“US Capitol Dome” Photo by Brendan Reals
the capitol dome
a classically vaulted
much vaunted
proscenium venue
reduced to enactment
of glib civic mockery
broken burlesque
performed daily
the price of admission
one tiny torn scrap
of old parchments
your citizen’s share
of the friable scrip
whose articulate
principles once
evoked reverence
beheld as democracy’s
secular scripture
Writer Lynne Sargent
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I am where the valleys are deep, the mountains are high, and the wind moans through trees...
rejuvenatement - not retirement
Poesy plus Polemics 
Two more rings and they’d have a circus.
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What about those funny hats an little mini bikes..
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They’ve already got jugglers and clowns aplenty.
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i was talking about the freemasons..
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Ah.
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well, if you add the executive and judicial branches….
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That’s one huge dysfunctional circus. The Ringmaster has his hands full.
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i must honestly say dear sir you’ve lost me on this one!
chris
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dysfunctional government
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Hell yeah!
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In that that two word metaphor, ‘broken burlesque’ I think you have outdone Hemingway in terms of an even shorter, short book on the subject of modern day politics, there where you are, here and just about everywhere!
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this new millennium has gotten off to a miserable start
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Excellent!!
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much appreciated
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It looks great on House of Cards. Do you notice how the shadow covers everything? I am afraid it may fall much like the cards referenced above.
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there’s good reason for the fear
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Reminds me of the condition of Jerusalem’s Temple when someone named Yeshua stepped up and gave the leadership a piece of his mind . . .
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amen to a cleansing – and a boot to the money changers that now strangle our politics
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Sad the present mockery of once hallowed objects. Your poem is pure testament to where we’ve arrived.
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sad but true
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