How can it be possible… Right and Left/
Smart and educated though they may be,
See each other as totally bereft;
Stonewalling opponents cheering with glee.
Animosity grows with each debate;
Politics boil cauldrons of despair.
Totally different agendas await;
Dividing our country with rifts and tears.
One would think // if they set aside their pride/
That intelligent thinking, from both sides,
Could result in a list of good choices;
Making all of us glad to hear their voices!
How can it be possible… Right and Left/
Have choked and copped out // when put to the test.
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Photo: Dwight L. Roth
This is my second attempt at writing a Sonnet for d’Verse Poets Pub… One with a political twist.
Now I have gone back to revise and include enjambment. Jilly asked us to included punctuation and wrap around lines, hopefully making it have a more readable flow!
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Quality stuff to read on early morning !! Sir
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Thank you! We are seeing this play out in real time here in the US.
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Ohhhh amazing experience naa to see it live
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Dysfunctional Government! Everything is polarized!
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Coooool !!
Have a great time gentleman ☺️
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Thank you Nirant. You may call me Dwight! :>)
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Words of wisdom. Politics is pretty dysfunctional these days. Too much right and too much left. Where’s the middle?
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We have turned both Right and Left into negative dirty words! That is why I changed to an Independent!
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Thanks for your comment!
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Excellent sonnet, Dwight! Such sad politics though!
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Thank you Miriam. I appreciate your kind affirmation!
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You’re welcome, Dwight. I’ve done sonnet, I think there’s one in my new poetry book.
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I am just beginning with this form. I never got into poetry until the past few years, so most everything I am learning here at d’Verse is a new experience for me.
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I should head over to check it out. Colleen’s weekly challenge has several poetry forms also.
I have written several poetry forms. It was fun.
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Yes, I love the challenge.
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Would you like to check out my two-month old book and write a short review? I’m looking for more book reviews on the e-Book version on Amazon. I can gift a book to you. I haven’t tried but there’s button to click for doing that.
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Sure I would love to read your book! Let me know how to get it. I gave up my kindle subscription a couple of years ago. I was not using it enough to make worthwhile!
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I could send you a PDF file and you just click the Kindle version to write a review. I should have your email address in the WP comment.
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Send it to dwru27@aol.com
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Okay. I’ll do it right now.
WP is changed. It doesn’t show email addresses anymore.
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I have a few books on Amazon Kindle as well. Just look under my name and they will come up.
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I’ll look them up under your name.
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Thanks
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You’re welcome,
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Very sad… what is going on in politics! When will they ever learn??
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Too many personal agenda!
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To heart of the matter Dwight – right to the heart and soul of it. The old guard politicians and businessmen who now run this country are viscious, power hungry, money grabbing, assholes, who could not care less about the common person, or the needs of those of us that they consider inferior, disposable pawns in their evil, demagogical game of fantasy – in which they see themselves as gods, accountable to no one. In our naïveté we have allowed ourselves to be manipulated into giving them the hammers of tyranny with which they will beat us into absolute submission. And the reason this will in fact really happen, is that the dancing puppets, who make up the majority of the population of this country – are too weak, or ignorant, or hate filled, or bamboozled to believe it, or even see it – as playes out in real time daily before their veiled eyes. We as a country, are falling like the Roman empire. The dangerous and frightening dufference, is that the enemy is at the head of the table, and we fools put them there. By the way – Happy New Year Dwight, may 2019 bring you joy and peace.
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Thank you for your heartfelt comments. I agree that what’s happening is not what’s going on! We only see the superficial things. When we lived in Eastern NC, the locals used to make what they called “hushpuppies” that are corn bread sticks or biscuits that they would toss to the puppies under the table to keep them quiet! (they are very good by the way) This is what I see happening in politics. They throw us some hushpuppies to keep us from making noise about what is really going on.
Thanks and Happy New Year to you as well!!
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Sorry if I seemed negative Dwight.
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I understand!
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So timely. I wholeheartedly agree. If both sides can find a middle ground, and truly seek that middle ground, more can be accomplished and people will not be as polarized as they are now. I have just been in this country for 15 years, and to this day, I am still shocked at how divided this country is. It seems like there is a war not with bullets but with ideas. How easily people toss words like bigoted and hateful without really analyzing the complete situation. Those words seemed to have become reflex words. But then again, who am I to complain. My own country of origin has the same concerns.
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The desire to be in control seems to be born into us from childhood. Compromise take work. Thank you for your thoughtful and wise comments.
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Politics should be about finding a middle ground, to agree where you can… but it seems when all is about “winning” it doesn’t matter that everything else goes down the drain just so you can declare yourself victorious.
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Very sad!
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Well stated, Dwight! Some past presidents and their friends recently have worked really hard to develop a divided, contentious, “victimized” society, and this anarchy is what we get. We should all be working toward a GOOD society with personal freedom within the law, not necessarily the middle of the road between anarchy and what is Constitutional.
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You have said it very well!
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Well said. We need to be smarter than the people who are trying to tear us apart and divide us. We must respect each other and work together for a better country and world!
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Thank you! Think how much we would benefit if we learned to compromise!
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First of all, nice flow in this sonnet. I am admiring those who have mastered the meter. American politics have become an entity that overshadows reason and humanity. The shadow looms to my own country as we are inundated with the likes of it in the media and fear for the effects it is having on the world.
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Good description: “Politics boil cauldrons of despair”
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seems to be the case on both sides!
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A political sonnet, why not? It makes you think and wish politics should have more to do with poetry. I totally enjoyed it. Well done! 🙂
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Thank You! I am glad you enjoyed it…sad as it is! Perhaps we should get the President to write poetry instead of going on twitter! :>)
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Ah, a Pandora’s crate of a sonnet. For every one of us who see the wisdom of your verses, there are others who believe the world worse is. Before I write a stroke about politics, I am more likely to head for the safer soils of determinism vs. free will and Ford vs. Chevy. But then, you know… I’m not much for stirring things up. … Great sonnet, ‘though; both how it’s writ and what it says.
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Thanks Charley! I tend to enjoy a good debate when it is something I feel strongly about! I should have put the ending of my first sonnet at the end of this one!!
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I like the discussion you started with this political sonnet…I wrote something similar! Yes, cooperation is necessary.
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Thanks Lynn. It is interesting. I will check yours out!
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It’s not much better in the UK at the moment. I swear politicians are more interested in scoring points against each other than actually working for the good of the country.
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Seems that way everywhere!
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What hope is there then.
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One question… one letter… one calling to task at a time repeated again and again. It does seem like a bleak outlook.
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But perhaps it always has and that’s what stops us from becoming complacent and drive us to demand change
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“Politics boil cauldrons of despair” – That’s the truth! I also love the way you ended this.
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Thank you Sara for your kind response!
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Intelligent thinking from both sides? Maybe therein is the problem. Nice sonnet!
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Thank you very much! One would think we would learn after a while.
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Politics is much on our minds, how can we escape it? The sonnet always seems a good form for commentary, and it works well here. (K)
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Thanks. It seems to be a solid and predictable way of writing poetry! Unlike politics!!
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Timely and heartfelt, Dwight. I like the photo, too.
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Thanks Merril, for stopping by and commenting! It is sad sometimes when Adults act like children in a sand box each wanting their own way!
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Yes, it is–especially when it affects an entire country.
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