PostPoems Be Artistic. Be Creative. Be Inspired!

Discoveries: Along the way, events, successes, new people surprise, enchant, fulfill to make room for something yet to be found. Human curiosity, drive - equal the next there! . You are so astute - chew on. . ~A~. 

Love You Too: Missing the warrior troubador. Lady A  

Windmill Tracking: "Not life as it is, but as it should be." I've pretty much succumbed to the evidences less of prophecy, more of human greed and ego destroying humankind. Unless something really astronomical hits Earth, Gaia will heal and evolve. We have just about filled in our portion of the timeline of existence. Soon, later, no matter...inevitably. . ~A~. 

Amen!  And this is a: Amen!  And this is a wonderful poem.

Entertain: One of a poet's purposes. Cheesing : D  

Decades ago, I read a: Decades ago, I read a commentary on some Poet (who that was, and the source of the commentary I have since forgotten) that suggested that literature only has ten original plots, and that everything else are simply variations on those ten themes.  Yet, in reading your poem, I hear this as a joyous rather than debilitating factor, as it means all Poets are really on the same ten pages---an implied unity of diversity, rather than division and disunion.  Thanks for posting this.

The righters seem to think: The righters seem to think that the 2nd Amendment is unadjustable, and must be preserved exactly as the Framers of the Constitution wrote it.  Yet, we have several precedents to show that we can successfully adjust the Framers' intentions with our own present reality.  The Framers allowed slavery and restricted the vote to males (and then the colonies that became states further restricted the franchise to property holders).  Two holdovers from the Framers eighteenth century perspective are the 2nd amendment and the electoral college.  Congress can still certify the presidental election results (despite the precedent, sadly established, and which we will hear of much more in 2024 and beyond, that each defeat is a steal) but it can be the popular vote tallies sent in from the States and not the cumbersome results of the electoral college's december conventions.  In the eighteenth century, militia warfare had an important place in the strategies of war---and helped our Revolution to free itself from the imperial designs of England.  Yet, in this day and age of drone warfare and weapons of mass destruction, a militia of clodhoppers---brandishing their assault weapons, dressed in their cammies or like primitive shamans, and ready to storm some capitol in order to hang an elected official with whom they disagree---is so comic as to be ludicrously tragic.  The chaos they cause, and we observed it well on January 6th, 2021, would collapse before a well trained invasive enemy with a good arsenal of highly technilogical weapons.  So we really do not need a well armed militia, and therefore the second amendment needs, itself, to be amended.  I should like to think that we are beginning to see the preparation for that process---as those same students who walked out of their classrooms all over the nation in protest will, very soon, be walking into the polling places to elect legislators and presidents who will carry out their will and not the policies of the National Rifle Association and the malicious ghosts of the Nazi party.