By: Shekhar Srinivasan
With a foot-long hair and a ghastly beard,
A constipated grimace appearing weird,
An orange dress and a stick to bear,
A false mask on the outside, they wear,
Claiming to know the art of living,
Through the path of charity giving,
Exploiting the weak minds of society,
Use the same charity to earn their living,
Selling themselves as priests of spirituality,
Driving people away from objective reality,
Extorting a hefty fee under the ambit of God,
The saintly garb and their business at odds,
Hiring corporate managers for marketing & finance,
Extorting the money in full advance,
To run their show, they put up a fake stance,
To their tunes, they make the people dance,
People wake up and please rise,
To stop the pervading menace of this surprise,
Using the gifted power of choice,
Become healthy, wealthy and wise.
Shekhar Srinivasan
Daily Quote: All in the dark we grope along,
And if we go amiss
We learn at least which path is wrong,
And there is gain in this.
We do not always win the race
By only running right;
We have to tread the mountain's base
Before we reach its height.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Posted by V. Mahfood - 2011
By: Butch Phillipps, Copyright © 2011 - All rights reserved.
Believing that there is no other.
Claiming that they have the fix,
While always playing politics.
...
Along the way they sell their soul,
Allowing others to shape and mold.
At this point in politics,
It all turns into PoliTricks.
...
Motivated by going toe to toe,
Having no mercy on their foe.
All the time they fight and fight,
While conquering all with their might.
...
Divide and conquer that's their way,
Only concern is to survive another day.
Self consumed to the bone,
Not realizing much is unknown.
...
People just toys with whom they play,
Twisting words and spinning all day.
They tell you this and then do that,
Hypocrites all so watch your back.
...
Always telling us what we think,
while taking the country to the brink.
Without asking they do our bid,
If this were true they would be rid.
...
What we need is people of honor,
To serve us every waking hour.
It's time to put the country first,
Maybe a dream but quench my thirst.
...
And all this time they’ve lost sight,
It's for the people they should fight.
Claiming that they have the fix,
Be wary of their PoliTricks.
Butch Phillipps, Copyright © 2011 - All rights reserved.
Daily Quote: Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize. ~Saul Bellow
Linguist Corner-SPANISH: repasar, verb / to check; to revise
Repasar refers to checking or going over something, such as accounts or a bill as well as reviewing something.
- Repase la factura antes de firmarla.
Check the invoice before signing it.
- Continúa repasando los apuntes hasta el último segundo.
He goes on reviewing his notes right up to the last minute.
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Posted by V. Mahfood - 2011
By: Robert Anderson
sullen on a stairwell
remaining quiet and dead
a lonely angel in her tears
condemned what love had bled
it was when beauty rang as true
beyond a darkened storm
that through a dream which bloomed and bloomed
she took an earthly form
embracing what true offerings
our realm just may extend
when chasing what she longed to have
a lifetime she would spend
to have and hold the heart of one
who promised her a life
which would not veil her deep in gloom
and yet he drew a knife
that aimed to see what may derive
from there within her heart
and as he twisted it in her
it tore her world apart
and so she turned that knife away
to bury it in him
then doubted she could trust again
as dreams do ripen dim
Robert Anderson
Daily Quote: "One should rather die than be betrayed. There is no deceit in death. It delivers precisely what it has promised.
Betrayal, though ... betrayal is the willful slaughter of hope."
--Steven Deitz
Linguist Corner-FRENCH: borné / narrow-minded / adjective
Example:
- French: Je dirais tout simplement qu'il est borné et que cela rend les choses difficiles.
- English: I would simply say that he is narrow-minded and it makes things difficult.
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Posted by V. Mahfood - 2010
