2012 Election Map
By Wall Street Journal
stark arctic Aleutians
steamy tropical keys
mighty arms holding
liberty out to the world
as totalitarians seethe
at their fingertips
shivering sweltering
punishing remnants
of dead Marxist dogma
sustained by resentment
of personal enterprise
shouted across narrow
waters so close yet
so far mere proximity
helpless to overcome
doctrinaire minds
meanwhile here in
the heartland our
pluralist strengths
undergo a malicious
conversion to weakening
forces inflicting
diseases of deepened
divides between
free-hating factions
that threaten to leave
this exquisite geography
uglified chopped into
isles of intransigent
red and blue stains
Poesy plus Polemics 
At least your land is bonded together still which ever way the pendulum swings. We only have – in effect – for lands making up the UK and by September that may well be just the three!
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no man made bond can hold forever
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Two thoughts: Sarah Palin said she knows Russia well, since she woke up every morning looking across the water at Siberia!’ That’s about the way it is in tribal ghettos across the land . . . And second: capricious people prefer chaos over community since it represents an opportunity for illicit profit – sociologically and politically . . . Smear enough blue and red around and you’d think you’d get purple! But not so: black and white do not make for gray . . .
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interestingly, she understood Putin quite well
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it’s the story of the street angel house devil, stuff we pretend not to notice, perhaps we need to remind ourselves more often, great set of words, blessings
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thank you kindly
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your poetry hits the spot, you have a gift, amen
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Reblogged this on OUR POETRY CORNER.
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thank you for sharing my poem with your readers
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sadly, poignantly true.
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poignant truth is the stuff of poetry
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Reblogged this on Poesy plus Polemics.
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Paul, this is brilliant. Thank you for reposting it. I missed it last time.
meanwhile here in
the heartland our
pluralist strengths
undergo a malicious
conversion to weakening
Right on point!
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much appreciated
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