Na/GloPoWriMo #21: In Believing We Can by Michael Doyle
In today, I see tomorrow In today, perched as it is In today, seated on the edge In today, formed by yesterday
Answers needed to questions Answers in need of themselves Answers that go unanswered Answers we still need to find
Are we smarter than yesterday? Are we smarter if we stay the course? Are we smarter if we ask deeper? Are we smarter if we start in belief?
That with hard work, we become complete That with hard work, we are replete That with hard work, we find our journey That with hard work, our journey will be done
Life will win when love is the answer Life will win when we let go of hate Life will win in accepting difference as more Life will win when we allow entrance to the door
There into the ways of opportunity There into the ways of dignity There into the ways that offer best equity There into the ways that extinguish the vanity
That believes that only we truly known That believes society can truly grow That believes that while the journey is long That believes in the end we all truly belong
(c) April 21, 2021 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“What I find extremely offensive is the narrative from the left that black people are not smart enough, not educated enough … to do what every other culture and race does in this country: get an ID.” -Congressman Burgess Owens
Na/GloPoWriMo #20: Sijo For An Ill Turned Vaccination by Michael Doyle
Father, will you be alright? But of course, I will my dears With one hundred three point three, who might I fooling? The fire blazes hot inside, but not as deep as my love for you two
Father, are you sleeping too much? Only as much as I need to We are worried, Dad! Should we call our mother or just wait? I have had worse and will be fine given a bit more of time
Father, are you feeling better? My temperature says that I am fine Do not worry about a thing, daughters of love and sunshine It will take more than this vaccine when I have you two to love
(c) April 20, 2021 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
“The ordaining of laws in favor of one part of the nation, to the prejudice and oppression of another, is certainly the most erroneous and mistaken policy. An equal dispensation of protection, rights, privileges, and advantages, is what every part is entitled to, and ought to enjoy.” – Benjamin Franklin (1774)
Na/GloPoWriMo #19: St Patrick's Day Kiss by Michael Doyle
Like a lucky man wondering if You'd always be My lucky charm Living in a moment's bliss It was easy to see Another kiss could do no harm
Gotta phone that message in Let it ring true, again and again Long distance strikes at connection All the same it lends affection Doing our solitary in isolation Until we find that choice destination
Where together begins its walk And love is more than talk Two hearts beat in that together Needing the love of the better Seen in each other's loving eyes Where intention meets our sighs
Where our hands begin to meet Is the the touch to my heart, so sweet Finding love on an old Irish street Your song knows my soul and is complete In your cup of sweetness I need to borrow I will gladly return this to you in our tomorrows
(c) April 19, 2021 Michael Doyle All Rights Reserved
Maybe it’s “the soft bigotry of low expectations” that has afforded Maxine Waters the megaphone through which she blasts her hatred and anger spewed absurdities? I am not wise enough to know. Nor, do I know enough about her to understand where all her racial animus comes from. Her spewing litany of grievances has passed a line into jury intimidation.
“Waters joined hundreds of angry protesters who thronged Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, early Sunday, all breaking the 11 p.m. curfew together during the seventh night of protests against the police killing of Daunte Wright. ‘We’ve got to stay in the streets, and we’ve got to demand justice,’ she urged the crowd, according to one tweeted clip. ‘We’re looking for a guilty verdict’ in Derek Chauvin’s trial for the police killing of George Floyd, where deliberations will begin next week, she said. ‘And if we don’t, we cannot go away,’ she added. ‘We’ve got to get more confrontational.'”
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) and Georgia Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene have announced separate efforts to seek disciplinary action for Waters many attempts at incitement of violence. This seems appropriate and just.
House Rule 23, clause 1, states in its pertinent part, “A Member, Delegate, Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall conduct himself at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.” Calling on BLM and related domestic terrorists to fire gunshots at National Guardsmen certainly cannot be construed in any rational sense to reflect creditably on the House.
“Telling rioters who have burned buildings, looted stores, and assaulted journalists to get ‘more confrontational’ is incredibly irresponsible” states Mike Berg, on behalf of the National Republican Congressional Committee
In determining if the appropriateness of expulsion from the House, we might well consider Ms. Waters’ own words regarding another. In supporting the wrong minded second impeachment of then President Trump, Waters wrongfully accused him of ‘inciting’ his followers and “trying to create a civil war”. There is little doubt that in this current episode that the record is incredibly clear and recorded before the world that Ms. Waters has sought to do those very things that she falsely accused sitting President Trump of doing. As the facts have become known, we now know that Ms. Waters knew the falsity of her accusations against former President Trump. By her own standards, Maxine Water’s is required to be impeached and removed from her office.
Please write your congressperson and Senator to support these efforts against Maxine Waters as she has repeatedly committed these same offenses.
Remember her incitement on June 23, 2018?
“Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere!”
Ms. Waters has repetitively been recorded in numerous racist statements and in the incitement of violence against her political opposition. It is time to remove her from office and reduce the hateful rhetoric of her inflammatory remarks. America needs to walk away from the increasingly strident polarization that those like Ms. Water uses to increase anger and hatred in a society that is fracturing before our very eyes. The only way we do this is by equal application of the law against such persons.
“Happily for mankind, liberty is not, in this respect, confined to any single point of time, but lies within extremes, which afford sufficient latitude for all the variations which may be required by the various situations and circumstances of civil society.”– James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 53, 1788
Heading out of Australia to escape this Aussie winter. First stop Japan, then UK/Ireland and if work doesn't call me back, onto Chicago. I will make it up as I go along
