Right and Wrong

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    Right and Wrong

    Tears in the tar
    carried far
    cry the dolphin
    to a passing star
    ...help us…
    see the gulls
    who now don’t fly
    see the whales
    who search for sky
    coast of destruction
    while they all stand by….

    experts tweet
    executives meet
    “fool proof plans”
    don’t mean a thing
    while seagulls die
    without their wings…
    drilling
    is it really
    what you want?

    Gulf coast spill
    and Ecuador
    the Exxon Valdez
    the Queensland shore
    yet new drills poised
    to poison some more
    ... what are we asking for…

    bitch and preach
    don’t mean a thing
    if we can’t walk our talk
    without convenient rings
    tones explode
    and we’re to know…
    that a saying was penned
    and is so true…
    “we can’t have the cake
    if we shit in the stew…”

    to make real change…
    is to change how we ‘do’.

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    Stryx commented on Right and Wrong

    09-12-2010

    Another inspired one. It is a riddle how we can survive, while we continually harm ourselves on purpose.
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    A poem begins as a lump in the throat, a sense of wrong, a homesickness, a lovesickness. It finds the thought and the thought finds the words.

    Robert Frost (1875-1963) American Poet.

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