“Boxing Gloves”
Painting by John Robertson
From johnrobertsonsportsart.com
go ahead if you dare
tell me just what to think
take apart my beliefs
get it out of your system
your currycombed scorn
then put up your guard
be prepared to be flayed
by the words I will choose
for my counterattack that
will tear you to rags and
then burn you to blisters
don’t be lulled by
my gentle affinities
I give no quarter
I never start fights
I just finish them
“What’s right and good doesn’t come naturally. You have to stand up and fight for it – as if the cause depends on you, because it does.” – Bill Moyers
Poesy plus Polemics 
Never throw the first punch…you have put my old Dad’s mantra to poetical form with massive word power!
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My dad would always say “walk softly and carry a big stick.”
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a wise quote
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Great piece, some things are just worth fighting for!
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yes, indeed
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A very wise and honest warning, it just goes to show that some of us would rather throw out our words of kindness and tolerance for others yet we will fight for what is right with our words, if it simply doesn’t budge.
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we need to live our words
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If you can’t back it up, shut it up!. Very spirited post my friend! Feisty!
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sometimes I get that way
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That’s a good thing!
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Surgical . . .
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Uh-oh.
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sometimes you just gotta put up your dukes
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If I could, I’d fly you out here to use your “dukes”–or just glare good–at my neighbors….Somehow I just know you’d wither them, and peace would reign in CrazyLand.
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I’d give them the mal’occhio – the evil eye
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I’d forgotten about the mal’occhio–that just might work….
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‘Don’t tread on my soft spot’, with a vengeance. Know the feeling!
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