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Rayn Roberts

Rayn Roberts

Poetry, Poets, Writing, Readings, Etc.

Category: American Politics

August 17, 2020August 17, 2020Rayn Roberts

What it Takes to Make Peace

No Truth / No Justice No Justice / No Peace No Peace / No Balance Balance Truth in Clarity Clarity / Reflection Reflection / Detachment Detachment / Humility Humility / Humanity Humanity / Practice Practice / Persistence Persistence / Balance Balance Justice in Truth– Peace does not happen It is studied, crafted Handmade with care, […]

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July 28, 2020July 29, 2020Rayn Roberts

Shades of America

Shades of America White Supremacy, where is it? What every American needs to know about White supremacy Interview with W. Kamau Bell on the Tonight’s Show W Kamau Bell, who is he?   Feature image credits:   (Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images)  

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July 20, 2020July 24, 2020Rayn Roberts

Has It Really Come to This?

The story has been told and retold:  Ben Franklin was walking out of Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention in 1787, when a lady asked him…. “Well, Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy? Franklin, “A republic, if you can keep it.“ But that’s not the end of the story which most […]

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July 15, 2020July 28, 2020Rayn Roberts

Break This Bottle

If I taxed my heart long enough to reach ninety-one I’d run short of beats, I know, dumb idea, no matter. I don’t need to map life that far to be happy– Still it’s good to know what’s out there before setting a course for the Isle of Calamity—waves rise and fall no gull flies […]

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July 14, 2020July 28, 2020Rayn Roberts

Current Affairs

Left, right, left, center, the political stammer But we talk on and on and past one another Real discourse too hard in the Trump nation. Junkyard Alt-Right Dogs bark racist slogans We breathe deep, ignore the jerk at work, we Do our best to couple, dismiss the nightmare For the dream of a big house, […]

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June 28, 2020August 9, 2020Rayn Roberts

Senior Complaint

I have an underlying health condition cause unknown, like addiction to Aunt Nora or Widow Jane, a thing always out of reach, yeah seeking either as I’m a dealer, is insane. but when deprived I feel something, something’s seriously wrong with this ragtag raging world we made. Oh sympathy, I have that too, for all […]

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June 20, 2020August 9, 2020Rayn Roberts

A Reckoning

There must be meaning behind a will, there must be healing. Night deepens but I cannot sleep, a lily pond glows drowsy koi floating by a moonlit walk in the park. Is there a reason to feel the loss of so many I never knew, did I help herd them to slaughter my twisted heart pounding […]

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August 24, 2019June 21, 2020Rayn Roberts

Gun Violence & Other Madness

The cat chases its tail, the dog whimpers in sleep the heart skips a beat… It’s not a nightmare, not a movie, a TV show. Wake when you will but where will you be, in bed alone, In the den, your unknowing hand holding a gun, at your desk starting at nothing? It doesn’t matter—Looking […]

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October 12, 2017August 9, 2020Rayn Roberts

Lament for the Body Politic

You’re better to believe what we tell the children, God loves us
Satan’s to blame for all the evil in the world, the horrors of war.

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