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Debora Tremont's avatar

Rant on! Well said.

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

Thanks, friend. I suppose it's not really a poem, but oh well. That's what I had yesterday.💜

Debora Tremont's avatar

I say it is a poem!

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

Wahoo! Good! Not very lyrical, however....

Kathleen Basheera Ritchie's avatar

Love it!

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

Thanks! I'm always a bit cautious and shy about putting my political views out there. But come on....

Arlene Szalay's avatar

Rave On John Donne! A song by Van Morrison.

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

Don't know it--I'll need to go listen to it!

Stephen T Berg's avatar

A precise rendering. The empire is collapsing from within; it almost seems too late to stem the moral, social and spiritual decay.

Amrita Skye Blaine's avatar

It makes me think of the McCarthy days. I was actually too young to know what was really going on--I was born in 1945--but it feels somewhat similar: fear-driven public persecution.