The Okcitykid - A Peaceful Vet

From Midnight Muse

JUST 24 LINES

Why only 24 lines
How do you tell the times in just 24 lines
Is the word of song so sad that you only bear to read
24 lines
After 24 we are old and a bore
Reading so much can make you sore

How do I describe a tree
Bird in flight
or the sea
In just 24 lines

Commercialism sound bites raised we
Any more is just an impossibility

Feelings flow pages and pages
Explain the pain
Excitement
The insane

But you want only 24 lines
How boring you must be
Such an existence for me
Would be insanity

By: Roger Harkness
The Okcitykid A Peaceful Vet

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Have you ever been asked to submit a poem to a poetry contest and so you sit down and write your poem and try to submit it, but it is rejected because it is more than 24 lines, well I did and it irritated me, so I wrote this in response and submitted it, I don’t think it won.

I’ve been doing this for about a month now, publishing a poem of mine each day, but because I accidently deleted all that, I will go one forward and one back.

INDIAN DRESS

She was wearing an indian dress
I must confess
My eyes were took
Her name is Dawn
Rightly so
Her smile brings up the sun
An embrace that rises the blood
She gets on top
always ontop of everything
She rocks
Then we came together
She wears an indian dress
My eyes are took
You can guess the rest
There is no one like her
Not another
Smaller than most
Stronger than many

By: Roger Harkness

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I wrote this for my current wife.  There was a dress she used to wear for me a lot, it fit her very well, so I wrote her this.  I don’t have a picture of that dress, but the picture above is even better you think.  From her dance class as a teenager.

This used to be one of my most popular poems because it seemed that when someone searched for an indian dress, my poem would show up in the search engine.  It was generating a lot of traffic.

http://andrewforoklahoma.com/newsroom_details.asp?id=1145

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Rice: Who is holding corporations accountable in Washington?

OKLAHOMA CITY — Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Andrew Rice said Tuesday that a report from the Government Accountability Office shows how special interests have hijacked U.S. tax codes at the expense of tax cuts for working families and incentives for new energy development.

Each year between 1998 and 2005, over 65% of foreign-owned U.S. corporations paid no income tax, with a high of 71.7% in 2001, according to the GAO’s report.

“This report shows that more than 60 percent of U.S. corporations have been paying no corporate income tax from 1998 to 2005,” Rice said. “Washington is giving million-dollar handshakes to big businesses, but they’re giving working Oklahoma families the cold shoulder.”

Rice also blamed Washington leaders for allowing tax law to benefit U.S. companies that move overseas.

“Not only are most corporations not paying income tax, but multinational companies that relocate American jobs overseas don’t have to pay taxes on the income that those foreign workers generate,” Rice said. “Washington has to get its priorities straight. We should be granting tax breaks to companies that keep jobs right here on American soil.”

“There is clearly a lack of accountability in Washington, which is one of the main reasons I am running for the U.S. Senate,” Rice said. “This is why we need a U.S. Senator who changes with the times and is not stuck in the partisan politics of the last 22 years.”

Rice said Jim Inhofe recently voted against expansion of the child tax credit for working families and assorted tax incentives for alternative energy, but he consistently supports the Bush tax cuts for big business.

“Sen. Inhofe and his friends in Washington have allowed corporations to write themselves out of the tax code while leaving working families to pick up the tab,” Rice said.

Rice said that, as U.S. Senator, he will fight for expanded tax cuts for working families and push for Congressional hearings to examine the full range of corporate giveaways implemented during the Bush years.

Paid for and Authorized by Andrew Rice for US Senate, Inc.

Karina Henderson
Rice for US Senate
www.andrewforoklahoma.com

I destroyed my blog AGAIN. For the third time now I find I am redoing it.  But I think I found a nicer theme.

They say to become a popular blogger, you have to blog on just one thing, but you see, there are two kinds of people; those who are technical and notice all the little details but fail to see the big picture; and then there are people like me who see the big picture but fails to notice all the details.

In an attempt to be technical I have decided that this is a PRP blog.  While that might sound technical, the truth is, this blog is about Poetry, Religion and People and I would say, that about covers the big picture.

So as I jump around testing linux, sharing gardening tips and telling love stories, complaining about the Bush administration and the do nothing Democrats.  Sharing my poem of the day.  Wordpress is very good allowing you to use catagories and providing a really good search engine for your blog.  So if you came here looking for something in particular, you might just find it here, but you’ll have to look for it and hopefully it will be there and I won’t destroy this blog again.