Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Your Rights!

Picture Credit: Google images

Standing tall, sprightly
Sensibly upright,uptight
Doubting unlikely

Believe in wisdom
Unwavering in our stand
Not complicated

Discard the bile and
Stamp our rights, brook no nonsense
Relieve the baggage

Salvage the muddle
Forever in control keep
The good flag flying


Written for Poets United #7 with antonyms Doubt/Believe and Wisdom/Nonsense as prompt shared with d'Verse OpenLinkNights
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17 comments:

  1. Pat HattJuly 17, 2012 at 5:44 AM

    Blah to the bile
    That is just vile
    And yeah the right flag should fly
    First, first, ahead of that Brian guy!

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  2. kaykualaJuly 17, 2012 at 6:23 AM

    Welcome on being first
    A familiar outburst
    Brian is around
    Maybe with a little frown

    Hank

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  3. HannahJuly 17, 2012 at 6:49 AM

    Great message, Hank!! I love these two lines to be neighbors:

    "Relieve the baggage

    Salvage the muddle"

    good sound play plus I just love muddle!

    :)'s to you!!

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  4. Brian MillerJuly 17, 2012 at 8:53 AM

    there is good wisdom in that....keep short accounts so the baggage does not build up as well...the world will be a much more beautiful place...smiles....

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  5. DaydreamertooJuly 17, 2012 at 9:12 AM

    Ahh... life's excess baggage, if only it was as easy as it sounds to dump it :)

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  6. MaryJuly 17, 2012 at 9:37 AM

    I enjoyed this, Hank! I think you take a 'no nonsense' approach to life. Getting rid of baggage and bile is so important!

    (Thanks for linking to vice/versa!)

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  7. ayalaJuly 17, 2012 at 11:22 AM

    Great wisdom here, Hank. Nice write!

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  8. GraceJuly 17, 2012 at 4:14 PM

    I believe in that ~ Keep the good flag flying ~

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  9. SemaphoreJuly 17, 2012 at 4:51 PM

    A straightforward approach to living life espoused in this verse. Keep writing, keep believing!

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  10. Al-ManarJuly 17, 2012 at 6:08 PM

    Somehow I seem to see where this is most applicable at this moment in time - very subtle. But of course we may interprete a poem differently, right?

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  11. Day DreamerJuly 17, 2012 at 8:40 PM

    Interesting poem! Prelude to a revolution!

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  12. AnonymousJuly 17, 2012 at 8:41 PM

    Salvage the muddle! Good luck with that! k.

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  13. ClaudiaJuly 17, 2012 at 9:02 PM

    yep...keep the good flag flying...and getting rid of what burdens us is important for sure

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  14. VictoriaJuly 17, 2012 at 10:56 PM

    I like what I read as irony in "sensibly upright, uptight." Makes me remember there is usually a disagreement about whose flag is good.

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  15. Dave KingJuly 18, 2012 at 1:22 AM

    The two central stanzas make a strong core to this fine poem.

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  16. Vaishali JainJuly 18, 2012 at 2:28 PM

    Yo! I, too, believe the same - keep
    the good flag flying! I liked the rhythm of it. :)

    @Pat Hatt - LOLzz

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  17. BeachannyJuly 18, 2012 at 3:22 PM

    How true! I will repeat what Hannah said, "Great message". I wrote something similar for the 4th here:
    http://beachanny.blogspot.com/2012/07/july-4-2012-us.html
    Seems we'd like to have a little more agreement and less polarization.

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