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Tag Archives: Reactionary
FREE POSTER: GOP Greedy Old Perverts Sexual Predator-in-Chief Donald Trump and Roy Moore
Dirty old men, predominantly dirty old white men, are running rampant throughout our culture and politics. A long overdue push back is underway as many powerful sexual predators are finally being held to some account. The cutting edge of this … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Gay, News, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Authoritarian, Beautiful, Children, Christian, Community, Conservative, Conspiracy, Crime, Culture, Democrat, Donald Trump, Enemies, Fascism, free poster, Free Posters, Future, God, GOP, Hypermasculinity, Hypocrisy, Illegal, Justice, Kids, Lawyer, Lifestyle, Martyrdom, Military, Minorities, Moral, Muslim, National, Nationalism, Nature, Nazi, Normal, Patriarchy, Political, Politics, Power, Present, President, Reactionary, Redemption, Religious, Republican, Revolution, Rhetoric, Right-Wing, Roy Moore, Sex, sexual assault, Socialism, State, Success, Supreme Court, Time
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ACTIVIST POEM: Our Ayes Will Have It
She had Enough Of half-baked politicians She kneaded democracy Here and now As the yeast she could do Sounding off To those who might Listen Wee choir not A grand stand To lift every voice and sing Wringing well The … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Blessed, Change, Death, Democracy, Disenfranchised, Faith, Fear, God, Greed, Heart, Heaven, Hope, Justice, Minorities, National, Poems, Poetry, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Powers that be, Present, Privilege, Reactionary, Work
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ANTI-VIOLENCE POEM: Sisyphean Tax
He was steeped in the slippery slope of violence An idol escalator Heedlessly powered by gravity and gravitas A climb it denier Of the worst breed Not giving won ascent A bout others In spite of the accost Whatever It … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Abundance, Attitude, Awe, Consciousness, Creativity, Domination, Experience, Freedom, Hell, Life, Moral, Nature, Nonviolence, Play, Poems, Poetry, Possibility, Present, Reactionary, skin in the game, State, Suffering, Time, Top Pun, Violence
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FREE POLITICAL POSTER: Incremental Change, Heads Up!
This free political poster posits that the conventional wisdom of incremental change can be lethal to paradigm shifts needed for humanity to evolve to the next level. Devotees of incremental change may view death by degrees as safer, or at least … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Art, Ballot, Change, Chaos, Compromise, Conventional Wisdom, Death, Democracy, Donald Trump, Evil, Evolution, Experience, Fear, Free Downloadable Posters, free poster, Free Posters, God, Hillary Clinton, Humanity, Injustice, Liberation Theology, Life, Love, Paradigm Shift, Political, Politics, Poor, Power, Preferential Option for the Poor, Prison, Progress, Reactionary, Reality, Resistance, Revolution, Revolutionary, skin in the game, Status, Status Quo, Sustainable, Theology, Top Pun, Truth, Values, Voting, War, Wisdom
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POEM: That Miraculous Happen Stance
She was wading For something in particular Her role in the hay Like searching for a needle Attentive to pricks and pitchforks Grasping at straws Wandering what might catch Frayed of what could be Inconceivable A mystical roam to grow … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Attitude, Awe, Change, Cruelty, Curiosity, Heaven, Helplessness, Life, Mystery, Mystical, Normal, Poems, Poetry, Present, Reactionary, Reality, Sacred
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POEM: Never Agin
They lived in an ethic Spacious enough To ford seven generations Rooted in time immemorial And in awe of the presents Their will yielding To a vision enduring beyond death True sojourners of life Not a cataclysm of transients Who … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Ancient, Attitude, Awe, Ballot, Bernie Sanders, Children, Choices, Christian, Citizens, Death, Donald Trump, Elections, Evil, Fear, Freedom, Future, Hillary Clinton, History, Hope, Humanity, Jill Stein, Life, Love, Megalomania, Modern, Mother Earth, Poems, Poetry, Present, President, Reactionary, State, Success, Time, Voting, Wisdom
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POEM: Enlightenment Not Worth Beings
Conversing in the street At a protest We had a very enlightening pow wow As too in form me He stated with qualm assurance “Protest before enlightenment, protest after enlightenment” A parity of action Like I had never seen To … Continue reading
Posted in News, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Absurdity, Accountability, Amorality, Balance, Enlightenment, Evil, God, Human Rights, Individualism, Insanity, Life, Materialism, Meaning, Nature, New Age, Philosophy, Present, Privilege, Progress, Reactionary, Religion, Society, Soul, Spiritual, Spirituality, Trust, Truth
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POEM: They Knot His and Her — Owed To Gender Fluidity
They cross that strait When they get two it As engender queer In mirrorly two be Or knot too be This poem is an ode to gender fluidity, to anyone who looks in the mirror and sees a different gender … Continue reading
Posted in Gay, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Diversity, Equality, Female, Future, Gender, History, Identity, Justice, Life, Ode, Poetry, Political, Pride, Queer, Reactionary, Short Poems, Social Justice, Status, Status Quo, Time, Transgender
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FREE POSTER – Black Lives Matter: Devolution of Blue Lives Matter to Corporate Lives Matter, NOT Evolution, NOT Revolution
The Black Lives Matter movement has been successful in spawning reactionary movements. The latest of these is the Blue Lives Matter messaging going national through billboards as a so-called public service. Here is my take on such reactions: That police … Continue reading
Posted in Free Stuff, Peace, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged African American, America, Corporate Personhood, Criminal Justice System, Death, Dehumanizing, Evolution, free poster, Happiness, Human Rights, Image, Justice, Life, National, Nonviolent, Police, Political, Privilege, Reactionary, Resistance, Respect, Revolution, Social Movements, Violence
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POEM: To Not Mirrorly Be
The powers that be Screw you Then you screw me I don’t blame you Do you blame me? Either weigh We don’t have To be that way An open secret For awe to see And not mirrorly be Everywhere I … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Counter-Cultural, Evolution, History, Hope, Human Rights, Humanity, Image, Journey, Justice, Life, Modern, Nature, Play, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Present, Reactionary, Reality, Rules, Shakespeare, Society, Time, Women
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POEM: Making a Fuel of My Self
In the cold night That darkest time When dawns forgotten My heart burns With fear and pain My home aflame To an unaltarable offering And fiery furnish Of wanton change Of hammering out or deal For scanty respite From that … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Accountability, Awe, Change, Denial, Events, Experience, Fear, Gandhi, God, Hate, Heart, Holy, Hope, Humanity, Injustice, Justice, Love, Mourning, Nonviolence, Nonviolent, Poems, Poetry, Poor, Possibility, Power, Powers that be, Preferential Option for the Poor, Psychology, Reactionary, Reality, Rebellion, Resistance, Rich, Solidarity, Soul, Status, Status Quo, Success, Temptation, Time, Transcendent, Violence, Voting
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POEM: Democracy – as seen on TV
Wherever I land In the electoral whirled Politicians ceremoniously execute The will of the people In doctored fashion Yet an other sort of capitol punishment Delegated to the coroner Turning voting off In a Pyrrhic victory So hollowed by those … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged America, Change, Citizens, Community, Cynical, Democracy, Elections, Enemies, Humanity, Inane, Life, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Punishment, Reactionary, Reality, Time, Truth, Voting
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POEM: I Will Join The One, There is No Other
Alone Where is God in that? Does salvation lie in community? Wherever two or more gather In character At present will be God Therefore, I will join the one One who was left behind The one who’s going places no … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Buddhist, Character, Community, Compassion, Counter-Cultural, Culture, Enemies, Enlightenment, Faith, Genius, God, Jesus, Journey, Life, Love, Mystic, Mystical, Nature, Opposites, Passion, Piety, Poems, Poetry, Power, Powers that be, Present, Reactionary, Relationships, Solidarity, Spiritual, Spirituality, Status, Status Quo, Time
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POEM: By No Means Necessary
By No Means Necessary When the strident are Up in arms Staking their claims By any means necessary May such a battlefield Arouse patience strewn A bout Of faith Inciting our most gratuitous hopes By any kinds possible The prison … Continue reading
Posted in Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Amorality, Community, Compulsion, Cynical, Evil, Faith, Freedom, Heart, Hope, Humanity, Kindness, Life, Militant, Moral, Morality, Nature, Patience, Poems, Poetry, Political, Present, Prison, Progress, Reactionary, Reality, skin in the game
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POEM: Government Listening
I’d like a government that listens More than listens in And NO, I don’t want fries with that! We need to truly listen to one another, in order to create together a democracy that represents us. Democracy is an open … Continue reading
Posted in Poems
Tagged Accountability, Citizens, Democracy, Economy, government, Inane, Life, Poems, Poetry, Politics, Power, Questions, Reactionary, Reality, Rhetoric, Short Poems, State, Terrorism, Truth, Work
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