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Anonymous asked in Arts & HumanitiesPoetry · 10 years ago

Will you read and then CC this poem?

When you think of all the reasons

they

decided to suit up

go in

stand down

defend

many of those reasons

are easily justified everyday

without verification

or recognition.

Freedom is the most encompassing word,

next to love,

and instead of expounding on

the free ability to have food

shelter

religious worship

and many other

highly treasured gifts,

we should see the smaller, easier luxuries

we are afforded

like writing a poem

and posting it for the world to see (if the world

is watching) or being someone

we are not

simply by choosing a name and a picture.

Perhaps the simple joy of assuming the title of a Greek God

and demanding praise from random strangers

and friends alike

is more to our tastes

or maybe boxing ourselves into

the shape of a braggart, an egotistical

sociopath

that is concerned not for the random stranger

or the established friend

but for him and him alone,

like a black ant

that is free to stumble upon the nest

of its red cousins

and be virtually devoured

in order to feed

the queen.

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  • 10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    And then there's the right to accuse someone of a crime that doesn't exist, the right to butcher the English language, the right to seek legal counsel for no reason what so ever, the right to be completely and utterly out of your mind...

    You're right, it's the little things...

  • 10 years ago

    What I Always Dreamed Of

    I had it easy if I wanted it easy

    but there was a dark and sinister shape

    to the future that a life without

    honest effort would produce.

    And the more I got away with

    the less I was worth.

    So perhaps when someone

    has it all wrong

    they need to be told

    as many times as it takes

    classic conditioning was not just for the

    training of dogs

    I once said

    "behavior modification is slavery'

    if that is true,

    I am becoming a slave

    unto me.

    But

    what i always dreamed of

    was that someone somewhere

    would read something I wrote

    and it would affect them so gnormonogously

    that they would not forget it, not me

    but the feeling I left for them to feel

    and I am now fully aware that dreams CAN come true. By the thousands. I am now reaching for a way to hold on to US- we, the people....I have a lot of respect and faith in one who knows 'Freedom is the most encompassing word,

    next to Love."

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    and a good vets day to you dave.

    all those little freedoms add up. i often wonder how much of our (the US's) problems are exasperated by the mentality reinforced by anonymity and deception inherent to websites such as this. it is so much easier to insult people when they don't have to look into ones eyes or worry about immediate recriminations of a real world nature.

    i am sorry i didn't offer worship earlier, but the beauty and wisdom portfolios are occupied in my Pantheon this was a nice write on both levels i can understand.

  • doe
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    "Who knows himself a braggart,

    Let him fear this; for it will come to pass

    That every braggart will be found an azz." Shakespeare (only his word was spelled with 2 s's

    What I think of self appointed Greek god's. Good Poem.

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  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    Red ants,Black ants, all gone to war,

    they all ask themselves....

    just what are we fighting for?

    Where's the honey,Honey?

    Do you know why I must die?

    Can you tell me all the reasons,

    or just simply pass them by?

    Is life a game of checkers?

    Or a chess board full of pawns...

    to die before the mighty,

    amidst a throng of yawns.

    Source(s): oh,I dunno, an aging marcher,hippie child of the sixties I guess...
  • .
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    You did all that before to lay the foundation for the impact of this write. (I know you better than you think & tried to sound a warning...) Well, TA DA!, instead of I told you so... But I did...tell you so. And now you know. I just hope it didn't fly over your head.

  • 10 years ago

    Goood poem

  • ?
    Lv 7
    10 years ago

    Kinda sums up the Vukings season so far.

  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I liked it :D

    not my style (me being all emo depressing on the verge of song kinds poety)

    but I liked it really good

    Source(s): fellow poet
  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    I may be a sociopath but I assure you my self-esteem is very small.

    Source(s): Good write, man, GOOD WRITE!!!
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