the brash hermit

Great poem. RIP your loyal laptop! Hopefully in spite of the cost of RAM and storage these days the price wasn't too bad!

#Lonely words,
standing alone,
unaccompanied
by sight or sound.

Is it 'enough' anymore?

For you?
For 'them?'
For me?

#poetry #poems #writing #micropoetry

It's a great time of year to dream of warmer weather and blooming flowers. Great photo and prose!

Photo was taken at a beautiful spot near me a few years ago. Temperature: ~60F. Fog: Mystical.

A foggy river bend overgrown on both sides.

#Imperfection is natural,
go look at the #trees;
scarred yet standing,
like you and me.

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Shame on every soccer player who showed up to this.

Yep. They want an excuse to cancel elections and seize power totally.

Imagine how much nicer this country could be if Republicans weren't actively trying to destroy it and undermine it to cling to power.

This shit always sends me. Do these assholes really think Christ will return and thank them for starving people, killing people, demonizing and abusing immigrants, and being cruel heartless pieces of shit?

They aren't even following the teachings of Christ. They are just evil psychopaths.

When it does happen, it will be the single most patriotic thing he ever did for America.

Sullen faces
worn by #stress,
don't have to speak
yet still confess;

"no room to breathe,
no time to rest."

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"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." - Frederick Douglass in 1857

He was a true American patriot.

If Thiel wants to find the anti-christ he should buy a mirror. Dude is a psychopath.

So while it might be harder to boycott Palantir as consumers, we sure as hell can make it harder for them to get data they need to function.

Precisely. Also don't forget Flock cameras. You can fight against them locally by banning municipalities from using them.

People can also remove/return/destroy their Ring cameras, as Ring is working with ICE to get footage from the cloud.

The only reasonable response to the atrocities committed by ICE agents is complete dissolution of the agency.

If you want to re-form a similar immigration agency afterwards, there must be a rigorous hiring process to weed out previous offenders and those with ties to extremist organizations.

This is so crucial and hasn't really been talked about enough. If we allow Trump, his family, and his friends to keep the proceeds from their corruption they will remain a standing threat to this country. This is the level of corruption that destroys countries.

This isn't about immigration. It's about creating an engine of domestic oppression, where AI-assisted mass surveillance directs thugs to deal with 'problem people' for the regime. If we don't stop this we are cooked as a free society. I know things are already bad, but they can get worse. Stand up.

Headlights passing
on a #dark country road,
each one wondering
where the other one goes.

#poetry #poems #writing #micropoetry #vss365 #prompt

"If you don't like it leave it,"
speaks the status quo,
that never wants to change,
evolve, or grow.

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A Land Called the United States I come from a land called the United States; “where everyone is ‘free’ to determine their own fate,” “where ‘hard work’ a hammer and nails, built great empires of road and rail." I come from a land called the United States; "’selected by god’ and the hand of fate, to spread the light of freedom in his name." I come from a land called the United States; where the least who can stand it bear the brunt of the weight, but they can get the help they seek and the hand they need, so long as they're willing to kill and bleed. I come from a land of war and peace; of the ball and chain and the sweet release, that to hold a few above keeps many more beneath, while it shackles the young to the cost of their dreams. I come from a land of shock and awe; where the battle never ends and the wounds are always raw, that celebrates brutality and heartless cults of man, who are the first to form a fist and the last to lend a hand. I come from a land that worships fame and wealth; that forsakes the common bonds of man for the sake of self, that exalts the wants of few above the many’s need, who break the ties that bind for the sake of power and greed. I come from a land where you can speak your heart and mind; whether your opinion and power are aligned, injustice must be challenged whatever be endured, whether first you find the courage, the vision, or the words. I come from a land seized by ignorance and fear; dancing with the darkness and the ghosts of yesteryear, that forgets in time how empires rise and fall, recurring words of warning echo down the hall. I come from a land called the United States; where everyone is free to determine their own fate, land of light and liberty though the hour may feel late, know there is still time to change your heart, and your state. @thebrashhermit.bsky.social

I originally wrote this one years ago and shelved it because I thought it was too over-the-top. Maybe it still is, but I'm going to publish it anyways.

Patriotism means criticizing your country when necessary for the sake of trying to improve it.

#poetry #poems #writing #America #USA #politics

It's a complete debasement of the human experience and is inherently anti-human.

It's hard to see the stars,
harder still to find your purpose,
when you're blinded by the glow
from the #electric circus.

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I don't know what I'm looking at it, but it somehow simultaneously horrifies and delights me.

Thanks Mr. Penguin, and thank you Dave!

The dialectrician’s despotic diatribe
supercharged the servile scribe,
who left the event #electrified,
current coursing through his eyes.

#poetry #poems #writing #micropoetry #FreeVerseFebruary #alliteration #electric
@daveashleypoet.bsky.social

I like the feeling after I run. When I get about halfway through I usually go to myself 'what the fuck am I doing to myself?"

In the maternal arms
of the breaking dawn;
forever moving forward,
forever moving on.

#poetry #poems #writing #micropoetry #tomorrow #hope #sunrise

Can I get a 'Fuck ICE' from the people?

The maple tree
speaks to me
in sighs and groans,

as the winter wind
shakes the snow
from its weary,
wooden bones.

#poetry #poems #writing #micropoetry #winter #snow #nature