because tomorrow is Election Day in the U. S. A.
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Posted by tenzenmen | November 4, 2024, 7:46 AMI voted ten seventeen
glad to help another learn
one good deed, to help another
it’s only the world, after all
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Posted by Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld | November 4, 2024, 8:11 AMLovely! Thanks for voting, Lisa!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | November 4, 2024, 6:34 PMThank you 😊
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Posted by Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld | November 5, 2024, 8:50 AMI wrote this after seeing a friend’s Facebook post, coupled with the “Vote Now” prompt. It’s not a particularly strong poem, and so not really looking for in-depth reviews. Just more sharing in case it resonates with anybody. Happy Election Day!
So I Vote Now (To The One Who Abstains)
There is a person I know who believes being a “humanist” grants her a pass out of political participation. Motivated by a desire for united harmony, claiming there is no divide (it’s only an “illusion”), and that there is no moral equivalency: both parties (and Parties, capital P) are fallible, imperfect, therefore, she proclaims, on patriotic principle, she shall abstain from voting. But this all seems to me redolent of civic immaturity, and, given current circumstances, a willful recklessness and blindness towards our continuing a democracy. Every election there is, I vote. But these years, top to bottom, as fascism and authoritarianism haunt our ways, from the Right and hate is preached, from the Right I vote with only enhanced commitment: because, between the two contenders, there is no comparison. She is right, in that injustice has been rendered dnder both political parties, and injustice should always be called out on, no matter the “who.” But there is a monumental difference between the he and the she, the convicted felon and the prosecutor, the insane and the sane, and uniting people demands action, and more than a passing smile. So I vote now. For it’s not just about me, it’s absolutely also about the “We.” So I vote now. It’s about my neighbors’ kids, who will inherit this injured planet. So I vote now. It’s about the clerks at the grocery stores, who, alone, cannot afford basic housing. So I vote now. It’s about my women friends who want to identify with powerful mythic goddesses. So I vote now. It’s about everything and everyone. So I vote now. It’s about my version of humanism. So I vote now!
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Zinnia (She/Her/Hers)
Be boldly well Be boldly kind Be boldly you
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Posted by Laura Holley | November 5, 2024, 12:04 PMYeah, definitely need to punch up the poetry on that one somehow. Political poems are notoriously difficult. Thanks for sharing!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | November 5, 2024, 7:54 PMMy ancestors fought black, blue, and red for my right to vote.
Wouldn’t they be so proud to see me going freely going to my precinct to cast my ballot?
Are they proud to know that they fought so hard for this right that our others rights could be stripped away?
We are still fighting to just exist in a country that hates us but can’t explain why.
We are still praying for freedom and peace and unity that’s further away than a full moon.
And wouldn’t they know that their children won’t give up.
It’s in our blood to fight. It’s in our blood to be victorious.
They didn’t give up, and neither should we.
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Posted by Mia J | November 8, 2024, 6:14 AMLove it! Especially the “further away than a full moon”. Keep fighting!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | November 8, 2024, 7:07 PM