSD - 2013 (Poetry) - 3/28/2026 8:36:11 AM
I don't know if I read this before, but it gets at the core of your being after the trauma of your service that haunts you. Requires you to make the VA and the federal government understand that to serve one's country in battle, needs much more assistance after the army than ever before.
Keep fighting the good fight. We are reading your poems and are with you all the way.
Ron
Yea Shall A Rise (Poetry) - 3/20/2026 12:41:06 PM
It's good to see you posting again.
The tide is turning on the turners. America is already great and connected with the world. No need to go backward into a retro life of walled-in castle borders, ideas and ideologies of a bygone myth. Concepts rejected by our founding fathers who recognized the need to be connected and open and wise. Allowing amendments to the constitution to write even their wrongs, many.
Vote them all out and their lies!
Ron
Tender Rest Blade Of Grass 1 - 20 (Poetry) - 2/23/2026 11:55:47 AM
I worried about you, missing from these pages lately. But I see you were writing this masterpiece manifesto of how you see our world from a Vietnam vet who was fired for writing poetry’s perspective.
Keep a aliterating, hyphenating and creating acronyms and synonyms, spicing words into new meanings…all the while throwing out the trash of our society like the things we thought we needed, but never really did. The injustice and the angst of those left out in society because they don't fit the MAGA shoe size.
Keep socking it to them. So will I.
Ron
X Posts December 2025 (Poetry) - 1/3/2026 11:33:58 AM
Except for the poem repeating (twice?), you say a lot for what MAGA and Trump are doing to our veterans with empty promises and platitudes.
While they send our troops into our cities to act as police and into another country starting another Vietnam in Venezuela, claiming victory when defeat is all we will get.
Ron
Love Lotion LocoMotion (Poetry) - 11/11/2025 9:21:36 AM
I understand the original Ben Franklin had a few of those.
Let us hope that this inspiration can bring a little bit of that locomotion your way. Nothing inspires passion more.
Ron
Our 1776 Miracle (Poetry) - 11/8/2025 8:50:13 AM
The parallels of rejecting a king our evident in your poem. It may take a second Civil War to wake up those enamored with MAGA ideas to what is really going on behind the scenes where only the wealthy have any say in government. Using a popularist monarch to carry out their wishes.
Ron
We The People Are The Miracle Equation (Poetry) - 11/5/2025 9:22:57 AM
I am constantly amazed with the way you manipulate words to reach a higher level of understanding of our great country. You are the wordsmith supreme.
I see the tide turning with yesterday's elections. The people are fed up with the unilateral ravings of the current king of the realm who thinks himself invincible as he surrounds himself with loyalty instead of greatness.
He soon will be gone and people will once again be caring and helpful for all citizens and not just for the privileged, wealthy few.
It will take some doing, but we all know that the best way for the world to stop fighting is for everyone to start opening up and tearing down the walls between us in favor of crossing borders freely, whether it be in trade or tourism.
The world is our oyster and we must protect it from the ravages of those wishing to become wealthy from its destruction.
Ron
American Team WORKS (Poetry) - 10/18/2025 9:25:20 AM
It takes all kinds to make a nice stirfry. One or two ingredients: White, Christian, mother or father will only do and must lean far to the Republican right, too. A poor recipe for a melting pot nation that made us great.
Can't you all see that the narcissistic, selfish pontiff is in it only for himself and his dynasty family? While he is ripping the very nature of our democratic experiment apart by requiring absolute loyalty to him as the only source of good behavior? Behavior that is very bad for the country, indeed. We all need to rise up, tar and feather him for what he is and ride him out of Washington on a rail.
No kings allowed in this country of freedom and equality.
Ron
Poet Poem Potpourri (Poetry) - 9/28/2025 8:41:14 AM
At first I thought you were honoring George Strait and Trace Adkins with the first two stanzas. But then you threw me a drift with the last one writing about perfume.
Ron
What Is Life Butt An Daily UriNation (Poetry) - 9/27/2025 9:56:39 AM
I feel for you man. I am a connoisseur of peeing.
Wondering what will be next. Will you be ICE Tea Partied out of the country for being unAmerican?
It's coming unless we start doing something about it.
Ron
Trump This tRUMP That TruMP Ever Ready Every Thing (Poetry) - 9/12/2025 2:04:37 PM
I love it when you rant. You ran for rights that are being taken away in the form of a dictator who caters to the rich and powerful while making nice talk to everyone else as though flattery will get you everywhere when flattery is just a ruse to get you to do what he wants.
Beware the Pied Piper, don't follow him to your death.
Ron
All About You (Poetry) - 8/23/2025 9:22:28 AM
So this is a side of your pen (so to speak) new to me. Love the playful musicality and what feels to me like muted commentary on other matters as well. Enjoyed the read very much.
All About You (Poetry) - 8/18/2025 2:23:54 PM
There's nothing about the dance with the one we love that we can't say more about. It's all about the motion, the locomotion of love.
Ron
Wry Wandering Whisp Winds (Poetry) - 8/18/2025 1:52:52 PM
Some interesting pondering about the way our world works from the viewpoint of those living on it and are so dependent upon the seasons for the time of plenty that feeds us.
Ron
A Lone (Poetry) - 8/2/2025 3:55:27 PM
Powerful and provocative lines as always, but also movingly humane in their balanced intensities of outrage and pain. Whether time allows me to comment or not, always enjoy your work.
A Lone (Poetry) - 7/27/2025 10:48:30 AM
That about sums it up from every nook and cranny.
We all die alone. But in your case, I think it will be doubly alone with no one at all at your deathbed. Sad for a veteran poet to not be recognized.
Ron
Carl Carl Do Not Leave Me (Poetry) - 7/16/2025 9:07:16 AM
I believe she believes that. Sixty years is a long time for a celebrity marriage. But, it helps if one of the partners stays out of the limelight like Carl did.
Ron
Love Lotion Loco Motion Emotion (Poetry) - 7/12/2025 9:39:25 AM
Move on, indeed! The music still reverberates four score and two. And Dolly has no time to dolly around when it comes to both new love and music.
The tide is turning and Trump will be no longer anything but a bad blot on the pages of history. While poetry and music will live on and on and on..
Lone Star Mockingbird DEI WAKE Veteran Poet (Poetry) - 6/21/2025 8:52:04 AM
We all be different from someone else. Why harbor hatred for it? Your poor gets right to the point of all of the buzz words describing the mess we are in. Created by none other than us. We have seen the enemy, and it is us.
Ron
Mockingbird Lives (Poetry) - 6/19/2025 12:11:45 PM
Have you heard the word, Mockingbird? I don't think they have, yet. But eventually they will, although others may pay for their crimes.
Ron
RIP Van Wrinkle Veteran Mockingbird (Poetry) - 6/16/2025 11:24:27 AM
I like how you have so skillfully merged all of the words coming out of political rhetoric into your own life story and such a creative and useful way of illustrating what is wrong with a society who just follows and doesn't critically think about who or what they are following.
Ron
GOD To Find (Poetry) - 6/5/2025 12:13:21 PM
Yes, "Let's all get together and try to love one another,
right now." The Young Bloods.
Ron
HoloCaust CrASS To Kill A Mockingbird Part One (Poetry) - 5/31/2025 9:58:22 AM
Who's afraid of DEI? Who's afraid of WOKE?
Only paranoid greedy anal conservative turncoats, that's who. Trying to bury or burn the truth through books and all art forms loved by me and you.
Keep on cooking them through and through, for all the lying that they do, and get them ready to be tarred and feathered… rode out of town with their own doo doo.
Ron
Irish Love Isle Locomotion (Poetry) - 5/27/2025 12:46:20 PM
A downtrodden people with a gift for gab and long hours with which to practice poem and song.
So many like you show in this poem about the Emerald Isle, wishing to go back there to see what their ancestors lived like in time softened memory.
Ron
Project 2025 Tanks Amuck (Poetry) - 5/24/2025 12:29:45 PM
Sorry to hear of your loss… especially to Facebook although I don't subscribe to it at all as a way to have family and friends near.
Thank you for your addresses. I've been looking for one of them for a very long time and will connect, soon.
Ron
MAGA Project 2025 June 14 (Poetry) - 5/24/2025 9:19:09 AM
Your poem brings out several abuses by the dictator in chief and his backers pulling the strings: the closing of an American institution, the Kennedy Center, to American artists on the planet, running rough shod over free speech; returning to George Washington isolationism in a world of International corporations and highly interactive discourse between countries and citizens; and sending dissenters to Guantánamo among other grievous Plan 2025 dictatorial actions unbecoming a free democracy like the United States of America.
Ron
American Born BirthWrite (Poetry) - 5/20/2025 11:05:56 AM
Who will deliver our unprofitable mail once MAGA has torn the post office down?
I just learned that at least three American born toddlers were sent through the mail with a $.15 postage stamp pasted to their foreheads. All arrive safely, even one from Florida to New Jersey. Now that's the good old American spirit!
Ron
78745 1830 Poet Patriot Purple Passion Restoration (Poetry) - 5/14/2025 11:38:29 AM
What an outpouring of your resourceful poetic talents in this piece! You have covered all the hurtful bases where the current administration is hurting the poor and down trodden and particularly, the veterans with PTSD who did nothing but serve their countries to their fullest in a situation that was unwinnable.
Keep up the challenge. Eventually it may sink into some of the right wing hardhead peoples' mind.
Ron
78745 1803 In The Month Of May (Poetry) - 5/7/2025 12:23:50 PM
Bluebonnets are about over in early April, but many other wildflowers take off in May. Unfortunately ,our communist rivals have commandeered Mayday, 1 May for their own purposes.
Ron
Young Poet 78745-1830 Project (Poetry) - 5/6/2025 12:13:12 PM
You seem to be the only one left here railing daily about what is happening to our Country now that Trump got a hold of it by deceit. Continuous as long as you can. You are a strong voice for all those disowned veterans, especially drafted into the Vietnam war with no say, but part floor our country right or wrong.
No longer will be fight for wrong.
Ron
Tank Yea (Poetry) - 4/16/2025 2:12:24 PM
Thank yeah for reminding us that history repeats itself and cruelty seems to never end even among the brightest of times.
Like Harvard, never surrender to false claims of a liberal elitism even with the army at the doors.
Ron
TP (Poetry) - 4/5/2025 11:40:00 AM
How long will Republicans in the House and Senate continue to praise him and his actions as though they are written in a plan for a new constitution and form of leadership?
Will they step up and say anything when he declares himself emperor for life and does away with mandatory stepping down after two terms? I'm beginning to wonder.
No one that I've talked to likes what's happening. It's time to impeach him. But we may have to wait until the next congressional elections to get some backbone into the Congress.
Ron
WE Art Democracy Diversity 21 to 30 (Poetry) - 3/29/2025 1:30:58 PM
More use of the words of today to show how stupid the whole thing is conjured up by the Republicans to enrich them and all of their followers by sucking from the poor and giving to the rich.
Ron
WE Art Democracy Diversity 11 to 20 (Poetry) - 3/29/2025 12:33:23 PM
With these last three stanza you have covered the awful character of the new administration and its two primary instigators of mayhem and hate. One, to resolve what will be and the other to carry it out, regardless of law or reason.
Based on the lack of reaction from the conservative side, I would say that those who voted to bring the tyrant in, like what he and his henchman are doing. Unfortunately a Civil War may be on horizon and difficulty starting another democratic government after like has happened in so many countries around the world.
All because of the greed of individuals and not compassion in fairness that should represent what an American is, not some artificial pumped up greatness that doesn't exist.
Ron
WE Art Democracy Diversity 1 to 10 (Poetry) - 3/29/2025 12:04:27 PM
Once more, a lyrical and wordplay account of where we came from and where we are going in your own impeccable style that draws me to reading every line.
Ron
WE Art Democracy Diversity 1 to 10 (Poetry) - 3/26/2025 6:15:34 PM
I suspect Whitman would have enjoyed reading these lines as much as I. Free verse exercised with equal parts lyrical cadence and political outrage, or social lamenting, can be tricky to pull off. It nevertheless, apparently, works well enough when flowing from a pen filled with "HeArtMospheric" sincerity. If you don't mind me putting it that way. Enjoyed the read.
MAGA Orange versus MAGNA Carta Purple Part 1 to 10 (Poetry) - 3/24/2025 12:33:37 PM
A long read to get through with much repetition, but a revealing look at the way things are until we stand up and change them. To add to your lexon …
Immigration go down the toil-yet by the pull of demon-crazy MAGA mad man. Destroying info-structure free speech where migrant toil-yet least free rewarded.
Ron
MAGNA Carta (Poetry) - 3/22/2025 9:07:13 AM
Much truth in your words. We are going backward into the middle ages. Where are the world over war lords became lords and kings, some benign, most not.
Impeachment process is already underway. Both from the judiciary and the legislative side. But we need to move more quickly before Trump gains more power and ability to wreck havoc without any checks and balances that he has stripped from government process.
It's time to understand what greatness this country has comes from its people and not from its leaders.
Ron
Its Over (Poetry) - 2/24/2025 9:21:18 AM
This writing is strangely hauntingly captivatingly holding the thumb on the weakening pulse. I found myself engrossed in the shard-like style of this writing. I recall Speaker Pelosi informing the public that it was the US Marshall position that could ‘step in.’ So…as you say, ‘apparently not even.’ We deserve the answer to ‘Why?’ The energy and accuracy found in this post is breathtakingly-said. ~~ djl
Its Over (Poetry) - 2/23/2025 1:50:43 PM
Let's hope it's just a bad blot on history when the world turned and saw what was happening to our democracy.
And the good people of the United States of America finally stood up to demagoguery and money power with their vote that could not be disputed. But as long as people are ignorant and believe that rumors and lies are better than the truth we will always be in danger of following towards the dark side of our existence.
Ron
Where Or Where (Poetry) - 2/23/2025 11:07:18 AM
There is no one dismissing the sensory escaping, "fork you."
It Musk be done, sooner rather than later. And veterans will lead the charge.
Ron
Ode To An Dead Poet and More (Poetry) - 2/14/2025 4:24:22 PM
A wonderful read. Your Shakespearean flourishes blend well with the energy of outrage over our chaotic times and those believing they are managing the destruction they so joyfully inflict upon the lives of others. Thank you for writing and sharing.
US Application For American Poetic License (Poetry) - 2/13/2025 1:25:37 PM
I think you nailed it with this one. Time that everybody WOKE up and flu write, not far right..
Ron
Tank You America (Poetry) - 2/9/2025 2:04:42 PM
You've touched all the bases in the current administration 's tie rate against humanity in their eager rush to enrich themselves more than they already are.
Thanks for telling it like it is. Watching while they tank the home of the brave and the free.
Ron
1776 Starting Point (Poetry) - 2/6/2025 1:45:34 PM
It's been a hard fight and it definitely isn't over yet. You're one of the voices that are being heard.
Ron
Take Me Home (Poetry) - 2/5/2025 6:38:07 AM
Beautiful!
Take Me Home (Poetry) - 2/3/2025 9:27:47 AM
I like the theme. Reminiscent of the Country song, The Green Green Grass of Home. There's nothing like the country and I would live there if I could.
Beyoncé just received a horny Grammy for her album, Cowboy Carter. Going country is bad. As far as I know she's a city girl from Houston.
Ron
Dawn Sounds (Poetry) - 1/28/2025 2:14:24 PM
Sauerkraut on mashed potatoes! That's something I remember the taste of from my youth in Little Germany.
And you covered quite a few of other interesting coincidences that come in our lives. Like champagne corks.
With no date I assume it's fresh off the notepad.
Ron
AWAKE Free Press Verse Free Speech Terse (Poetry) - 1/24/2025 2:54:30 PM
Five poems that all draw on the need for freedom of speech without that speech becoming riddled with lies and hatred sparking action that is violent.
The ingenuity and effort to put in make your poetry different from all others is admired by me if not by many.
I suspect you are reclaiming here poetry that you lost from Facebook when you were banned.
Ron
AWAKE Free Press Verse Free Speech Terse (Poetry) - 1/23/2025 12:05:47 PM
Always admire your gift for combining different poetic forms with powerful social and political observations. Enjoyed the read tremendously.
Infinite Nothing (Poetry) - 1/21/2025 11:05:06 AM
Very insightful following my poem. Yes, it is a lot of infinite nothing. But more proven than all this belief in a god that doesn't exist except in the minds of men who won't let go of something they don't understand.
I'm letting scientist continue their work
Infinite Nothing (Poetry) - 1/19/2025 9:43:20 AM
Your words give your readers much to think about. I mean your words are deep, David. I enjoyed reading this write! Rock on!!
Love ya!
Jane
Middle (Poetry) - 1/14/2025 12:47:19 PM
Interesting structure to this poem.
Yes we are a, "Goldilocks" planet. With everything right in the middle and a human population able to move into every habitable sector of the planet. So successful that we have created a situation where we are rapidly destroying the habitat for all of our supporting creatures and creating waste that we can't get rid of.
We may be the only middle planet in the near universe. We need to stop destroying it based on our greed and misunderstanding of our superiority.
Ron
A-LONE Poet Pot-Purr-I (Poetry) - 1/14/2025 11:41:03 AM
A certainly nice potpourri of your poetry talent. But I don't know if it is newly written or you are just trying to restore poems that you wrote before that were lost on Facebook.
They seem to be new because they are lamenting your recent difficulty with everything that comes with age and discrimination.
Ron
In your photo you appear to be at church.
nO thinG (Poetry) - 1/11/2025 12:56:58 PM
Making the last letter in a word a capital letter does not improve the poem one bit. But the poem is clearly crying out for recognition and that's okay. Especially for a veteran who did what he thought was right for the country initially owe me to be left in the lurch in later years.
Ron
Thanks Giving PPPP 1776 Rebellion (Poetry) - 12/7/2024 11:54:24 AM
Is my sincere hope that we will be able to overcome and bring back those progressive laws of the land that were meant to help people, all of the people and not just the elite of the people.
Patriotic Purple Party (Poetry) - 11/10/2024 9:02:06 AM
Yes, one of the great principles of our republic is that we tolerate differences of opinion and allow the opposing side to win with regular, fair elections when the pendulum swings too far to the right or left.
In the end, most Americans do not change the way they behave towards other Americans and other people around the world, because of the leadership. And I hope that never happens where oppositions are completely closed from freedom of speech and are oppressed by hatred and fear.
Ron
Patriotic Purple Party (Poetry) - 11/7/2024 8:17:03 AM
Your talent for showcasing constructive political thought within verse shines beautifully in these inspiring lines. A great read for Americans during this sensitive transitional period as the power of leadership is peacefully (hopefully) transferred from the current president to the next.
Constitutional Project 2024 (Poetry) - 10/19/2024 9:45:07 AM
You always remind us of the truth of the matter. Keep on writing.
While I honor what the founding fathers did for us by writing the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution, they were in a time of 18th-century thinking, some of which has been discounted by scientific study and therefore needs to be changed.
There is a clause in the Constitution that states that it can be, "altered or abolished." Nearly 250 years is a good test of our Constitution's durability, but some of the things in the Constitution, like the status of slaves as property and worth votes for the owners is completely out of place, yet remains a serious problem that a constitutional revision could stop.
Unfortunately, the red side of the political spectrum is blaming the truth as simply something they call "woke" and want to ban from public view so uncivil practices like the unfairness of the gerrymandered electoral college never gets changed.
Finally, after a quarter of the millennium, it is time to bring the U.S. Constitution into the 21st-century and the challenges we face today, not retaining our bad behavior from the past.
Ron
Rock N Roll Love Locomotion (Poetry) - 10/16/2024 8:51:05 AM
Your words ring true, David! I locomoted to the polls yesterday and made my moves count..............towards happiness, not hate!! Thank you for this offering!!
Love ya!
Jane
Rock N Roll Love Locomotion (Poetry) - 10/15/2024 9:47:24 AM
Very apropos for the times. Often wonder where all the love went during the time that the rock 'n' roll revolution rose up against uncivil rights and the Vietnam War… Your legacy.
Kampala beams with love everywhere she goes, encouraging people that she will do everything in her power to make sure that the downtrodden will have a better stake in society.
On the contrary, the Donald spends most of his time fueling the fire of hate through spreading lies playing on the worst fears of Americans as though that will make us a better nation when all it's doing is tearing us apart. Let's hope that love wins over hate. And those that feel so sorry for themselves and their own behavior that side with him, will feel better during the years that she reigns over a more peaceful, respectful and loving nation.
Ron
A Bliss America (Poetry) - 10/10/2024 11:46:10 AM
Poetry and music does lead US Into reformation and a better country to serve the world and our democracy. We must always change for the better and not worse. This poem, in particular, strives for doing it peacefully and rightfully as we move eventually into the 22nd century, a proud and patriotic country that is not aggressive towards , but helpful in bringing about democracy worldwide.
Ron.
WIlt BE Free (Wilt) (Poetry) - 10/8/2024 1:52:29 PM
For all your wordsmithing, you Wilt be tall and free like Chamberlain. Never the more to knock your head on the lower glass ceilings of neglect.
Ron
Musical Miracles (Poetry) - 10/7/2024 2:54:49 PM
If we elect all the women candidates on the Democratic ballot we will be going a long way toward creating peace and tranquility in the Lone Star State where big oil has reigned for way too long. Perhaps to our demise as a civilization.
May the muse continue to guide you,
Ron
Time Piece (Poetry) - 10/4/2024 1:40:21 PM
Just continue with that uplifting spring sprout spirit and you will do all right.
The mega leader of the righteous right is on his way to the grave. There's nowhere else for that graven nave to go after failing to disrupt the election process one more time before he crawls off into the woodwork for a while, contemplating what he has done wrong this time.
Ron
Honorable Tormented Tortured Discharged Veteran Poet (Poetry) - 9/29/2024 9:58:13 AM
Some of your best wurtsmith references I especially like the reference to 247 years since the founding of our country, certainly matching the 24/7 lives we lead today with IA leading the way and our eyelids drooping from constant watching the news, our friends on social media and our property which seems to be disappearing all around us.
Welcome to the land of the Pied Piper of pap. The popular, larger-than-life narcissistic trooper of innuendo and untruth. Hiell Harpo Marx hairdo and similar thinking.
Ron
Works Bee Word-Wise Lit Reflections (Poetry) - 9/10/2024 10:56:48 AM
Congrats on being selected for that journal. Your wordsmithing shows through in the poem.
Ron
Room Womb Tomb Democracy WAKE (Poetry) - 9/5/2024 12:20:14 AM
You are watching Too Much CBS and CBN, my friend.
Spending time watching that WOKE news, I would feel also the same.
I would point my finger and say the other party is to blame.
I'd blame others for sky-high prices and the price of gas.
When I could not pay the rent, I would blame another party.
But when the elections are over, I will still be in the dirt,
The party I elected would laugh because I gave them a FREE pass.
Novel America (Poetry) - 9/3/2024 7:59:12 AM
With level heads and firm resolve, we will wrest the reins from tyranny and power democratic, free and just nation will move onward, not backward through this troubling century.
Ron
GOD Let Thee Dye Thy Free Verse (Poetry) - 9/2/2024 2:30:37 PM
A stern warning about half of this nation enamored with a very small in crowd of master puppeteers and wage slavers with their Pied Piper puppet leader of absolute loyalty and nationalist superiority.
And thank you for the heads up on India. It also appears that nationalism is taken Israel with them committing a Holocaust on an entire people for having 250 of their precious souls taken captive.
Ron
RIP TAPS Dye Grave Arlington Dis-Service (Poetry) - 8/31/2024 1:32:16 PM
by Alexander Shaumyan 7/15/2024
As of July 14, 2024, the world has seen a true warrior and a leader.
https://www.skynews.com.au/opinion/paul-murray/such-a-fighter-the-world-saw-a-lion-after-failed-trump-assassination-attempt/video/f8840772eb7cdf06bfcc2aaebb34cd31
From Australia's Sky News:
Sky News contributor Kristin Tate says the world "saw a lion" in the moment Donald Trump stood up defiantly while rallying his supporters after having just been shot and injured in a failed assassination attempt.
Donald Trump is recovering after surviving an assassination attempt on his life at his recent rally.
Speaking to Sky News Australia on Sunday evening, Ms Tate reflected on the moment Donald Trump was shot.
"It showed how strong Donald Trump is – that guy is such a fighter.
"To get shot like that and then immediately put your fist up in a show of strength and tell your supporters 'fight, fight, fight', we saw a lion in that moment.
"And I think it made people so proud of Donald Trump."
I agree! Please present FACTS, not POETIC FLUFF.
RIP TAPS Dye Grave Arlington Dis-Service (Poetry) - 8/31/2024 8:55:04 AM
Thank you for reminding me that the MAGA-people are doing exactly what the Germans did in the early 1930s leading to that disastrous war and the near extermination of a proud and prosperous German people, the Jews.
The targets now are freedom of speech in books, taking away women's rights to their own bodies, using young people to flight wars over money and then leaving those veterans destitute and often, mentally disturbed without treatment, and forcing, once again all people into two distinct sexes and classified races according to their supposed worth to society.
The final straw is when a ex-president does not have the understanding of national monuments to stomp on them as though they were his to use for his self-promotion like disrupting a peaceful demonstration in front of the White House by brandishing a Bible that he probably never has read. Selling them for profit.
Ron
Celestial Presence POWER (Poetry) - 8/29/2024 2:26:24 PM
All spoken in truth and with creative flare David !
Fiddling A Lone Saxon Knight (Poetry) - 8/26/2024 1:51:04 PM
Wish I could've been there with you at the Saxon on a Lone Star night. Sounds like fun.
Ron
Sunday Mourning Weak End (Poetry) - 8/25/2024 8:05:15 AM
You haven't lost your wordsmithing prowess. You will be slicing and dicing words and still giving them great meaning long after many Sunday morning's weak ends keep coming around.
Ron
Knead To Wham Bam Rite So Sole Dark 4 Poems (Poetry) - 8/25/2024 6:28:58 AM
Excellent poetry that paints a picture of the haves and have-nots and the make-believe world of the political cloud of confusion. May the Lord have mercy on us all. Amen
Knead To Wham Bam Rite So Sole Dark 4 Poems (Poetry) - 8/24/2024 12:13:18 PM
Your first poem warns us of accepting plans that are designed to control and define people.
Your second poem is about the darkness of being thrust into the untouchable state while most wage earning hard-working middle-class people are driven into being only surfs for the military-industrial-corporate complex of superiority. With regard only to the bottom line using human beings as fodder for the canons of continual war and discarded after.
Your third poem shows how easily the bureaucracy can cause people great stress where they eventually burn out from effort like a bearing with sand in it. Although they try day after day to change things through poetry, they probably will go to their final cremation by fire unable to buy a huge monument to their self-imposed importance.
Ron
First And Foremost An American (Poetry) - 8/14/2024 12:09:30 PM
Thank you for the original poem. I often wondered if there were additional stanzas.
Yes we are one people would have realized that our country his now an integral part of the world, as exemplified by the Olympics.
There are other great patriotic songs that bring us together like America the Beautiful and God Bless America, as well as later tributes like Born in the USA.
Ron
When Words Fail US (Poetry) - 8/14/2024 9:11:44 AM
I like the, not so hidden, reference to Vance referring to Holz's years in the National Guard as not being military (like his). All the while ignoring his boss, Trump's dismal deferment for bone spurs.
I believe The Donald has had a reoccurrence of the bone spurs by the looks of his face as he tries to talk these days… Obviously in great pain. Physical pain from his attacking bone growth that translates into his nasty, totally unsubstantiated lashing out at anyone he feels might be endangering him and his growing dynasty of family and followers hoping to suck off the tit of big government money.
With your poetry and others like mine, The Trumped-up dynasty is on the decline.
Ron
Strait Shot Of Country Loving (Poetry) - 8/11/2024 10:11:10 AM
Yes, we're tired of doublespeak and want straight talk from our leaders without all the accusation and posturing. Country folk generally want love and peace. Not like the few rebels who want to raise their right to hold arms high and shoot off both their mouths and their guns in some sort of modern-day revolution against law while they're framing their demands into law or judicial opinion at the same time.
George should run for President. He'd get my vote in a hot minute. All my wives are from Texas by way of other places before they came here and got stuck with me… Hee, hee.
Ron
Strait Shot Of Country Loving (Poetry) - 8/10/2024 8:11:33 PM
Hey David, this is a charming poem about a beloved Country and Western Superstar. I heard that George Strait broke the attendance record in a stadium in Texas without any fancy lights and fireworks displays. That's a rare talent, and America needs more heroes like George! Well done!
Sat A Lone Star (Poetry) - 8/7/2024 9:18:29 AM
Sounds like a great place to stop by on Mondays .
If I were in Austin I would drop in on you and we could discuss poetry. Although I'm more interested in novels and short stories of yours and others.
Ron
Phantom Fathom (Poetry) - 8/4/2024 9:18:21 AM
Your poem depicts one dead bird like the image about to call in the final curtain. Is anyone reading that understands? I hope so.
I was looking for the word, copse, but never saw it… Nevermind.
Ron
Promote Falling For America Events (Poetry) - 7/31/2024 1:19:41 PM
Surely a lot of work in casting these formative poems about bringing us all together and doing the right thing. I can see you coming up with the phrases and the wordsmithing in each small poem completed.
Ron
Freire Gaelic Greeting Legacy (Poetry) - 7/30/2024 12:21:55 PM
Perhaps a treat for someone who understands Gaelic.
Ron
See Saw Sand Grain (Poetry) - 7/24/2024 11:12:42 AM
Sensational ink, David!!
Love ya!
Jane
See Saw Sand Grain (Poetry) - 7/24/2024 11:00:15 AM
Lots of alliteration and some great wordsmithing. Capturing the seaside very well.
"Sally sells sea shells by the seashore…" Quickly came to mind.
Ron
Fathom Lincoln Memorial 2024 Postmortem Gettysburg Speech (Poetry) - 7/20/2024 10:41:14 AM
So true. Unfortunately, the Republican Party, formed not far from the Republican Convention held this year in Milwaukee, was a very progressive party. It was for abolishing slavery and other reforms that have taken a long time to come.
The speeches at the Republican convention in no way mirror the ideals of Lincoln. They are mostly just gripes about the individuals not getting their way like spoiled brats. They know nothing of suffering and turn their backs on those who suffer. Even though they want everyone born, even if they are born into poverty and suffering.
Sorry for the rant, but we need, like you wrote, a Republican like Lincoln as a presidential candidate rather than one like Hitler or Putin.
Ron
Eight Score And One (Poetry) - 7/18/2024 1:53:24 PM
That was articulated well by a GREAT President. Yes, we have GREAT leadership in the Republican Party today. All people have to do is listen with an OPEN mind. Amen X 110!
Eight Score And One (Poetry) - 7/18/2024 11:16:58 AM
Well said. The United States cannot be isolationist in a rapidly changing world of wealthy corporations above the law. International cooperation will and the need for strong military threat prevent loss of ideals like democracy.
Angry abusive rhetoric will only be met by more angry abusive rhetoric. The stuff that makes wars.
Complacency and isolationism will lead to global warming destroying all of us regardless of how much wealth we have power. Mother nature does not play favorites.
Republicans, you should listen to the wise words of the first Republican president, Abraham Lincoln. Not the lives of your so-called leaders today.
Ron
Twelve Score And Nine (Poetry) - 7/17/2024 8:56:09 AM
Your poem is spot on. The imbalance in the checks and balance created by the Constitution and our founding fathers is very disturbing. The government currently does not represent the people as a whole, but the rich and influential.
While the higher ranking military are doing quite well, most veterans, especially disabled ones, are not. The capitalistic way of doing government means that the low hanging fruit will be taken care of first and the harder to do, like treating veterans with PTSD to give them a better life, the disabled and the poor for whatever reason, will be cut back or neglected. This is known as cost-saving, so that profits can be reaped and shared with wealthy stockholders and board members.
The imbalance in government has gradually turned back time to a more oppressive form of living in the United States. The only freedom remaining is the freedom to make money and have fewer and lower taxes. But the people that need help the most are those who don't make enough money to pay taxes. In the state of Texas, poor people pay sales tax on every basic need while the wealthy do not have to pay any income tax at all.
Ron
Twelve Score And Nine (Poetry) - 7/17/2024 5:00:04 AM
A very good and educational poem of Americas history,and also concern for its future is delicately woven into the last verse ✌
A Lone Star American Poet Tree Dream (Poetry) - 6/29/2024 9:34:59 AM
As we come upon July 4 and remember what that means, I'm glad that Texas decided to join the union rather than go it alone as a country. I'm glad that you have settled in one of the most "liberal" cities in the state.
But most hard-working Texans don't know, is that two Texas billionaires have bought most of the rural part of the Western Texas landscape with massive campaign funds, including judges, sheriffs, school board members and dogcatchers.
When I first came to Texas 42 years ago, I was wondering why there were so many judges to vote on that I didn't know or care to know. Most of them were Republican and not challenged. Now that I know, big money has bought the state of Texas and it's time that the hard-working people of Texas realize it and vote against big-money rule.
Ron
Birthright Birth-Write American Annunciation (Poetry) - 6/29/2024 8:06:57 AM
Coming from a very military family, not "losers" at all, I'm proud of all who served, David. Write on!!
Love ya!
Jane
PoeCreation Of Craven NeverMore (Poetry) - 6/29/2024 7:57:57 AM
Alright, David! Being a Poe freak, your words come through loud and clear, dear!! Write on!!
Love ya!
Jane
Birthright Birth-Write American Annunciation (Poetry) - 6/28/2024 1:14:25 PM
Thank you for telling it like it is. This country is no country for old men. See the movie or read the book to understand. You and I could probably debate better than either of those demented souls, but I know better than to try to lead at my age, the same as Joe Biden. The problems of our country are too complex for old ideas.
in case his followers haven't noticed… Donald Trump is more demented than Joe Biden. Holding on to the delusions of his failed presidency that have no basis in fact. Only in the fantasy of his sociopathic lifestyle and his ignorant followers, believing everything he says like his puppets.
No man is above the law. Hunter Biden took it like a man. Donald Trump is taking it like a crybaby. A very vindictive one.
Ron
Acrostic David Lester Young (Poetry) - 5/26/2024 9:29:13 AM
I'm glad that you can, at this time of Memorial Day, feel free to play fun with your name a meaningful acrostic poem.
Ron
A CROSS RIP Van Winkle (Poetry) - 5/8/2024 8:42:33 AM
Man, that is all a lot of poetic expression in one small poem. Kudos
Ron
A CROSS RIP Van Winkle (Poetry) - 5/5/2024 12:59:28 PM
Imagine Rip Van Winkle waking up today!!!! I wonder what he would think. He'd pray, David, that what he was seeing would go away! Write on, David Lester Young!!
Love ya!
Jane
American Perfect Rose (Poetry) - 4/28/2024 9:37:13 AM
Donald Trump is no Rose. He is perfectly described as being a sociopathic, narcissistic, pompous Ass! A man who actually believes that he is above the law, can get the law changed in his favor, and if that doesn't work, can intimidate those who would be in charge of doing the duty of carrying out the law.
Do we really want a gangster or dictator for our country?
Ron
A CROSS America (Poetry) - 4/19/2024 2:03:18 PM
Hatred does not solve problems. Our representatives in Congress need to recognize that when they hate they are feeling unworthy themselves in their roles as model citizens, supposedly representing us instead of those that give money to them.
Ron
Country Love Commotion (Poetry) - 4/11/2024 10:31:16 AM
Nothing like getting back to the contrary for that lovely emotion devotion potion.
Ron
Seclusion (Poetry) - 2/26/2024 9:40:11 AM
You have nailed it with this one… Cradle-to-grave… The fate of us all, but harder for some than others.
Ron
N.F.L. Love Locomotion (Poetry) - 2/18/2024 11:26:03 AM
A playful look at how, mostly men, fall in love with the NFL even if they never played the game.
Of course the presence of Taylor Swift has brought a lot of young women into admiring the sport for more than just over big guys playing rough-and-tumble.
Ron
I Divisible Infinity (Poetry) - 1/22/2024 8:21:18 AM
In death we dew part of this world.
Ron
I Divisible Infinity (Poetry) - 1/22/2024 5:19:37 AM
its good to reclaim our identity before we leave this earth dear David, I really enjoyed your poem today :)
To Be A Grain (Poetry) - 1/21/2024 12:19:29 PM
All poets fade and die. But the ones savvy to the 21st-century have posted their poems online where they will float for a very long time. But only until AI has no more use and/or the fragile HTML code and links that made them come to life get corrupted by radiation like miniature meteorites, will they be gone.
But if repeated, copied or made famous, to live on forever in the author's name.
Ron
Frozen Reflections (Poetry) - 1/17/2024 12:22:29 PM
Much better if you delete the last 2 stanzas.
Ron
Nothing Begets Nothing (Poetry) - 1/9/2024 12:53:13 PM
Most of those deaths were to young men who were just coming into adulthood and would never know their full potential as men in a world they would never knew. Giving up their lives for old men Trump-eting their ability to avoid war by throwing young men and women into it.
Ron
DD214 2024 TYFYS NUTS (Poetry) - 1/6/2024 12:23:02 PM
People are certainly crazy when they follow Trump rather than paying attention to what he wants to do to our society with his greed.
Ron
Anon-O-Mouse Christmas Present (Poetry) - 12/25/2023 8:52:44 AM
Quite a collection of poetic anger. Something is rotten in the state of Denmark wherein free-speech is infringed upon in the name of selfish greed.
Ron
Thank You For Your Service Christmas 2023 NUTS: One To Ten (Poetry) - 12/16/2023 10:06:02 AM
I'm sure DoD knows of you. One day you may be taken to the White House and given the credit you need to receive for your standing up for disabled Vietnam veterans everywhere.
You outdid yourself with this one. I believe I've seen that cannon at the Texas state capital when I was there protesting. Great idea to pose with it.
Ron
See Shore Swirls (Poetry) - 12/14/2023 1:57:39 PM
The medium is not important, but the message is. The message should never be deleted or not allowed to move forward, regardless of its flaws.
Ron
DD214 Copyright Infringement Part One (Poetry) - 12/5/2023 12:42:29 PM
I'm not sure how your discharge papers caused you to lose your Facebook privileges or even your email. But if they were taken from you illegally, I would suggest you go to the nearest veterans' legal aid firm or disability (ADA) law firm and see what your legal rights are to sue Facebook or META for wrongly dropping you from the rolls.
Ron
RIP Van Winkle Dye Christmas Miracle Part One (Poetry) - 11/29/2023 12:21:22 PM
I feel your pain. There are lots of vets out there willing to help. In all these years I've never had your email address or any correspondence with you. That is unfortunate.
But as a disabled veteran, there is hope that some Veterans' foundations may find you have someone they would want to help. To begin with, just establish a Go Fund Me account to gather funds for the house next door and use straight English language while doing so. Who knows, it may work.
I'm in no position financially to donate to anyone this year, but I might consider a few bucks if you would establish that GoFundMe.com fund. Or better yet, have one of your longtime friends do it for you.
Ron
Heart Beats TAPS RIP Van Winkle (Poetry) - 11/26/2023 8:24:03 AM
I care and comment, because a veteran mistreated for speaking out under the First Amendment is really unfair and should be understood by everyone. I believe your fans are there. But once in a while you need to reach out to them personally and thank them for following you in your quest for justice and liberty for all, not just those for the confines of the righteous right.
Ron
META Pledge Of Allegiance To The US Constitution (Poetry) - 11/13/2023 11:57:27 AM
Franklin Doppelgänger is still there, but you're right about there being nothing for David Lester Young.
You may have a case for lawsuit.
Ron
The Circle The Center The Compass The Spokes Of Country Music (Poetry) - 11/7/2023 11:12:22 AM
This poem does have a lyrical quality. However, country songs generally have to be very simple and straightforward and not have any poetic twists unless they have meaning to the song that makes it endearing. Words like elocution may work in your realm of poetry, but words like that don't resonate with people who listen to country music.
Ron
Veteran Past Present Pyre Presence (Poetry) - 11/3/2023 1:27:51 PM
Very well stated and what is wrong with Congress today. Either inaction or action in the direction of preserving wealth and controlling the rest of us with archaic rules that inhibit the average person's ability to be free and move ahead in life.
I don't understand why so many people don't get it. Instead, like sleepwalkers, just go along with the status quo without thinking about the consequences.
Ron
Center Of Thy Heart (Poetry) - 10/27/2023 11:08:01 AM
Good Job Dave !
Love conquers All 👍💙
Center Of Thy Heart (Poetry) - 10/18/2023 9:18:49 AM
Certainly with romantic overtones, but could be a little bit more lyrical to carry a tune.
Ron
Center Of Thy Heart (Poetry) - 10/17/2023 9:53:27 AM
Very nice romantic song, David!
Sandie
HeART Of America (Poetry) - 10/13/2023 10:49:52 AM
Almost as good (with a few lyrical changes) as anything Bruce Springsteen, Lee Greenwood, Ray Charles, Neil iDamond or a number of others ever wrote or sang.
Ron
RIP Van Winkle Jungle Boots Veteran (Poetry) - 10/12/2023 9:23:56 AM
A great way to turn those hateful words into positive words of democratic ideal.
Ron
Too Fear Dye Future Demise (Poetry) - 10/11/2023 2:36:22 PM
No "self-doubts" have captured this "HeArtMosphere Poet"
Jungle Boots Veteran, that's for sure! He has seen much
more than mere mortals can only have nightmares of. Write on, Poet!
Love ya!
Jane
A Lone Salutation (Poetry) - 10/9/2023 8:03:36 AM
I believe I understand where you are coming from. I might suggest just drinking plain water might solve some of the other problems. Lemonade has acetic acid and sugar in it. And the ingredients in Coke with its sugar replacements and claim of zero calories has never been healthy.
Although, Hugh Hefner lived until his mid 90s and had children in his 80s drinking as many as 52 Pepsis a day! ;-)
Ron
Wandering Rhyme Pondering Time (Poetry) - 10/8/2023 9:04:40 AM
My suggestion would be to make sure that you include a representation of your various forms of poetry but avoid poems that are repetitious of others.
Poetry books don't sell, but a book would be a part of your legacy for so many veteran families who need to know the kinds of challenges that faced Vietnam veterans when returning from that war unappreciated for having been snatched up by the draft, yet doing their part in trying to maintain democracy in the place where so many were denying democracy. And then, to come home to no respect.
Ron
In Tense Terse Thunder (Poetry) - 10/7/2023 10:55:44 AM
We certainly hope that our verses strike like lightning and I heard like thunder. And in the present tense rather than from the distant past where mistakes never have been fully corrected but are still honored as true for today, falsely.
Ron
A Lone Wasteland Voyage (Poetry) - 10/2/2023 11:45:30 AM
A journey that has to be traveled, I guess.
The only thing I would change to keep the alliteration would be to change in the fourth line of the first stanza, the word, Lit, with lift…
Ron
Americas Amazing Grace Miracle (Poetry) - 9/30/2023 10:37:36 AM
A rousing call for Congress to work on behalf of the people instead of their wealthy benefactors.
I particularly liked your irreverent stanza four where you relate skin color to excrement color. ;-)
In 1776, a good number of the colonists were still loyal to England and constituted almost a majority of the population. The Loyalists often fought for the British in the long war of attrition where Britain finally gave up and the loyalists, for the most part, came over on the side of American democracy reluctantly, making sure there was a electoral college to ensure that the Senate, modeled after the House of Lords, still had power in the new American government.
Ron
Inception Reception Dejection (Poetry) - 9/27/2023 9:05:42 AM
This poem clearly states what is wrong with our representative democratic republic and why, in this great country, the rich continue to get richer and the poor slide further into poverty with their voices censored for wanting to be heard.
I would suggest eBay or Craigslist for your no longer needed hardware.
Ron
Clarity of Utter Confusion (Poetry) - 9/26/2023 9:27:13 AM
Both your 2012 poem that I believe I remember as well as this one are not really confusing are caused by confusion. They are just normal results of our stream of consciousness. We all experienced a certain amount mixed feelings.
You use those mixed feelings very well in your poetry. In this last poem is a huge leap from what you have been writing… I appreciate you moving into it.
Ron
Found Bound Sounds (Poetry) - 9/25/2023 10:45:42 AM
I read your earlier poem Chinese style and found that you wrote the same and differently in the past. And in this poem, today, you return to a similar poem to that one of the past with no date. A refreshing change of approach after you have made your point quite clearly about the injustices that you have encountered as a veteran of the finest army in the world, but lacking the benefits, thereof.
Ron
RIP Van Wrinkle Sunday Mourning Blues (Poetry) - 9/24/2023 9:19:12 AM
The American dream has always been a contrived one. Where everyone who feels they are American can find comfort. Except for those who seem to be outside of that dream like you. And because of the divisiveness of our national government, duplicated by the state governments, little is being done about very dangerous climate change and the separation the rich and the poor.
May we come to our senses and remove all of the controlling old bastards from their high places of judgment and control
Ron
Why Do We Believe (Poetry) - 9/23/2023 8:48:35 AM
To believe in oneself is perhaps the greatest of all desires. To get beyond coping and actually conquer our world that seems to be against us at every turn. Countless gurus and life coaches have turned negative thinking into positive thinking. But we can do it on our own. Particularly, to our health.
Once we are healthy everything else is easier to handle.
Ron
Oh Lonely Tear (Poetry) - 9/22/2023 1:00:23 PM
Sometimes, tears can be a release of our stress. To cry does not mean we are weak. To cry is to let go of the stress that has been building up inside us. We all are fighting a personal battle that only we know, and others don't know.
Sandie
The Temperature Of Lust And The Temperatures Of Love 2002 (Poetry) - 9/12/2023 9:07:52 AM
Quackers started a rage that filled the oceans with plastic, plastic… Plastic. What have you done little one… Quack, quack, quack!
Your poem of love and lust was very insightful and described very well be turmoil of the difficulty of finding and maintaining a good relationship with those you love. Well done.
Ron
Just Plain Feeling High 2002 (Poetry) - 9/11/2023 11:14:20 AM
Reads like getting high on drugs. But I believe it was merely how you felt entirely in control of your life at that time.
Is that a surgical scar on your knee? Or do I have the picture wrong?
Ron
Butterfly Poet (Poetry) - 9/9/2023 7:34:17 AM
A refreshing change. The butterflies in the hill country are far more prevalent than down here in the bayou country of Houston where all the bayous are now just concrete ditches. Write more fly like a butterfly and less sting like a bee.
Ron
Vietnam Jungle Boots (Poetry) - 9/7/2023 12:49:05 PM
The last stanza speaks a terrible truth.
Those boots will make someone some fine outdoor footwear unless some long lost snake or scorpion are still residing inside? Left over jungle rot or soldier's foot? ;-)
Ron
RIP American Pride (Poetry) - 9/5/2023 9:44:41 AM
I hope you soon will be rich and able to buy what you need in the tough Austin real estate market.
Ron
Poet Termination DeTermination Resignation Part Twenty (Poetry) - 8/26/2023 1:50:15 PM
You already know how I feel. I respect you immensely! A few friends of mine got hit with agent orange, including my husband. Let Biden and Putin go duke it out if they have issues. That's the way it should be. Have a duel, for heavens sake!!
Always,
Jane
Poet Termination DeTermination Resignation Part Twenty (Poetry) - 8/26/2023 11:06:48 AM
You are right about four-year college and white-collar deferments. The very people that sent others to do their dirty work in the jungle of Vietnam and deserts of the Middle East.
Proving that we have a caste society like India while calling everyone equal under the law. It's a shame you had to go through what you have.
Ron
Poet Termination DeTermination Resignation Part Seventeen (Poetry) - 8/20/2023 9:11:10 AM
Less rant and much more seasoned truth in this condensed version of what America has come to be under the use and misuse of veterans like yourself. We certainly need much less 1% control of our government and much more 100% of all citizens feeling free to voice their opinions under the First Amendment without recourse from gatekeepers of ancient wisdom that no longer applies.
Ron
What Lies In Man Kind (Poetry) - 8/19/2023 9:32:30 AM
Brilliant poem, very powerfully expressed, and a loud whistle that needs to be heeded if we want out stay out of that dark and lifeless basement, and to flourish in the true Light. Thanks for sharing your heart!
-David Clure
Poet Termination DeTermination Resignation Part Fourteen (Poetry) - 8/16/2023 7:55:51 AM
You are absolutely right in that first line. Most Americans these days have a lottery choice rather than the American dream. There but for fortune of making the "right" choices most now end up in a struggle, late in life. Forced into poverty by the ultrarich greed, not sharing the wealth but claiming that everyone can become wealthy. A totally false notion these days.
Finally, following the old tradition of writing on napkins some of your best work, it is sad that you are unable to scan them and that they are so fragile. Perhaps you could rewrite them? Take a picture with a cell phone?
Most of my earlier poems from high school and college have simply been thrown away as having no value other than their initial intent. That is my regret now that I have so many poems online. Those poems should be here, too, but I did not recognize their value at the time. Perhaps, why I made some wrong decisions about my life early on so that the crapshoot dealt me where I am. Fortunately, in a good place, largely because of one amazing lady that never gives up on me.
Run
Poet Termination DeTermination Resignation Part Thirteen (Poetry) - 8/13/2023 11:26:51 AM
As always, telling it like it is. I hope they are reading and understanding you. You are right in many don't want to face the truth like you have to every day.
Ron
Poet Termination DeTermination Resignation Part Twelve (Poetry) - 8/12/2023 11:36:57 AM
Glad you have it all back in your bungalow to sort. But we are in a bit of coal-fired largess Ercot crisis in the Lone Star State. Recommended we turn our thermostats up 2 to 3°. Mine is at 81° and I find it quite comfortable.
Ron
Can I Touch You So Soft (Poetry) - 8/7/2023 2:25:19 PM
A wonderful anniversary poem before circumstances changed your poetic voice.
Ron
Poet Termination DeTermination Resignation Part Four (Poetry) - 8/4/2023 1:33:17 PM
While I read it all before, I'm just now learning the score. Your employer actually order you not to write poetry at home or during your break time? There's a class-action lawsuit there somewhere.
Ron
Poet Termination DeTermination Resignation Part Three (Poetry) - 8/4/2023 9:28:45 AM
Having had a few Nam Veterans in the family, I have visited the V.A. Mental Hospital, gone with a couple of brothers to the V.A. Hospital in Cleveland for Agent Orange afflictions...................you Vets should have gold spread before you!!! I really get heated up about this matter so I'll stop writing for now.
Love ya!
Jane
Poet Termination DeTermination Resignation Part Four (Poetry) - 8/4/2023 9:05:31 AM
While reading this write, the song, "Brotherhood of Man" began running through my mind. Excellent ink, David!!
Love ya!
Jane
Yellow Haze (Poetry) - 8/2/2023 10:47:48 AM
What an ordeal at your age with all of your problems! I hope you can finish without further breakdown of your equipment, get back to Austin with everything intact, and safely and well. Later, be able to sort through what you want and what you will need to save of your lost American dream .
I can identify with you. Barely able to walk, with my girlfriend unable to go with me or have her sons help me, I drove from Houston to Atlanta to my dream home I had to abandoned 10 years earlier in 1990. I rented a U-Haul trailer and worried about my newly overhauled 17-year-old engine while getting 6 miles to the gallon returning. It was a really hot Labor Day and an exhausting trip. Luckily, an immigrant graduate assistant law school student from Africa, pitched in with a friend and got it all into my house. I couldn't even carry a 10 pound box.
It took two months with caregiver help from July through September 1993 to sort through everything and throw away hundreds of pounds of papers, keeping only my articles and published works. Later, like you, I had to sell the dream house in 2001 after 20 years. In an electric wheelchair, I could no longer navigate its five levels anyway.
Ron
Miracle On 35Th Street Section One (Poetry) - 7/25/2023 9:48:05 AM
I know how you feel. When I was fired "at will" it took me 10 years to recover my furniture and belongings from the basement of my house in Atlanta.
There was a flood about 1 inch in the basement during the second year caused by a plug in my water line break. Fortunately, all of my papers were placed high enough on furniture to survive. But I lost the only camera I was able to use with some photos on the film because it was in a suitcase on the floor. Everything in the suitcase was badly mildewed.
Ron
RIP Poet Tree (Poetry) - 7/10/2023 2:27:32 PM
Vietnam War… Unnecessary second Iraqi War… Unnecessary Afghani War… Unnecessary. Strategic strikes on the leaders of cults like Al Qaeda and ISIS… Necessary and far less costly in terms of armaments and human life. Mostly, innocent bystanders… Conveniently called "collateral damage."
And, of all the soldiers gone to war and returned, so many maimed emotionally, psychologically and physically to have a hard time adjusting to the fast-paced dog eat dog characteristic of corporate power mongering and greed over caring and compassion.
Thank you for your service platitudes without any real action.
Ron
Sword Of Words (Poetry) - 7/8/2023 11:42:01 AM
The sword of words you yield cuts deep into what is festering in this country. Keep up the good pen and never let it go to Mammon.
Ron
Poet Who Made Thee (Poetry) - 7/5/2023 8:24:35 AM
Great paraphrasing of William Blake. And a wonderful way to pay tribute to 4 July our country's birth.
Ron
Lamb Of GOD Bless America (Poetry) - 7/3/2023 7:49:34 AM
The sword of God bless America has been wielded by the Supreme Court and the people suffer for it. The People's Court is out of sync with society.
Ron
