http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/poetry-bloggers/ en-us Thu, 9 Oct 2008 01:51:06 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2101000/posts The earth was flipped from suspension when women quit being girls; For, with well thought intention, bad folks changed all the world. Girls used to be women. Women used to be ladies. Ladies used to be beautiful, And beauty used to be feminine. Soon paychecks were the standard By which their sex was empowered; “Motherhood” was a thing marred: The patriarchy had showered Its auspice all over the female To keep them under its thumbs; Disgruntled young ladies fought sans fail: To men no girl should succumb. Minority leaders decided That equality wasn’t there. So from men they were divided... Elective Decisions http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2101000/posts#comment Thu, 9 Oct 2008 01:51:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2093695/posts Great men two hundred years ago brought fourth this Godly nation. They fought for what is true and right to summon liberation. A free Market with free speech was the new configuration— For which patriot fathers died—For Our Unified Nation. But with time came Marx, a man possessed with killing corporation; And soon Russia fell to riots, birthing collectivization. Tens of millions died in murders wrought from commie motivation; And indeed those commies changed the world with their fiat inflation. Proselytizers of this movement then took a brief vacation, And made their way to the USA advancing socialization. Now, a... Elective Decisions http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2093695/posts#comment Tue, 30 Sep 2008 04:33:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2093365/posts The long list of evil Obama associates seems to grow daily and although Obama has spent the last few years dodging questions, ignoring demands for full open disclosure of his past and making excuses about a plethora of bad associations, one fact seems glaringly obvious... Obama has far more to hide than to share! Christian or secret Muslim? For months, despite his Arab Muslim name and background, Obama told the public via his surrogates in the press, that he was not a Muslim but a devoted Christian and he offered as proof, his twenty year membership in the Rev. Wright’s... Libertarian Republican http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2093365/posts#comment Mon, 29 Sep 2008 20:41:53 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2087164/posts John Derbyshire of National Review Online has written a curmudgeonly piece railing against irrational optimism. It's an entertaining read that is even more apt in light of recent developments. I'm sure the jackasses who wrecked our financial system were full of exuberant optimism and overinflated self-esteem. This hits home with me because, like the author, I do not believe in the perfectibility of man. We are flawed vessels. This brought to my mind William Butler Yeats' poem, "The Second Coming." Things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and... Nietzsche is Dead http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2087164/posts#comment Sun, 21 Sep 2008 18:25:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2086346/posts My favorite movie lines quotes, quips, profound, truisms. I'll start with the dark and work toward the light. A FreeRanging thread, please add your inputs. Okay to link youtube and music links. Me http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2086346/posts#comment Sat, 20 Sep 2008 03:35:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2071106/posts Ronald Reagan had about the same amount of foreign, Head of State experience from his time as Governor of California, as this Governor of Alaska. Executive Experience? A Governor of a state from this United States, makes decisions. A lot of them. A Governor executes a decision about avery 20 minutes that will, politically, either destroy them if it's the wrong thing to do, or if was the right decision, will give some swarmy legislator an opportunity to take credit! A Governor, even a small town Mayor, will make more executive decisions in 20 days than say, uh, some random... Re: FOX /Huckabee http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2071106/posts#comment Sat, 30 Aug 2008 11:19:36 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067238/posts (With apologies to Dr. Seuss) O and Joe Joe and O I will not vote for O and Joe Watchman's Words http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2067238/posts#comment Sun, 24 Aug 2008 19:07:07 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2066797/posts The poetry I call "Tokuisei Verse" was developed over a period of several years on an internet web site called FREEREPUBLIC.COM. I would like to thank the owner, operators and financial donors who provide this public forum for allowing me, without condition, such a frivolous use of their bandwidth. Tokuisei is a Japanese word meaning singularity.(A point in space-time at which gravitational forces cause matter to have infinite density and infinitesimal volume, and space and time to become infinitely distorted) Tokuisei Verse is a direct descendant of the traditional Japanese Haiku. However it contains only nine beats. It is... Tokuisei.Com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2066797/posts#comment Sat, 23 Aug 2008 18:32:33 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2066164/posts Obama’s performance at the Saddleback Church not only shows that he can’t answer simple questions, it also shows that he can’t tell us where he stands on abortion. On August 16, Senator Barack Obama and Senator John McCain attended a forum on Faith at Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church in Lake Forest, California. Warren asked a variety of questions to both candidates separately with each candidate offering his answers on live TV. The build up to the event was promoted to be a blowout performance for Obama, highlighting McCain’s inadequacies at connecting with the public. Unfortunately for Obama, reality was one... I'm A Pundit Too http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2066164/posts#comment Fri, 22 Aug 2008 15:06:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2046689/posts What is the measure of a man? Faithfulness and strength... peace in the face of adversity... Joy when there seems to be no good reason. A man's worth is not in what he has or does but in the treasures that lie in his spirit. Not in the friends he chooses, but in the friend he is. Too few men possess anything more than a head of stone and a heart of mush. Too many believe in everything, or nothing at the cost of all. They are: Too often unaccountable… Too blissfully irresponsible… Too utterly inconsistent… What is the measure... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2046689/posts#comment Thu, 17 Jul 2008 02:53:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2040124/posts Larry Sinclair, the man who accuses presumptive Democrat nominee Barack Obama of using hard drugs and participating in gay sex acts in 1999, is being refused representation by a Delaware lawyer despite Sinclair's ability to pay all legal fees and a written agreement. Sinclair claims that the attorney was fully and personally briefed on the explosive nature of the case. A scant eight hours after Attorney Richard R. Wier, jr. agreed to represent Sinclair, for a retainer of $10,000.00, he backed out of the deal at 5:15 pm today stating: "I cannot represent you knowing that you are saying the... Boston Beatnick http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2040124/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 06:36:29 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2038739/posts http://www.rushlowharris.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2038739/posts#comment Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:45:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2035135/posts Babies piled in dumpsters, Abortion on demand, Oh, sweet land of liberty; Your house is on the sand. Our children wander aimlessly Poisoned by cocaine Choosing to indulge their lusts, when God has said abstain. From sea to shining sea, our Nation turns away From the teaching of God's love and a need to always pray. We've kept God in our temples, how callous we have grown. When earth is but His footstool, and Heaven is His throne. We've voted in a government that's rotting at the core, Appointing Godless Judges; who throw reason out the door, Too soft to... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2035135/posts#comment Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:29:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2034349/posts Blogs bring out the base in us. The medium is primarily anonymous and the people who post or comment feel freer to tell others what they think. For a good example of what academics think about Christians, the Volokh Conspiracy has demonstrated that much of the academic world is inhabited by people who are the mirror image of Fred Phelps, right down to bigoted rants. It’s very revealing, yet the participants on that website keep on exposing the rotten underbelly of academia without any apparent self-consciousness. Theophobia Academics and Hostility to Religion Academia and Religion More on Academics and Hostility... The Virginian http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2034349/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jun 2008 14:41:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2027961/posts CHRIS MATTHEWS VIBRATING CALVES Yet at the same time as he's being stunned by the corruption and anti-Americanism of those closest to him, Obama's convinced that just by jetting into Tehran and Pyongyang he can get to know America's enemies and persuade them to hew to the straight and narrow. No doubt if it all goes belly-up, and Iran winds up nuking Tel Aviv, President Obama will put on his more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger face and announce solemnly that "this isn't the Mahmoud Ahmadinejad I knew." Supreme take down - Steyn. No wonder the leftards want to shut him the hell up. (... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2027961/posts#comment Sun, 8 Jun 2008 18:28:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2022470/posts Little Orphant Annie's come to our house to stay Barack Hussein Obama's come to our house to stay Finneran Lane http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2022470/posts#comment Wed, 28 May 2008 15:33:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2014241/posts Time will heal all sorrow At least that's what they say And maybe-maybe I'll be healed Of this sadness some bright day... Finneran Lane http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2014241/posts#comment Sun, 11 May 2008 00:26:21 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1987850/posts Barack, I didn’t do it for this. Barack, I was a civil rights worker… South Carolina, 1966… 22 yrs old … helping old folks register to vote, teaching kids to read and write, directing Raisin in the Sun… Barack, I didn’t do it for this. Barack, I dream of my kindergarten best friend Andy from Walden School, Manhattan, born one day after me, shot dead in Mississippi 1964. Barack, I idolized Stokley Carmichael and the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. Barack, I lost the full use of my left hand for life in South Carolina. Barack, I didn’t do it for... Pajamas Media http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1987850/posts#comment Wed, 19 Mar 2008 00:13:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1968400/posts Requiem for the Republic [With apologies to Al Stewart]http://www.alstewart.com/lyrics/yearofthecat.htm On the morning after Super Tuesday, in a party running out of timeWe've been run over by the Straight Talk Express,and it feels like a crime.He came out of the sun, on a strafing run(the maver-icky John McCain).Don't bother asking for explanations he'll just tell you that he came... In the year of the Rat He doesn't have to answer questions, he only says “You didn't serve.”The Straight Talk Express (no one seems to notice) is beginning to swerve!While the Ex-press stalls and The Market falls, and the pundits are all... Fevered Brain http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1968400/posts#comment Mon, 11 Feb 2008 12:52:54 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1910793/posts My story store. http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1910793/posts#comment Sat, 13 Oct 2007 17:24:34 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1908083/posts See for example this thread first. Air America should be named 'Err' Cause they've gone as far as they can dare It's Christopher Hitches with atheist bitchin's With their ratings, will anyone care? grey_whiskers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1908083/posts#comment Mon, 8 Oct 2007 11:29:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1907989/posts Happy Thanksgiving from Our Family to Yours - A Poem of Thanks On the American Thanksgiving last year I shared a touching poem which was memorized and recited by my son Joshua that had the effect of causing our family to reflect on and give thanks for all our blessings from the Lord.  Many readers appreciated it, and in case you missed it you can read it here:http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/nov/06112303.htmlWith the Canadian Thanksgiving this Monday, I thought I'd share another poem which my daughter Hannah recently memorized and recited publicly.  The poem by Ethyl Lynn Beers was particularly special in our case... LifeSiteNews.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1907989/posts#comment Mon, 8 Oct 2007 02:59:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1904770/posts See for example this thread first. From atop their high and lofty perch The 9h Circus okays a strip search of thirteen year old, when it's for IBUPROFEN! So the Court left that girl in the lurch... grey_whiskers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1904770/posts#comment Mon, 1 Oct 2007 11:21:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1904637/posts See for example this thread first. In Burma, they're exe-CU-ting monks Hundreds? Thousands? The murderous skunks! What I think we should do Send a B-52 We can show them they're nothing but punks. grey_whiskers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1904637/posts#comment Mon, 1 Oct 2007 01:31:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1904313/posts See for example this thread first. It's the end of the road for Gingrich And he won't run to challenge the witch Who to vote for instead? Duncan Hunter, or Fred! Don't fall for Guiliani's sales pitch! grey_whiskers http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/1904313/posts#comment Sun, 30 Sep 2007 03:44:50 GMT