True-Number News
700 foreign troops killed 2010 minimum Afghan casualties far higher far higher? where is the news how many Taliban? how many innocents? a decade of loss on all sides but where are the true numbers? which life does not get counted?
My way…
obviously, some things were written tongue-in-cheek…
hue-man
I have obviously been very facetious with this write in order to bring my point across, no offense meant to anyone, please, love and light…
No bitterness No hate
Inspired by 'Mundarek'a band of aboriginal musicians travelling the country inspiring positive emotions in aboriginal communities........
Two birds of prey…
Two birds of prey… are hitched to my buggy, One white, one black, The white one represents the love that surrounds, The black one, the murkiness that diminishes me, that draws me into the illusion…, They’re forever in a contest for my allegiance
what am i?? (solved by mr. swade)
i'm the strongest material in the world but you can tear me with one swipe of your hand i'm all over but most noticeable in the fall
Two very different rivers…
A bit of a re-write and an old favourite poem of mine...
very busy
in a busy life we forget our cultural values, so we are loosing so many things in life
Making my life...
To live or not to live, That is the only question, Yesterday I spent all day in hospital, Not unusual, but this time, I was the patient, They settled me in a nice quiet corner booth, yum, loved it for what I had in mind..., In the booth next to
People, who can be trusted
People, who can be trusted are very important, It’s so difficult – being reliable person in life. Always those who are kind have to go through discomfort, But without them world wouldn’t be light and bright.
Your Truth
Friends and pretenders who gossip about you trying to tear you down gets me mad.... just venting.
Yolanda, O’ Hayian
May we each do what we can to help.
The american nightmare!
It was their dream. Cuddley pillows, dimed lights. Living above their means, material wealth in sight. Finally eyes are open, oprah appears on screen. "Her" dream has happen, everything looks so green. Then came the crash; housing and stock market. B
Who Asked Ya?
Had to say it...
The Little Mermaid that couldn’t...
I was watching my fellow-travellers on this globe, frolicking in the waves today, I had already done my frolicking, and was relaxing with a cuppa,[a Frappe, nice ice-cold Greek coffee with a tad of milk, shaken in a blender, mmm..., wouldn’t mind so
Play, anyone...?
Hey, i am just having some fun...
Running away from Home
inspired by kickit22's write
theysay
they say we'll come to our end one day they say we just won't matter they say we'll become our own prey with thoughts as mad as a hatter they say we'll run out of water they say we'll run out of food they say we'll kill or be slaughtered the
Border Reflections
advantage taken of human need as desperation laws do break while US agri-business moves with greed into the after-NAFTA wake family fields of decimation failing grains, lives at stake. shy-of-heaven cross 8-foot-high ribbons of discontent in
ode underwater
I've got this listing, sinking feeling that I owed most of my life to my bank. Hands in the air, reaching for debt ceiling, yet another fine mess, with no one to thank. Guns all put down, the pen reigns mightier can't fight the bank, let alone
L-E-A-V-E
Following thirty years of power building, rife with billions taken from the people, land and life Soles now upturned facing toward heaven’s light LEAVE spelling out dis- respect through all the strife A nation’s self-portrait Tahrir Squa
Day 107
The threat is gone no longer do we see crude cresting on waves washing ashore killing dreams. The threat is gone toxins unknown dispersed into water’s moving force cleansing itself anew, nature’s balance caught in the middl
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Disappointment, the cause of ‘oldness’...
Noun 1. Disappointment - a feeling of dissatisfaction that results when your expectations are not realized http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Disappointment [The Master's power is like this. He lets all things come and go effortlessly, without d
Latin Soul...
The venue? Limassol, Time? 10.30 pm, The vibe? The Soul of Latin music... Aaahhh, what bliss!!! As the musicians’ instruments and voices blend and begin their magic, All eyes are focussed on them, Bodies start swaying in their chairs and mout
The sack…
The sack… A parody… [par•o•dy /'pær?di/ Show Spelled Show IPA noun, plural -dies, verb, -died, -dy•ing. –noun any humorous, satirical, or burlesque imitation, as of a person, event, etc.] http://dictionary.reference.
Doin’ rain, etc...
Long, long ago, in a jungle far, far away..., as a teenager, I used to love reading the Tarzan novels,[heck, I still do...], Anyway, the king of the jungle taught me an interesting take on life, In one of his earliest adventures, as he was crossing
What point in time
Pehaps we ar becoming a little too materialistic..
The problem with positive-thinking ...
First off, I ‘love’ positive-thinking gurus, well, to a point, Some do get nauseating past that point, though..., They certainly pose many valid, logical, unarguable tenets, They quote all the ‘holy’ scriptures and the gurus gone before them to c
The Walls of Jericho…
So the people shouted when [the priests] blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, e
hold my hand love
taking your hand walking together wanting to get to know you better i know life has been tough with you darling as it has been with me wish i had met you many years ago i love you so very much wanting so much to hold you i am try
Grace...
‘...disposition to or an act or instance of kindness, courtesy, or clemency...’ http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/grace Only a fool thinks he/she can grant kindness, or clemency to anyone, but, courtesy, yes, that we can give away all da
reveal
how you interpret anothers write............
Technology and Man's Destiny
Personification of Technology. Technology itself is not responsible for the ills associated with it. It is the use of technology. And who decides that?
A bubble in time...
sometimes, I find my self lost in a kind of chimerical bubble like the molokini-crescent-shaped-crater-maui-hawaii..., i simultaneously see my self as the whole of it, or an infinitesimal throw of the dice, a frenzied ‘quanta-dance’, my logical, e
Truth v Lies. (Yankee Challenge)
Thanks for the challenge Yankee.
second hand
just my stuff .......ha ha
Simple Country Life
A sonnet to celebrate the unsophisticated candor of rural America...
Haiku Challenge
Written in response to darkhorse555's 5-7-5 challenge.
Predatory Universe...???
Patience, pursue, pounce, prey..., The way of wild African animals, Or wall-street wizards? On the one hand, the mother crocodile tenderly takes her young to water, On the other it ruthlessly and without hesitation will take some other mother’
Yang/Yin...
Throughout my life, I have tried to understand the feminine spirit, Sigh..., yes, I know, ladies, its mission impossible, However, every now and then I get glimpses, however small and pathetic they may seem, of that inexhaustible labyrinth we call.
To the Warmonger
I think everyone knows who I mean...