With the Impeachment hearings going full throttle, it seems everyone parrots an opinion. It once again brings to mind a poem I wrote during the last election campaign. As the political circus plays out on TV, nothing is ever as it seems. Our representative share with us on a need to know basis, and the news media shares on an everything you don’t want to know and more basis. I will be glad when this reality TV “Survivor” show runs its course, and congressional parrots go back in their cage to work at getting things done for the American people.
Politics
A circus of smoke and mirrors
Half-truths polished and shiny
Stretching every word out of context
Smoke screens of the insignificant
Always hiding reality
Behind a cover of lies
Showing only fragments
Promising pots of gold
At the end of the rainbow
False hope in a holey bucket
Filled with wishes and fantasies
Pouring steadily out the bottom
Mirrors in a TV funhouse of fright
Giving only distorted views
Twisting everything out of proportion
Don’t believe the hype
Look beyond the smoke and mirrors
Dig out the shreds of truth
Always remember
What you see is NOT what you will get
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Dwight, I liked your intro and your poem. Did you mean to shape your poem to look like a bottle of snake oil on purpose?
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Ha, ha, no I hadn’t noticed! It must have been providential!
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uh-huh 🙂
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it really does have that shape! I love it!
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Nice last line and this one “Smoke screens of the insignificant”.
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Seems that is the way it too often goes!
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We are going through a similar circus here, though for different reasons. I refuse to be in rooms with a TV set.
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I try not to watch any of it! It is such a repetitious drone!
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Reblogged this on Reena Saxena.
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Excellent poem on these dreadful times. Well done Dwight.
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Thank you Linda. Sadly it seems so….
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It is incredibly exhausting. You’ve captured it well.
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Thank you. It really is a circus!
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Awesome post, Dwight!! I really loved the truth in this!!!
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Thank you Chuck. This is a repost from earlier. I just had to bring it around once more.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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This is incredibly potent. I resonate with; “Twisting everything out of proportion.”
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Thank you for commenting. I usually steer away from politics, but it is getting to extreme here in the states. It is time for a change of thinking and acting.
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And in the end, the only result is that we cease to care, and then they can get by with anything
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So true! very sad indeed!
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Thank you for your comments. I am glad it connected with you!
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