Laurie the Poet

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Poem 11 in August

Trump and other strongmen
Netanyahu and Putin
And many others: like peas in a pod
They are his brothers
who think THEY are God
And he rules the most powerful county of all
But remember pride ALWAYS
creates its own fall.

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Poem 10

We don't know the number
of trans people who died fighting for their country,openly or not. But they WERE THERE.
This regime mocks their sacrifice:
"People like you are not good enough to serve."
BUT CAN they erase you?
NO! YOU WERE THERE.

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Poem 9 in August

GOP friends they don't believe it: "that's the liberals lying!"
What would it take?
Would they still close their eyes if they SAW it?
How many Germans closed their eyes under Hitler? Said "that's the foreign press lying about our Leader"
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Poem 8 in August

Every day more and more Israelis protest with photos of children in Gaza and hostages
Saying No war No occupation.
If they can be that brave in a war.
How can WE be silent about OUR country?
What would YOUR sign say?
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Poem 7 in August

Who deserves half a billion dollars
Who deserves gilded mirrors in the Oval Office?
Nobody!
Who deserves medical care
Who deserves education
Who deserves a home
Who deserves food
Who deserves safety
Who deserves dignity
Everybody!
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If you think a golden ballroom is more important than childhood cancer research… I have nothing left to say to you. Please unfollow me.

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Poem #6 in August

DON'T
Don't starve kids abuse kids bomb kids kidnap kids enslave kids tell kids they are unnatural crazy bad make kids act "normal" cut off kids' education food water Medicaid imprison kids institutionalize kids
JUST DON'T!
Any questions??

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Poem 5 in August

Not all Trumpists are lying.
Some believe lies THEY were told.
Believing lies = being fooled.
No-one likes feeling foolish.
(Many Germans realized - later - that Hitler had lied to them.)
We MUST keep telling them the truth.
I just hope it is not too late.

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Poem 4 of 31 in August

You say that there was a massive conspiracy
to steal the 2020 election
Where is reports from poll workers, registars?
Surely SOME would have come forward in such MASSIVE fraud?
In fact where is ANY evidence?
No evidence = hoax.
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Poem 3 of 31 in August

Trump is ripping out the lawn in the Rose Garden, putting in a patio. Although he IS keeping intact the rose bushes themselves.
Concrete is easier to kneel on than grass. Will there be a throne for His Lowness King Donald?

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Poem 2 of 31 in August

How can someone be alive
then not exist a day later?
We don't know how long we will have. This might be the last time. The only time.
So listen now.
Work for peace and justice. Now.
Not tomorrow. Not next week.Now.
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Poem 1 of 31 Poems in August

So hard for me to understand
Why do we, the richest country on earth, turn our eyes away
our hearts away
our hands away?
Why do only SOME people
deserve food?
And why could a child possibly
deserve the death penalty?

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In August some of my poems (but not all) will express my personal views on Israel/Palestine. I am a Jewish American who identifies as being on the Don't Take Hostages Don't Bomb or Starve Children side.
You may agree or not. Other poems will be on whatever else comes up in these weird times.

31 Poems in July
Poem 31

I have led Zooms,been march marshall,support team member.But phone calls to reps, listening to many long speeches? hard.Know yourself don't force yourself,say no say yes.This movement must belong to us all,being who we are not just to some of us.
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31 Poems in July
Poem 30 of 31

Donald said South Park told lies
that he was not of tiny size
Many women testified
He's quite large, the show told lies
But each witness then explained:
He's VERY small
...in HEART and BRAIN!

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31 Poems in July
Poem 29

Step in
Though the waves are high
Though the river is fast
Though the ice is thin
Nothing gets accomplished
Standing on the short
Just watching
Step in
You WILL find others
and walk together
on water
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31 Poems in July
Poem 28

Don't beat yourself up
about what you do being small.
What matters is that
you are doing it at all.
Each sandbag in a stack
shoring up a levee
against inundation
holds many tiny grains of sand
and each grain of sand matters.
You matter.
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31 poems in July
Poem 27

When you mock people,
when you call them criminals,
say they attack YOU,
say YOU are threatened
and call them stupid,
say they're selfish, greedy, liars,cheats, frauds:
look in the mirror
if you can
and get your heart examined, little man.

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31 poems in July
Poem 26

How
Very easy
It is to
whip up hate against
a group of people by
making us afraid of them.
But this will not work if
we pull aside the curtain
to see how we
are being manipulated
then reject
lies!
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31 Poems in July
Poem 25

what are you good at
what is easy for you
and hard for others
what can you give
that is needed
and goes WITH your grain
not AGAINST it
what flows naturally,
is not forced.
If you feel fear
but it feels intuitively right
don't sit and think it.
DO IT. Now.
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31 Poems in July
Poem 24

Questions to ask when looking back:

What did I say consent to?
And where did I close my eyes?
Whose suffering did I ignore?
And why did I believe the lies?
How was i persuaded to hate?
And when did I finally act but only too late?

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31 Poems in July
Poem 23

Writers
are dangerous.
Tyrant beware!
They don't
chant on a bullhorn
or lead crowds
into battle
but their
words
without warning
can
suddenly and quickly
vibrate and
shatter, into
tiny scattered shards,
your beloved
spun-glass throne.

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31 Poems in July
Poem 22

What I should do is
Not what you should do. We are
all different, unique.
Not everybody can march
Not everyone can
make phone calls. The important
thing is to find out
what needs to be done and what
YOU can do. DO IT!
Above all don't do nothing.
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31 Poems on July
Poem 21

In Star Trek there is an episode
Where history was at a turning point
And one tiny act destroyed everything.
We are also at a fork in our road.
The important thing is to know that
our tiny acts matter.
And to do what we can.
So what will YOU do?
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31 Poems in July
Poem 20

He wakes up daily,
eats his burger, then asks
himself "what cruel
action can I take today?
What would hurt the most
people?" and then he does it.
What if each of us
asked ourselves on waking up
"What kind thing can I
do today that would help people?"
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31 Poems in July
Poem 19

I am dangerous.
But they don't get why I am.
I've peacefully marched
for decades but that's not
why they should fear me.
Yes i appear quite harmless:
a non-threatening
old white bookworm with glasses.
Little do they know
My secret weapon? Poems.

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31 Poems in July
Poem 18

School,store,work,
anywhere
your ICE Gestapo kidnaps
good people
even if born here
Sadism is the name of your game
for money,fame
Shoving people out of sight
dragging the USA down
into the night
but we won't play not today
NO ICE in OUR town
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31 Poems in July
Poem 17

Our Constitution:
Law of the Land
Despite what a toddler
in the White House
demands.
Written long ago by people
biased,flawed
it once left many out
but it remains the LAW.
To remain free
With it we MUST STAND:
Law of ALL the people
Law of ALL the land.

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31 Poems in July
Poem 16

Trump is like a parrot
Quick to talk

Trump is like a megaphone
Quick to squawk

But
Trump is like an ice cream cone
quick to melt
And
Trump is like a daffodil
quick to wilt

He is not the strongman he appears
To him let's say No no NO MORE FEAR

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