Personal Poetry

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Monday, August 16, 2010

Death

Death In the darkness and the cool Breathes a spirit come too soon For friends' and classmates' exhaling wind Blows upon our tender thoughts Yet in that air is held their joy, Held their love, Held their care Filling all our lungs and souls In the darkness and the cool Copyright © 2010 by C. P.... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

Text of letter sent to my state legislators on ending RGGI graft

August 15, 2010 I urge you to cosponsor A3147, or its Senate counterpart, to repeal the Global Warming Response Act of 2007 and withdraw New Jersey from the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI). It takes money from the people and gives it to shadowing, unaccountable agencies and their grossly... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, August 12, 2010

Instructions for New Bloggers

One such, BedOfRoses, asked for this and I thought it might be helpful for others, especially as it occurred to me, as I was going through the interface, that there might be a reason why so many new bloggers have no entries in their blogs after they have advertised their missing postings. These... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, August 10, 2010

Happy Birthday, Mr. President!

The President just celebrated his birthday and today was the birthday of a President who was also inexperienced, though widely regarded in Europe prior to his election, who also spent his Presidency on economic problems which his supporters claim were not of his doing, whose efforts were claimed to... Sign in to see full entry.

Saturday, August 7, 2010

Hammer & Nails

Hammers & Nails Isn't she a foolish woman and he an evil man To always use the public hammer Wherever and Whenever they can? Can't they see what we plainly see What all the world knows? Our nails are clearly private To someone, we suppose. But wasn't he the willing tool To let the private hammer... Sign in to see full entry.

Friday, August 6, 2010

Literature is Scripture

Literature is Scripture the Word of God proclaimed by prophet authors in the language of our time. Copyright © 2010 by C. P. Klapper Sign in to see full entry.

Monday, August 2, 2010

The Belgian's Symphony

The Belgian's Symphony And speaks to me from across the ages More fruitfully than words as the Spirit Passages through meaning of their Sound Music pierces directly to the Soul Performs its Life like spoken poems Flowers vaguely from the soiled earth Incomplete, imprecise, undefined, unprogrammed... Sign in to see full entry.

Sunday, August 1, 2010

A comment that should perhaps not be buried

in that it deals with the disease of partisan hate which has been afflicting our country. And, before any of you get on your partisan high horses, I am a populist, what many call a libertarian socialist, but which I call popular capitalist. These are the observations of a disgusted observer. I have... Sign in to see full entry.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

The shame of my illegal immigrant heritage

The shame of my illegal immigrant heritage I am a descendant of the illegal immigrants John Howland and Richard Warren. They did not have a job here before they came over, which they did with a boatload of radicals who were in trouble with the law in their native country. Some of their fellow... Sign in to see full entry.

Tuesday, July 27, 2010

Local

Local It is a matter of scope More than it is of kind And so I agree and disagree With those who rail against government With those who rail against business Yet it is not the scale of the big so much But the scope of operations big entails Making big government into national government Making big... Sign in to see full entry.

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