What Crosses My Mind

Here I will focus the writing on poetry and commentary.

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`The Decay of a Day

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In a methodical mess of time,

our world has been defined,

by hypocrisy,

or idiocy,

or lunacy,

or whichever descriptive

horror,

travesty,

diminished capacity,

we might choose to operate from.

The ticking of a clock began our morning,

from federal sacrifice to teacher ignorance,

our society believes,

we can will away all the misery,

our inability,

our instability

that bureaucratic dependency,

to do the wrong thing

is alive and twirling

a baton of human sacrifice

across a meddling nation.

We are clueless to the hurtful,

menacing manner maligned

mouthpiece

we often rely upon to

make us laugh with ridicule.

What happens when the laughter

ends, when one doctrine

pitted against another,

believes the lie to be true,

believes in the why we do,

believes their own lie,

to be truth …

Syria.

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  1. Kelly Avatar
    Kelly

    Spawned by last nights debate?

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    1. thom amundsen Avatar
      thom amundsen

      partly, as well as the news of the student with the clock this morning in Texas, and a disgusting slam on Muslims in ‘his’ town hall meeting in New Hampshire tonight! I almost drove off the road I was so upset, listening on the radio.

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      1. Kelly Avatar
        Kelly

        I caught that last night and went to bed in a rage! So incredibly sad….

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  2. petraperkov Avatar
    petraperkov

    Wow! I wrote my latest piece on Syria, too. Your poem has that type of haunting beauty that stays with everybody who reads it. Truly amazing.

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    1. thom amundsen Avatar
      thom amundsen

      thank you – our society gives us a lot of inspiration these days – sadly I suppose 🙂

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      1. petraperkov Avatar
        petraperkov

        You’re right, but if you scratch beneath the surface, you can still find genuine acts of kindness in all this mess. More than 20 000 refugees have entered my country in the last 48 hours and despite some hateful hearts living here, many truly wonderful people have done and are doing all they can to help these unfortunate souls. It kind of makes you believe that humanity isn’t doomed after all.

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      2. thom amundsen Avatar
        thom amundsen

        Thanks for that perspective – we hear only doom and gloom over here!

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