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Photo: Dwight L. Roth
Birds fly into my window from time to time crashing into a sky of glass and an image of illusion. Stunned they fall to the ground or circle back to the trees, only to do it over again on another sunny day. Being territorial they are trying to attack the illusion of another bird intruding into their territory, and only hurt themselves in the process.
Seems we are seeing this play out today in DC, as our Lame-Duck President continually tries to incite followers to attack the illusion of an intruder stealing his space. Over and over he keeps hitting the glass sky and is now looking like that stunned bird that hit my window.
Protesters gather
Attacking an illusion
Stunned bird thinks he won
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The communist leader, Khrushchev once said
“We will destroy America, not with guns and missiles,
we will destroy America (with a revolution) from within!”
Little did he know the effects of future social media.
His prophesy seems to be coming true as we grow apart.
Divide and conquer // a long held strategy, seems to work;
Who needs guns and missiles when we do it to ourselves?
Perhaps it is time to lay down our tongues of war
Our hateful politics, our social judgments, our racial biases
and our Holier than thou Religion.
Time to quit feeding on only what is being fed to us by
our enemies on social media and the News talking heads.
We are in a war for our lives, both physically and politically.
We have spent the last twenty plus years refusing to co-operate;
Being fed misinformation and devouring twisted truth.
Maybe it really is time to sing Kum Ba Ya together…
To listen to one another // to learn to compromise
and in my own naïve way, believe it can happen…
Before it is too late!
Photo taken at the Mutart Conservatory in Edmonton, AB – Dwight L. Roth
Merril at d’Verse, has has asked us to write about revolution, This poem goes to back to a time when the Cold War with Russia was at it’s peak. Long before many of our younger blogers were born, the Russians were in the business of revolution. They suceeded in Cuba and were ready to plant missles there until JFK gave them an ultimatum. The desire to cause revolution in this country is very real and is being fed by our social media every day. It is time to use common sense and quite being manipulated by what we feed on.
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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.
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With the new election year coming up, I thought this little rerun jab might wake us up!
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My wife accused me of repeating myself every time I watch a news broadcast. I keep hearing them talk over and over again about “what they don’t know.” To me this means they are making it up as they go along. In the age of 24 Hour News and TV Tabloids, a lot is left for speculation and truth. This poem expresses my feelings about the Fake News of the day. See what you think!?
When the news anchor begins with…
“What we don’t know is…”
I know we are in trouble
Made up stories of speculative imagination
Conjured up // supporting a biased point of view
Not based on facts or real evidence
But rather…On “What we don’t know is…”
It is not hard to see why many tune out…
When news of the day is simply “educated gossip.”
Why not just stick to the facts of the day
Let the listener do the speculation and deduction
News used to be about what happened
Now it is about, “How do you feel about what happened”
With demands for admission of guilt…
Tried by the media in the court of public opinion
Followed by firings….
Followed by apologies… Some accepted and some denied.
Is the world worse than it used to be?
Perhaps, but I believe it appears that way
Because now we see everything that goes on
Often in real time captured on smart phones
Instead of seeing our junk that happens
We see everyone else’s bad news
Exponential crime and debauchery day after day
Is it no wonder that such negative attitudes prevail?
Good new is often relegated to the last 60seconds of the newscast
Sort of like getting a lollipop at the dentist
After he has done a root canal on you
If you still listen to the news, ask yourself…
Am I hearing the facts or “What they don’t know?”
When “What we don’t know is…” becomes the truth of the day
We are all in trouble … it really is fake news!!
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News Logos: Bing images
Perhaps the truth you choose to believe
Depends on which side of the Elephant you stand
Some at the head and get whipped around by the trunk
Those who are left stand at the rear constantly shoveling
Those on the side see a vast nearsighted nothingness
But // beware of the feet //for they will stomp you flat
In the everchanging tide of strong divisive opinion
It is sometimes hard to tell left from right
Truth seems to be whatever we make it to be
This is nothing new // we’re always in a stew
A few short years ago it all depended on
Which side of the Donkey you stood on on
With very similar results
Only shoveled from those who were right.
We’re reminded daily of fake news being spread
So // how does one know truth from fiction // gossip from facts
The answer is in no way clear
For me it all seems to be a lot of ES…DS…and BS … and now TS
I don’t think social media is a friend of our society
Its aim is to distort, divide, keep us in fractured turmoil
For me // give me a ten-page newspaper with comics in the back
A Look or Life magazine with mostly photos and a few facts
Filter out the most important things and let the rest go
Let those in charge do their job // if not the next vote will show
There’s a world of mess out there that I don’t need to know
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Three Blind Men and an Elephant: baikesoukou.com
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I guess you can tell from this one my age is telling on me.
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