While Praying the Dalai Lama's Practice

spend five minutes remembering
we are all connected,
want the same things:
to be happy and loved.

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RE: I Falter When Considering Demagogues


I struggle to imagine
demagogues wanting
the same thing I want:
to stop the violence

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Demagogues Re-Branded

Boy-men pastors
tranced thousands
hip trappings
I want to weep, or scream.


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RE: Radio Demagogues

Ugly-voiced shock-jocks
trash-taking, one-upping
braggarts , narcissistic,
self-serving hypocrites.

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Old-Fashioned Demagogues

Thick-bodied men
above tranced minions
demonizing The Other
Our Way is the Only Way

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RE: While Praying the Dalai Lama's Practice

deep and abiding faith
in the power of compassion
makes every step we take
worthwhile social action

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RE: RE: I Falter When Considering Demagogues

And when violence hits home
our hearts shrink tight
only compassion can help
bring any bit of light

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Can't anyone hear it?

Our Way is the Only Way
is the sure-fire way
to remain in the cycle:
I, Saved; You, Infidel.

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And we - the Big We -
pay them for this!
Our nation feels crazy
when hate is our bliss

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RE: Old-Fashioned Demagogues

Isn't there a song like that?
My Way? Oh, yeah, a mafia guy.
It's always the trash
that thinks it's so high.

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RE: RE: While Praying the Dalai Lama's Practice

my five minutes will be spent
in emptying my mind
in hopes of finding unused space
for trying to be kind.

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Demagogues

Consider the demagogue.
It toils not, nor does it spin.
Ambitions so grand are all built on sand
and its followers notably dim.


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RE: Can't anyone hear it?

I don't know how
"infidels" listen.
What do they say to
their wives? Their daughters?

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hate mongers

hate's a rush
an adrenaline fix
an enemy's pain
one hell of a kick

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Mob Mentals

Frenetic is the act of a mob,
Turn off your mind, another will rule,
Wonder how you morphed to doorknob,
Give your life, give it all to a fool.

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5 minutes

In five minutes this class will end.
In five minutes I will eat my lunch.
In five minutes I'll clean my house.
I just need five more minutes.

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clicking away at ghostly shapes
reciting from idiot cards.
venting at empty, vapid space
filling her days with wars.

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RE: RE: hate mongers

Inanimate object
Animates her
At the controls
Intimate clicker

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RE: hate mongers

my mom would rant at the tv set,
when no one was around.
There's something sort of comforting
in shouting feds to ground.

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RE: Mob Mentals

the anger sparked by fear
I recognize for what its worth
It is the slow simmering
ticking white hot engine I give berth

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5 minutes just won't do it.
each week could take 5 years.
instant by instant I'm watching
as my wasted life disappears.

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windows closed

When driving in my car
they cannot hear my raving
about the way all others drive
The lives I could be saving!!!!

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RE: windows closed

Then there's the magic finger
to wave when in the lurch.
It's my driving signal
of choice when leaving church.

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RE: RE: Mob Mentals

Oh, to be a demagogue
ranting from the stage
saying things know aren't true
to foment public rage.

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