17

[the mingo]

17

Go ahead, strive for the crayon with shrill trigger fingers
I conclude you can shut the bees in
but can't keep them from being bees

displays of dialogue solve nothing
it's just a wild hobby and turns everyone
into french-fried people or snipers with insecurities
many think God gullible or likely to be astonished by our wit

what we think stinks

I hear the train
and there it goes
it appears we missed it
but we go on coloring
we color & color
faster & faster
hoping a mask, any mask, will hold

[saw]

bravo...much to ponder here
creative descriptions pull you in

"when I was a boy of fourteen,
my father was so ignorant I could barely stand
to have the old man around.
But when I got to be twenty one,
I was astonished at much he had learned in seven years."

.................Mark Twain................

[mnaz]

I'd rather have the dialogue than not have, but yeah.

[the mingo]

saw, I remember that Twain quote - it's a good one. * *

[creativesoul]

Treehouses are on my mind- and a river rafting adventure
No talking in the canoe
I want to hear the water and the sound of water
I do not care about your childhood
Here in nature where all things matter
I want to listen and hear the truth
I want to remember the days of my youth
The sun will fall on my shoulders and hair
And all the beauty that ever existed there
I want to love the day as I loved as a child
With joy and laughter and fearless happiness
Trust and safety and precious timeless love
I will be a grandmother
I will read Mark Twain to my grandson
I will do whatever the universe asks of me
I gifted him a drum
The heartbeat
He will be born any minute
17
I was 17 when I fell in love the first time
And a few times after that
But nothing can compare to this..

[the mingo]

I'd rather have the dialogue than not have,

I hear that, Mark, but we've had the dialogue, after every school shooting we get the "dialogue" - after the recent Florida shooting, the day after in fact,
I saw the headline "A Survivor's Story" and ... how many times I heard that? How many more times I got to hear it? I understand the positive use of the Second Amendment, I understand why it was written in the first place and I understand its place in the Bill of Rights. I understand its intent. What I don't understand is students gunned down by weapons of war in the name of the 2nd Amendment. There is no way in any hell the founding fathers intended that.

[the mingo]

I was 17 when I fell in love the first time
And a few times after that
But nothing can compare to this..

* *

[Terri]

i didn't get you on first reading
thank g-d for other people's comments
but the language caught me

I conclude you can shut the bees in
but can't keep them from being bees

thanks

[mnaz]

I suppose that's kind of what I mean. We never get dialogue; we get monologue. We get stock phrases and heartless platitudes. Only inside that insular, warped world and mentality can a ban (or even any form of restriction for godssake) on assault rifles be viewed as "disarming Americans." I mean, how can you even have any sort of meaningful conversation with that point of view?... It just seems impossible.