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POETRY’S PATH

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Poetry may hide under rocks, too.

Poems litter the path with words

often unattached

to any reality,

and blocking the way

to progress.

But, poetry exposed to the sun,

and shared with everyone,

opens up paths of discovery.

Poems can be used as tools

to bring back home

fearful fools

who climbed too high,

led astray by fraudsters

who use their fear

to build a gate,

and create hate

to block the way

to unity and community.

Our village awaits

the return of those who thus roam.

Let poetry guide you home.

Leave hate behind.

Make easier your climb,

unfettered by false letters

in tweets and squeaks

by cowards, hour upon hour.

Such false facts weigh you down

more than personal adversity.

Community will share the load,

no matter how hard your road.

Love, not hate, always finds its way.

Come home.

Come home.

Come home.

Today.

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MY REPUBLICAN DAD

ANGELO ANNARINO,SR. WITH DAUGHTER LOUISE

“I just need 11,000 votes.”

“Give me a break.”

Sounds eerily like saying to my daddy,

when I was just a wee lassie,

“I just need $5.00.”

And my Republican dad would reply,

“And I need a hole in my head!”

And that was the end to that.

Because, I had sense 

to know when the game was up,

to know I had lost,

to know I was on my own.

And because, I knew I could do

what I needed to do on my own

I’d get on with life and make it great.

I did not need fawning crowds

shouting hateful slogans aloud

at my Dad, who was right to deny

my weak-kneed pleas to ease my need

for the latest toy, candy, or cookie delight.

My Republican dad believed 

in working his way using his labor and mind

to put food on our table and a roof overhead.

He did not run scams on neighbors

nor friends, nor even total strangers.

My Republican dad, whose Democratic friends

exchanged ideas with him every day

on how to keep our nation great

kept an open mind and used it to find solutions

to unite and expand everyone’s rights

to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness;

especially, for his children and theirs.

My Republican dad would be turning in his grave.

A conscience stronger than partisanship

would not let him accept such gamesmanship.

I can hear his response to election deniers,

whining while shouting, debased town-criers,

“You talk like a man with a paper hat!”

And that, folks, would be that!

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