This Poem was Submitted By: James C. Horak On Date: 2010-01-23 09:25:06 . . . Click Here To Mail this Poem to a Friend!To Listen to Music While Reading this Poem, just Click Here!
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The Madness of Agenda They cannot recognize contradiction
nor
See the beauty in conflicting presentation
They can cast the first, the second, the third
stone
While standing on every point leaving no one alone
Judging without precision, much less loving intention
They harbor more hatred, more self deceit than any invention
of gods or demon.
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Copyright © January 2010 James C. Horak
Additional Notes:
In fond acknowledgement of Albert (fantasimo)Gore, Acorn, The Southern Poverty Law Center, the framers of
the current Health Care Bill, proponents of protectng the heroin trade created in Afghanistan (like they
did in Viet Nam,) Zionism, proponents for putting mercury in people's teeth, the conventional cancer
treatments using the very intruments that cause cancer the most, those giving Standard Oil its way in
meddling in foreign policy, those that would sacrifice every quality of life for a false sense of security
sold to them by those most likely creating the perceptual "emergencies" they so fear...not to mention a
hundred other concerns just as mindless.
By the way, I'm not in the contest so a vote for me is a dead one towards influencing outcome. I'll understand this thinking and be satisfied with a simple acknowledgment...if you feel moved to give it.
(Not that I'm that close to four excellent poems I can name in the contest already.)
JCH
This Poem was Critiqued By: Duane J Jackson On Date: 2010-02-06 21:40:56
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Hi James,
This sums up very well, the infestation of arrogance, deceit and self centerdness (if there is such a word) of those who occupy positions of power. You highlight their manipulative ways and one can very easily realte. It happenes all over the world (in India too...corruption is a plague). This makes your poem one of the more socially relevant ones we have among the posts this month.
I also went through your additional notes, Very grim. Thankfuly, we as a community of poets are empowered to make a difference through example. I guess it would take an alien invasion to unify us...so that some sort of earth mentality sinks in...
Take care,
Duane.
This Poem was Critiqued By: DeniMari Z. On Date: 2010-01-27 15:44:10
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 9.94737
JC you never fail to make me smile - a strong protest on the foundation we as people are forced to stand on right now. Very solid message - yet with all the protests being made it's as if it's all being said to deaf ears.
What can we really do except sit back and be dismayed by it all?
blessings,
Deni
This Poem was Critiqued By: Lora Silvey On Date: 2010-01-24 19:40:48
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Yes James, you've said a mouthful here and in true James fashion. It seems it is always easier to create or hypothisis a problem that has already had a solution constructed for it; sort of working backwards and then it is spooned out in small doses to create the appearance of some major theroms and resolutions. Unfortunately there are far too many who are/or have been, taught to except and not use discerning judgment; perhaps that is why the public as a whole has become so easily fleeced. Excellent write, good metaphors and nicely paced. Keep speaking out, truth is truth regardless of how others want to color it. No nits or spags, very good. Lora
This Poem was Critiqued By: Terry A On Date: 2010-01-23 18:23:48
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Haiti -so much of your poem. The part left out by mainstream media -how the country's corrupt leadership had put its people in destitution long before the earthquake. How much of the world-wide donations to help the people will actually reach them? How much will be funelled off to its rich government and its supporters?
Canada, fast-tracking delivery of orphans to couples who feel they are doing their part by helping one child? When the millions there, who would do a better job of raising their own, see their children starving.
And Hilary Clinton, tying up food delivery for a fucking photo op? And the lucrative rebuilding contracts, where will they go? There are even those who doubt the earthquake was natural. (I pray that second technology does not have that power.)
The tears of the world fall everywhere now.
Terry
This Poem was Critiqued By: Mark Steven Scheffer On Date: 2010-01-23 15:29:05
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Keep it going, James. I "wait" for the day I turn my pen again to these types of political issues. If the poem doesn't come from inside, it shouldn't be written. Perhaps my failure to write on these issues shows a deficiency in my character - but that's all I have to write from.
As Stevens's said in "Mozart 1935," "Be thou the voice." For now.
MSS
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