Some seek the greater good e’er to promote
While some beyond themselves can never see,
Pathetic plight endemic fails to note
The need for more compassionate to be;
Raw, surfeit human senses tend to dull,
To taste, to touch, to smell, to see or hear,
No time the possibility to mull,
A future destitution spell to fear;
The needy know their bounty to embrace,
Oft willing with their fellowmen to share;
Commendable to see such selfless grace,
Ennobling gift engraved in mutual care;
Perceptive let the Present them inform,
Unwholesome to the Wholesome can transform!
© Meanderings 2016
beautiful use of words. Hats off to you indeed, Babs x ❤
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Thanks Luv! Hugs. 💞💞
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“Some seek the greater good e’er to promote
While some beyond themselves can never see,”
very astute and meaningful words, especially pertinent at this time. 🙂
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Thanks P! Yes, I’m very conscious of the timeliness. 😉Hugs. ❤️
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fingers crossed as sleep arrives tonight…tomorrow may change the world. A bit of drama here, but no joke! yikes!
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Keeping Fingers Crossed! Hugs! ❤
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I dreamed Hillary pulled it off at the last moment. Well the people have spoken…far be it from me to hint hat the voters are stupid. 🙂 hmmm, maybe we can be pals with the rooskis afterall.
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Sad! God help us. 😕
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indeed…we’ll see what happens now…he has threatened some stuff that if he follows through could be devastating. A true test of our democracy! His lemmings will follow off a slippery slope I’m afraid.
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Proof of the pudding lies in the eating….Let’s observe the feast… 😉 Hugs!
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ah, half the people always hate the gov’ment anyway. By the way, Hillary Clinton DID win the popular vote, apparently. But the electoral college, which is supposed to protect from bad guys, once again delivers someone different than the one people voted for.
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Yeah….happened before. 😉 Hugs!
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something of a paradox here…the “educated elite” is the side doing the rioting, I shudder to think what would have happened had the “others” won. 🙂
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This may merely be the beginning. Fingers Crossed!!!! Hugs!
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The weather is still warmish and pleasant…great nights for civil unrest. And these are the “sane” faction marching… ha ha. college students and the like…never a dull moment on this side of the pond.
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actually our “forefathers” like Alexander Hamilton, for example, foresaw the problems with allowing “the people” to truly choose their own leaders…and safeguards are built into the constitution “just in case.” The electoral college has yet to vote officially…highly unlikely they would break tradition and fail to confirm the election-night vote…but as in Murphy’s Law anything can happen.
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Pigs may not fly…but that does not mean that they can’t make a beginning…That will be a real ‘turn-up’ for the books…. 😉
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wow! just think what THAT would mean if the electors try to change the outcome. It could be done…and the reasoning of the old-timers sure does seem to hint at the cause now! But Christie is out and the “kids” are in…and the Trumpeter is going to renege on his promises…just as I predicted.
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Fate works in a mysterious way. 😉Hugs. 😎
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well, the good guys are rioting now…imagine what would happen if the other faction were to jump into the fray
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Armageddon could be beckoning… 😉 Hugs!
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pigs could fly if they wore little rocket-gear…there’s a commercial like that “advert” you might say…the kid builds a rocket-vest for his pet pig to prove some point or other. Very clever. hahaha
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Clever, yes. Hugs. 💞
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lets just hope the Thanksgiving Turkey makes it. 🙂
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Fingers Crossed!!! 😉
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I hope he lets his “kids” play with the government instead of the likes of Christie and Guliani…most of his fellow republicans hate him, so we’ll see.
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❤
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hope he doesn’t try to follow up on his threats to prosecute Ms. Clinton…shades of some despot dark dictator…yikes
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Power Corrupts! Absolute Power corrupts absolutely…. 😉 Hugs!
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yep, evil lurks in thehearts of men, as Lamont Cranston used to say. Indeed, the Shadow knows!
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Indeed….The Shadow knows…. Hugs!
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always reminds me of a time lying on the floor on my stomach…coloring in a color book, listenting to the radio shows. Sunday afternoon fun.
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Hugs!
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Great words today.
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Thanks Peter…. 🙂
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Yes, a sonnet that conjures up images of all that’s both right and wrong over the whole refugee situation. Sharply phrased!
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Very timely indeed! Beautiful poem! Hugs ❤
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Thanks Jill! Keeping Fingers Crossed! Hugs! ❤
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‘The need for more compassionate to be..’
Good! Thanks
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We do dearly need more compassion – and yet sadly each day we seem to move further from a world that exhibits this most important trait. have a beautiful and creative day….janet. xxx
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Thanks Janet! Too true…a quality that is being marginalised like ‘Tolerance’ and ‘Patience’… 😦 Have a lovely Day! Hugs! ❤
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