??? Intersectionality ???
Intersectionality by JH Meares
I think of intersectionality like a an overlapping freeway
Humans by design are created differently
with specialities for all to see
Different directions, different levels, different skills,
and whatever else only God knows
Political Power and National Trust
National Trust
Aisling M. Patrick
Enforcing the laws you like and dissing the ones you don’t
Creatively making up word salads designed to gloat
On policy matters without common sense
How does your team dream up this contents?
You all seem so concerned with what you call the “greater good”
Creating a most frightening national “hood”
Letting criminals loose so to make up for perceived past mistakes
Intentionally creating unlivable space
Not enforcing the border laws on the books
Sanguinely letting criminals in without a second look
You appear to want to destroy America from within
Why?…are you vigilantes pursuing original sin?
Creating chaos and anarchy to call in marshal law?
Seeking to fan the flames of a fake brouhaha?
You can’t have two tiers of justice
We can’t follow your words of “just trust us”
Depending upon your point of view
Political persuasion is not new
But go through the proper channels in lieu
Of ad hoc determining what you will or will not do
This provocative approach is so willy nilly
It’s damnably silly
Are we or are we not one nation under God?
Equal justice means doing the right thing even if it feels wrong
Elect or protest to change the law…that’s what we’re taught
but as our public officials you are hired to enforce it, like or NOT…
Leaving your acrimonious attitudes aside
Please do your nation’s duty as you do reside
in our White House…the people’s house
And, unfortunately, of that there is no doubt
Seeking true trust in liberty and justice for all.
Political Power Misplaced
Where's the truth?
Aisling M. Patrick
Did Fani conspire?
Or was she hired?
And was she paid
By George Soros to be his Georgia DA?
Is this part of the left’s multi pronged attack
to label and jail state enemies and all that
We had thought it could not happen here
Boy were we wrong my dear
As Hung Cao shows in his ad
We are not far from “comrade”
Where disagreeing with the state
May cause you to be taken away
And re-educated day after day
Who are these folks calling the play by play
on Donald J Trump each and every day
Are you elected, selected or appointed
Or merely professional bureaucrats feeling anointed?
Truth always surfaces.
Politics and Grace...I wonder when?
Conviction
Aisling M. Patrick
How can they all be so giddy and gay over Trump’s conviction today?
No sorrow or sympathy, kindness or grace has set foot in that "View’s" media space
How can they be so glad and ecstatic, while also being so rude and bombastic?
Whatever happened to caring about the human race?
Seeing someone’s foibles but not dissing their place
Shouting “convicted felon” from great sanctimonious heights
Yet the appeals have not played out yet tonight
Gloriously riggling with delight over Trump’s currently sad plight
I have difficulty understanding how condescending and cruel these folks are…led as if from a black magic grimoire
Happy to see someone down, wanting to tar and feather and run out of town
Wanting to kick and humiliate
It is so sad that they are unable to offer humility and grace…
Everyone deserves Grace.
political selfies
political selfies
JH Meares
Political selfies are only concerned with one side
Thriving on public attention that raises and deifies
Arguing that the opposite view has no understanding
Lamenting their extreme mindless countermanding
PC ways claiming they refuse to accept these mind expanding
Worldly governance ideas coming in for a landing
However, I find that if the context is truly correct
often political selfies have a lack of honest intellect
Political Musings
whiteified blackified wokeified…sigh
Aisling M. Patrick
whiteified blackified wokeified…sigh
Why? Why? Why?
What happened to reality?
Is it to be defiled, denied and defied?
Sigh, sigh, sigh
Meaning real Reality
Not some inane banality
Or
Woke contrived homily
Is this the prism of the ticky-tock generation
False narratives …requiring political ablation!
Some wokified tickytock historian cannot “re-truth” historical realities
Via algorithms from Google or Wikiweb searches intrinsic with their falsities
Were they thinking the “weighted” results will hold up to serious scrutiny?
Historical truths won’t conform to the “party’s” shibboleth
Algorithms are programmed by man…so now what is left?
The pre-weighted results are inevitably the lumens
Of woke design created by disillusioned humans
One should always beware
Of disproportionately weighted technological fare
Truth to power is not a one way street
The best ideas rise and become a conglomerate
… so to speak
Not harvested by whether they are whiteified, blackified, or wokeified
Just winning on the merits approved by the argus-eyed
Pensive Penguin
Political Poetry
Lawful Lament
JH Meares
If law’s don’t mean much
Then anarchy sets in and touches all of us
Laws aren’t passed so the public can pick and choose its enforcement
What lessons are we teaching from such tacit endorsements?
Is civics dead?
Journalism too?
What is our country coming to?
Silly things take up too much government time
Too many small groups continually whine
About gender pronouns…seems unnecessary and a waste
Especially when the world is in such a trying place
Re-Imagineering Sno'Whyte?
Aisling M. Patrick
Why reimagineer and rework traditional Fairy tales?
Did “Disney’s woke” writers think that this wind had sales?
The public sees the corporation acting like a bullying jerk
Watching actors use self-ascribed indignation to go berserk
Eviscerating tradition under the guise of DEI
Political correctness has seriously gone awry
Believing that these tales need to be retold
By being recreated from a woke vault mold
Instead of showering our traditional values with scorn
Dissing us with your fractured fantasy fairy tale corn
Remember it’s a STORY…
If you don’t deign to read it as the author intended
…don’t borrow the book so you are not offended
Don’t listen on radio, watch the movie or the tv,
Just change the channel…it’s so easy!
Remember when cultural changes were digested over time
And not dissected with revisionist history in mind?
Please stop forcing normalization of weird books
And banning traditional ones that deserve a look
Americans are capable of making decisions for themselves
On what to read from their library shelves
Wokesters, you too, are welcome to disagree
But please accept our differences and not seek to oversee
The shutdown and censorship of speech that is free
There is room for all without redefining and rewriting stories
Trying to remove past culture in a woke world’s newfound vainglory
Forcing legislation of cultural moraies
will lead only to greater frustration and delays
This is not winner take all negotiation
It’s a gentleman’s agreement and
We won’t accept your aberration
Please understand that while we tolerate opposing views
We can still be proud patriotic Americans, too
*Photo of a Bradford Exchange Plate
with licensed Disney image
Political Dirt
Politicos and Detergent
Aisling M. Patrick
They appear fervently housed in political ideology and climate control
What’s the worst for our nation…Lord, I don’t know
Both are bad…seems we cannot see fair
Being able to agreeably disagree and still get there
Creatively meshing our differing views
into something that could be tried and true
The calls for diversity equity and inclusion
Are stymying our youth generating pawns of educational collusion
The more divisive the administration is promoting racial stresses
The children pick it up and it affects their common senses
Kids who would normally be colorblind in our US of A
Are now taught that their different look handicaps them today
They copy the anger and confusion brought by family and news
Unable at impressionable ages to use tools to weigh these issues
Instead they parrot their elders and friends from school
whose thoughts damnably do subvert and confuse
Making it really difficult for these youths to pursue and peruse
The additional unbiased information
that could aid in their decision making
Sometimes I wish these education industrial insurgents
would be washed clean with a strong detergent…
sigh
"This too shall pass."
Main Stream Mediacracy
Mediacracy
Aisling M. Patrick
Desiring to exercise an oracle’s power
Seeking to destroy and devour
Points of view that might question you or your motives
Because they might expose explosive
Truths that you refuse to cover
Some things you just cannot smother
Can’t you see democracy is not just what you all deem it to be
You throw away words with or without intense scrutiny:
Insurrection, sedition, and threat to democracy
Whilst you are the ones actually decrying liberty
And the rights of the citizens to disagree
With government rules and entities
You can sit there and give it as a straight faced belief
And your limousine liberal progressive friends will sigh in relief
Applauding the usage of scare tactics to alter public perceptions
You filter and censor the truth without exception
You really are only offering opinions
Facts being damned in your ivory tower dominion
Fortunately the stranglehold is being loosed
As the American and Canadian publics are not being duped
It’s very sad that real journalism is dead
TV, Radio, newspaper, and internet platforms are driven by profits and political power instead
Life truths are important.
AI
AI Fears: Wary, Vigilant and Afraid
JH Meares
We need to be vigilant, and wary
Overseeing how smart machines interpret the library
Of civilization
Not instigating the values of abomination
This man created machine sophisticate
Is an influencer and its advocates not circumspect
Is AI a stealthy tech force that’s persistent
And dedicated to silently intruding into our existence?
What good are AI chats and bots
If all they do is fraught
With the chaos learned from tik toc slop
This invasion of our daily lives needs to stop
Ceding control to a programmable destiny
Doesn’t feel like life as God intended it to be
Don’t get me wrong…I like progress
but not if it’s coming with a complete regress
From living our lives precious and free
Enjoying fulfillment of our humanity
Do we need devices for every purpose?
Let’s dig beneath this surface
Surely there may be functions that help ease daily life
but at what cost…and how much strife?
What are we giving up in order to integrate this technology
Into our lives today?
I remain wary, vigilant, and a touch afraid…
Are we believing for good...yet controlled by AI machines programmed by man pulling the strings...
A Moment Poet
Truth in an AI World
JH Meares
In a world centered on AI, chatgpt, email, and text…
Do we still talk to people about what has us perplexed?
Converse with the bots…they will smile and say
They can help…but…oops…you entered information the wrong way
We no longer see person to person interactions
Remember it started with banks and ATM transactions?
Now it’s the internet teeming with chatbots galore
What intrinsic value is offered with AI’s wherefore?
Is individual thought being retained
Or is AI technology our new societal “brain”
What’s next?
Can it be stopped?
Are we going to have chatgpt police robots?
Will the computers take over…let us be clear
Emphatically NO…definitely not here!
We do not seek a dysfunctional dystopia
Nor AI leading a technological utopia
We like living our lives
Watching the sun rise
And set…
Thinking and feeling cognizant
of God and man and truth
Dirty Politics?
Him the victim
Aisling M. Patrick
For Jeff DeWit
Tag! You’re It!
Wait and see
Him the victim
What a controversy
Who is he?
The messenger and offerer of bribes
Wielding messages for the “ones back east” who hide
Who are they?
They do not appear to be nice
and just why are they trying
to entice politicians away
By offering a pay to play
Wealthy wannabes throwing money
to willing politicians like honey
Hoping it will stick and they will stay
On the reservation and not slip away
These have become the great pretenders of today
Public trust be damned
Watch these political ne’er-do-wells scram
Absconding with their backroom principles
Pretending to be an honest public figure…how fictional!
Their constituents be damned for it is the money machine
That is what they worship…and yes…it is obscene
Is this a huge republican mistake
Faking the fawning but actually representing Kari Lake hate?
"Play nice...we are gentlemen!"
Political Commentary via Poetry
weather balloon woes
Aisling M. Patrick
Are we believing it’s a weather balloon because China says it is so?
What a sad, sad place for America to go
Joe Biden’s administration has set a new low
Weak kneed and not inclined to dispense accurate information
His administration willingly disseminates its dogma fabrications
Transposing actuality to some new fangled faux “Reality”
Acting like a Wuhan Lab carpenter bee
Perhaps now with intel under the thumb of the Chinese
We must defend our constitutional republic please!
onion attack
JH Meares
Peel back the onion cnn
You’ll find DEI nonexistent then
Ronna McDaniel was thrown away…
What the heck…does every opinion have to be your way?
Inclusion led to Exclusion
Is it some Easter egg delusion?
Or Joe’s White House confusion?
Cnn…you used to be part of the free press
But your so-called “journalism” is intolerant
So very sad to see the intense ferocity
Used to attack those with whom you disagree
"Let there be light" upon journalism!
Political Commentary via Poetry
Biden’s America…Enough!
Aisling M. Patrick
Biden’s America has unleashed pain and violence
No fear of reprisals and many stay silent
He’s created a victim class who feel owed
And able to ignore our laws and freeload
They feel entitled to steal and commandeer
As lax DA’s have eliminated the punishment fear
Joe, you are destroying America proactively
by creating whining snowflakes who detractively
Disparage the police and America’s past
Falsely thinking that this perverted legacy will last
Biden’s America has triggered and lambasted our language, you see
With their attempts to regain the perceived loss of equity
You can’t have it both ways
Changing definitions each day
Blaming race for all inequity…a gross mendacity
That Progressives tell me is due to “caudacity",
Well, I don’t hold with their audacity
We can’t fight back…see the subway choke,
And Marines on the beach pummeled by young folks
Who are these unsupervised minors spewing violence and hate?
No respect for rules or laws governing fireworks much less allowing human kindness to proliferate
Forty beating on two or three…
How could this come to be?
How could any one of them think it’s ok?
alcohol or drugs are no excuse for being this way
Truly sad and heartbreaking
Disappointing if all is true
This is not our America red, white, and blue
Biden’s America…What a sad place for our country to be
Trying to create fear of our own skins in this new society
Well, let me tell you…I will have none of this
The laws need to be enforced…not dismissed
These child hoodlums need to be prosecuted
As their thinking is warped and convoluted
How can human beings be so vile over a verbal disagreement?
The grand pretense spewed by these false rhetorical antecedents
Such a puerile and callow attitude towards American liberty
Made worse as they don’t seem to know our history
We must mitigate future trauma and hate
Using Memorial day to celebrate
American heroes and not the ingrates
Biden’s America is so very sad…
And we need to tell his administration that we have had
Enough!
Political
American Thinkers Bred by JH Meares
To exalt or to block history
Why some do…it is truly a mystery
A 1619 seminar, creating the opportunity
For unpatriotic influences on American unity
We learn from the past and are glad
Refusing to be merely aoudad
We are not easily led
But truly American thinkers bred
Another FLASH poem inspired by Abilene Writers Guild monthly challenge
5 Words:
Exalt, block, opportunity, influences, seminar
Proud to be American!
Political
“Fielding” by Aisling M. Patrick
Yes sirree, i love the word field
and no sir i will not yield
I love fields of endeavor, daisies, lilies, cotton, and ag
baseball, football, soccer, and the American Flag
I love field trips, field workers, Joshua Fielding even Sally Fields
How does this imply racism …. No sir…I will not yield
Since when does “field of work” connote slavery or racism?
A bit of a stretch and just a self important word police eulogism
This renaming and relabeling
Needs to stop creating phony word salad fabling
Triggered by this and triggered by that
It seems we are in word to word combat
If the “woke” truly support diversity, equity, and inclusion
Why not welcome the unique old school etymological locution
Instead of this new word diet brought on by delusion
Are the woke too lazy to just accommodate language differences?
Preferring to destroy and deracinate what they see as offenses
Yes, words matter but redefining
with the end of reassigning
Words deemed appropriate for use
is thought police abuse
Are you wanting to tear society into tatters?
Have you no joy or laughter?
Can’t you let others be
and not accuse them of insensitive or decadent cultural diversity?
By your limited definitions anything can become misappropriation
And your limited thinking comes across as regressive evasion of communication
We are not inviting in the social progressive policing of our language and societal endeavors
We embrace our differences and within them find treasure
…we are a melting pot
… meaning we enjoy each other’s differences and make them our own
And do not accept or expect to be “stoned”
By self indulgent and self appointed word police
Our American freedoms and liberties are now on the table
You can complain but don’t expect me to support or enable
government or schools supporting such ridiculousness
Where the underlying purpose is creating societal dissonance
Whilst purporting to be framing the phraseology with grandiloquence
Viva the word field
If you’re thinking of imposing woke changes on my vocabulary
You may be subject to the ways of the silent majority disciplinary
Please note any word you abhor…I have decided to say and use all the more
This is America and thank God we have our freedom of speech
No one can force this gobbledygook as it would be government overreach!
Skyline fields!
Synergistic Cognates
Synergistic Cognates by Aisling M. Patrick
Political children all onstage
Like toddlers seeking attention for a day
Bickering, slighting, and infighting
Ganging up and backbiting
Vivek’s message resonates
More soundly than your umbrage fakes
Some were citing inexperience of this entrepreneur…
Really lady and sirs…
Almost all of you are professional politicians
Saying that you’re Americans first…yet…no contrition?
Had to turn it off …there was no debate
Just synergistic cognates
Of negativity