O! If we triumph what does it mean?
Shall we remedy the affliction of the people
Or masquerade it about in some tawdry dance?
(The bleak reflection, the tepid, the shallow, the lesser of…)
Before we fill the house with glee…
Let us see to it that it is clean,
That the writhing spineless beasts
Can no more devour our very streets
With their dismal recipe of white hunger.
Let us regard each of them alone,
Not for their shade or for the ground they prowl
Where the filthy paws stir the stale vessel
With the infected hunger of money and war,
But for what they bring to peace.
O! Victory shall only come when we are free!
Not in power’s worship, but the love of people
Triumphant in the acquaintance and joy of liberty,
When every liar and thief is bent upon their soiled knees…
Before we fill the house with glee.
Copyright © 2006 mrp / thepoetryman
Yes indeed, we must call the bug man (no not DeLay, another real bug man) to spray down the place and get rid of the creepy stuff they have created.
By the way, I love your writing
Lovely. And true. We must examine ourselves not gloat, for there is no victory without peace.
POP,
Thank you for the compliment my friend…
Helen,
Yes. Pride goeth before the fall and all that jazz…without a doubt. We are living witness to the downfall of a regime bent on tyranny…Let us hope we can clean house all around and on all sides of the aisle when the business of peace has begun…
Thank you, Helen…
Not casting any dispersions on another excellent poem, Seems to me that “stale vessel” isn’t quite right. Did the conservative revolution simply become stale? Or did Bu$hCo destroy it? Perhaps “broken vessel”?
The fire in our eyes
Doused by war, debt, and bile.
Our formation breaks.
Accountability. We must hold those responsible accountable. And then, and only then, will justice be served.
i know a real good cleaning company…we can call and they would be happy to clean house…hell, i’ll even pitch in and help!!! smile
beautiful words as always…
Gonna take a whole lot of bleach to clean up the mess left behind! Get out the mops people, there’s still a lot of work to be done. But I will still gloat for at least a couple of days!
Hell, we more than earned it.
Poetry Man Congrats!
Democrat Resurgence Time for Change
A majority in The House
and one to go for the Senate
A new course on Iraq
Rumsfeld just announced he’s stepping down
You captured the “wait and see” attitude that is so important in the wake of the election.
Sorry, but I can’t help but gloat – just for today!! Tomorrow I will be holding some democratic feet to the fire!
Lets clean house!
O! Victory shall only come when we are free!
Not in power’s worship, but the love of people
Triumphant in the acquaintance and joy of liberty,
When every liar and thief is bent upon their soiled knees…
Before we fill the house with glee.
Let it ring through the land like a flood of goodwill…your poem and the picture was excellent!
“O! Victory shall only come when we are free!
Not in power’s worship, but the love of people
Triumphant in the acquaintance and joy of liberty,
When every liar and thief is bent upon their soiled knees…
Before we fill the house with glee.”
This is right on! I’m so glad the democrats took the house. But now the real work of peace begins….and your poem is the start of that journey.
Thank you for sharing this thepoetryman!
By the way I love that picture – it fits exactly!
But, we can clean the house with glee. We have a chance to do that now. Before, the garbage just kept piling up. Roll up sleeves, we have a lot of cleaning to do.
Wow! Thank you all for paying such fond compliments. Don’t get me wrong, I am excited that tyranny seems to have taken a very large blade to the gut, I’m just waiting if real change takes place. Of course real change now has a vehicle to move forward…
Push! Pull or drag! It’s one hell of a trade in!
Peace.
There’s time enough for the peace thing…the fight has only begun. No reaching across the aisle, no compromise. No dancing with the devil even if the music is really good.
Here’s some of the ways the work ahead may get started:
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/11/payback_time_wh.html
I like this poem, tpm, and the idea of a good housecleaning before dancing a jig is righton.
oops…part of the link got lost.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2006/11/payback_time_wh.html
ok, I give up.
to the end of the link addy, add:
e_wh.html
Good info
Is this your muse talking again?
I’m reminded of the poem several weeks back in which your muse was cleaning house.
I really like the line :
“Let US see to it that it is clean,”
This means that it is OUR responsibility. Tuesday was just the beginning.