any other name for trump is white

 

my country

my country

what has become of thee

of our children

who is left to educate them

when their state no longer

cares…dares

the people our people are not

just made up of old white men

our people our beautiful people

are black, spanish, asian

every shade of beauty

what has happened to our middle class

who now pay their mortgage, barely

in taxes to a president

an old white rich man

with dementia

a so called man

a grifter, golfer

and a hater of all things

poor

and all you fools voted for him

in fear of a black woman

ENJOY!

 

-       Jude  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

sea to shining sea blues

 

i walked this land

from sea to shining sea

on a summer

a reality break

from nixon and the war

in viet nam

those of us who dared to remember

just to return to one of many marches

on washington

just to see the mass arrest of

we the people

so

where are today’s youth daring

caring to search for america

do they fly over their sea

to shining sea journey

do they drive their car

their car car in a musical historical

exception

on their summer break

from their president’s attempt

to rewrite the constitution

and empty the offices of those

who care  who dare to govern

to betray the people with

threats and too much money

where are their marches on washington

who dares

now!

today!

 

                                               - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

what care does take our dreams

 

sweet liberty

what has become of thee

using children

to arrest the parents

arresting students

who dare to speak

to believe

in peace

of citizens

of the constitution

sweet liberty

what has become of thee

as we all bow

to king trump

in his age addled mind

 

                                    -jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

simple

 

dance a child’s dance

sing a child’s song

dare to believe

in what is right

care to perceive

in what is wrong

simple

if one thinks

beyond one’s fears

 

                        - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

no compassion

 

everybody knows

the emperor has new clothes

as he stands and parades

naked as can be

it is what any

thinking person can see

who is this man

a soul who

carries no compassion

a man without pockets

a tree out of it’s season

whose leaves fall

to lie dead on the ground

as music with sound

 

                                    - jude

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

spirit rider

 

dream rhyme

when we dare

to talk of time

in the silence

dare we wait

seconds sound as

minutes sound as

hours

days pass as years

a spirit rider

dancing within the circle

of echoes

time within time

a place for poets

to sing their songs

to shatter the mirror

which holds the unseen

till all the years pass

into a dream rhyme

 

                        - jude

 

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