It was for you...

for You

why wouldn’t I write poetry about You?
Why did I go this long without uttering words of praise
And awe and gratitude towards You?

All this time, I have written about anger and fear
About men About love
About loves labors lost
Trying to imitate Shakespeare
And others
Trying to imitate myself.

When the authentic thing finally pushed through

 It was for You, God. Always for You.

[from a commenter on this blog...]

In Flanders Fields

In Flanders Fields

 

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved, and now we lie,

In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

               —Attributed to John McCrae (1872-1918).

THE GREAT WAR
(1914 - 1918)

The Story Of Sh*t

Talkin’ Sh*t

Anonymous e-mail (edited by BFH)

The folks who are getting free shit don’t like the folks
who are paying for the free shit because the folks who are paying for
the free shit can no longer afford to pay for both the free shit and
their own shit. And this is creating a shitstorm.

The folks who are paying for the free shit want the free
shit to stop, and the the folks who are getting the free shit want even
more free shit on top of the free shit they are already getting.

Now, the people who are forcing the people who pay for the
free shit have told the people who are receiving the free shit that
the people who are paying for the free shit are the problem.

So, the people who are getting the free shit resent the people who are paying for the free shit because of the smears by the people who are forcing other people to pay for the free shit.

Can you believe this shit?
We have let the free shit giving go on for so long that there
are now more people getting free shit than paying for the free shit.

Now understand this, all great democracies have committed
financial suicide somewhere between 200 and 250 years after being
founded. The reason? The voters figure out they could vote themselves
free shit by electing people who promised to give them
free shit in exchange for electing them.

The United States officially became a Republic in 1776, 231
years ago. The number of people now getting free shit outnumber the
people paying for the free shit. We have one chance to change that in
2012. Failure to change that spells the end of the United States as we
know it.

ELECTION 2012 IS COMING

Vote the Shit Out

Vote a Conservative In

[no sh*t!]

In memory of love

In a breath it can all change. Everything that we thought was important becomes frivolous, unmemorable. It only takes a single act, a moment– and life has passed. It happens so suddenly some times that we are left to wonder, what happened — and where did it go...In that fleeting moment, I could see him standing there, lumionous, hands pressed together, and a smile that melted tears. It was fleeting, but it was real.

When I’m not trying to overthrow a corrupt government, I cook–and write, among other gentle things. I’m all about spreading holiday cheer–...The driveway up the mountain to my home is a steady, long and steep climb–anyone who makes it deserves to have something lovely awaiting them at the top.--Peppermint Patty