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Bereft Of Hope

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If you feel bereft of hope

In view of those who lead

Not by honor

But deceit;

Hold on to the voice of people

Rising

To relieve

Those who cherish false and greed

From the path of harm

They have conceived.

Be strong

Even as you are now

Understandably

Bereaved.

For there will be better days

Ahead

Where heart

Over current swamp,

Succeeds.

 

 

Merriam-Webster’s word for August 5, 2018:

Bereft

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Inchmeal by Inchmeal

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Inchmeal by inchmeal

We can reclaim

Lost sanity.

Small step by small step

We can restore

What this recent time had

Hammered in brutality.

The foundations are still there

Trusting rescue

Shaken but resistant.

Inchmeal by inchmeal

We can bring back home

Revive

Transform

The currently abandoned

Humanity.

 

 

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 26, 2018:

Inchmeal

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Behemoth

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The sheer size of injustice

May derail many a

Courage,

But the sure footed will know

There’s much room to

Encourage,

For heft can usurp power

But does not need mean

Might,

When the small but the many

Can prove stronger in a

Fight.

 

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 25, 2018:

Behemoth

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Festinate Hope

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May justice make haste

To reclaim what once graced

But has since been debased

By a swamp that laid waste

And all ethics replaced.

May the truth festinate

Removal of greed and hate

To restore facts misplaced

By those who greatness erased.

 

 

Merriam-Webster’s word for July 22, 2018:

Festinate

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Timely Sign

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It is a sign of the times

It is a heartache due noting

And why all must not minimize

The essential role of fair voting.

 

For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge

 

Lambaste Injustice

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There are times when to pummel

A wrongness with words

Is a must.

If another is silenced

And their voice thrown

To dust,

Then lambasting the cruelty

Is the way to be

Just.

 

(Note: Photo taken today at the Families Belong Together March in NYC)

 

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 30, 2018:

Lambaste

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Defenestration

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When corruption reaches levels

That even present swamps

Cannot contain

There comes a time

To open windows

And expel the source of pain.

 

 

Merriam-Webster’s word for June 14, 2018:

Defenestration

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Make a River

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Make this rivulet

Of hope

Into a river

Of change.

Let a movement

For kindness

And the trickle

Of sooth,

Become a wave

Blue and wide enough

To hold the full depths

Of what should have always been

Self-evident truths.

 

 

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