Tag: Ethics
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Nights In White Satin
Nights In White Satinby Moody Blues Nights in white satin,Never reaching the end,Letters I’ve written,Never meaning to send. Beauty I’d always missedWith these eyes before,Just what the truth isI can’t say anymore. ‘Cause I love you,Yes, I love you,Oh, how, I love you. Gazing at people,Some hand in hand,Just what I’m going thruThey can understand.…
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Maximum Efficiency – Judo
Maximum Efficiency – Judo A concept common toEastern martial artsOne I first learned inJudo classes from the start Maximum efficiencyUse of energyMotion and momentumLarge results withMinimum effortsAlso applying the physicsOf levers and fulcrums Another principle is:Aside from class warsOne’s only true enemyIs one’s selfNot your opponentAcross the mat orIn the street One must defeat one’s…
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Memoir Addendum – Old Symptoms Of Bronchitis Mostly Gone
Memoir Addendum – Old Symptoms Of Bronchitis Mostly Gone Spent most of my formative yearsTill the end of my first short marriageIn and around the glittering miasmaOf a small steel mill townAt the mouth of the Black RiverOn Lake Erie’s southern shore Walking home in the darkAfter late orchestra rehearsalsOr Judo classes and the likeThe…
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Love’s Magic Spell Or Love Potion No. … 9?
Love’s Magic Spell Or Love Potion No. … 9? Combinations of hormonesPheromones and desiresPleasing or seductivePersonalities andIntoxicating words A combination thatIf projected and overlaid wellWith our own mixedChemical hormonal stewProduces the enchantment ofLove How long can the enchantment lastKnowing full wellThe only constant in life is change? Depends on the strength ofThe ‘love cocktail’ andThe…
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When The Children Cry
When The Children Cryby White Lion Little childDry your crying eyesHow can I explainThe fear you feel inside? ‘Cause you were bornInto this evil worldWhere man is killing manAnd no one knows just whyWhat have we become?Just look what we have doneAll that we destroyedYou must build again When the children cryLet them know we…
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Carried Weapons vs Living Weapons
Carried Weapons vs Living Weapons People claim they feel safeCarrying knives or gunsThey’ve practiced longFor ease and accuracy But sometimesLeave them at homeDon’t carry themAround the houseMuch Then when out and aboutA practiced ne’er-do-wellOut of the blueSnatches your belovedPistol or knifeAnd uses it on you There’s always someone out thereBetter than youYou just hopeThey’re not…
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Tucson Loop – Last Tuesday In August
Tucson Loop – Last Tuesday In August The air was heavy and warmThe sky went throughThree distinct changesFrom the beginningTo the end First, it was a lowGray ceilingRandom drops ofSky-spittle hittingMy bare skin Not many ridersThis late in the morningI expected moreSaw a fewRoadrunners outDoing their chores A few hawks wereFlying lowTrolling the riverbedSaw one…
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Snipers
Snipers called heroesin this day and ageby governmentsthat employ themto take down theirenemies andany dissent in times gone bythey were not glorifiedbut identified aswhat they werebushwackerskilling from the shadowsa cowardly chore so raise your glasssalute the bushwackersthey’ll eliminate somany, many more –LE – 8/22/25 PS: Motivated by events from the news in alternative media detailing…
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Late August Sunday Morning Ride
Late August Sunday Morning Ride The 7:am airVery warm and dryWhite paintbrush dabsIn the northern skyLike waves-crestsOn a tranquil blueSea Long morning shadowsCast across our pathA strobelight effectDisorienting in its aspectDodging skinksSlow to react Saw a hawkI thinkToo far awayTo be sureCertainly lookedLike a hawkishLanding on thatDead tree branchAs it surveyedThe riverbedBelow Lots of bikers…
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The Milkyway
No, not the candy bar! The Milkyway pathway in the skyfrom our small cornerout on the peripheryto its center and beyondhorizontallybut can’t see theother sideprobably not evento the center perpendicularlyand tangentiallyat a multitudeof angles other galaxiesdistant luminouspinpricks inthe sparkling tapestryof the night sky but only ifLuna or otherastronomicalfireworkslike comets andartificial satellitesdon’t steal ourattention andimagination that…
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