JosephThePoet's Blog

What joys a child in the country may have
Hiking, exploring, or just wandering about
With the curiosity of youth they’ll cover many a mile
And there’s always the adventures they’ll stop to play out

A broken down shed that may have been home to a trapper
Or maybe a prospector who was searching for gold
A rope tied to a tree branch and suddenly you’re Tarzan
Or making a bow then you’re an Indian hunting

You’re the hero out looking to save the young woman
That villain who kidnapped her is around here somewhere
Or kill the big dragon and rescue the damsel
The king will then knight me and I’ll be a hero

Look it’s a beaver pond so let’s make a raft
I’ll be Huck Finn and you are Tom Sawyer
We’ll pole around the pond enjoying our stay
What glorious luck we found this wonderful place

Without packing a lunch they’ll seldom go hungry
For all summer long there are berries to find
And if when running and playing they come upon some
Then it’s time for a feast that sates hunger and thirst

A child in the country doesn’t need lots of money
He doesn’t need theaters or coin-sucking arcades
His imagination is plenty out there in the woods
And if boredom does strike there’s always fishing and swimming

She’s my dream this woman I love
Not perfect of course just infinitely exquisite
The love she gives me is honest and true
And mine for her doesn’t skimp even the slightest

Her face is a treasure I get to frequently enjoy
And daily she blesses me with her smiles
Just a smile from her can make my heart dance
And it sings like a joyful bird at her touch

Sometimes I’m surprised I don’t simply explode
From this mass of love I’m feeling inside
Her look and her touch are like magic on me
And the power of it is true love

How can you be weak and full of energy too
But that’s exactly how she makes me feel
I melt at a loving look from her
Yet at the same time feel she’s given me power

And time and the world can disappear with a lingering hug
There’s just us and nothing and nobody else
She’s a beautiful gift from God just for me
That’s the only thing that can possibly explain our love

You’re important no matter your station in life
Even if not rich or famous at all
You are more rare than the hardest to find jewels
And you can’t be replaced because you’re one of a kind

So who will you be because this is your choice
Will you choose to be trash more worthless than dirt
Maybe you’ll choose to be someone of value
But it’s all up to you because you control you

No matter what anyone says or does to you
You are the boss of the one who is you
Will you make people smile and bring cheer to their day
Or just be another pain and irritant to us

Did others who hurt you make you feel good
Or those who treated you like trash earn your respect
You get to choose the character you’ll be
Remember, only you can be you

Come into the light precious don’t let them hurt you
Their actions are past get rid of the pain
Don’t give them that power for their evil to last
You are more valuable than a million of them

They dragged you into darkness and caused you great pain
And the memory lingers to have a hold over you
It’s a hard thing to conquer I understand
But please don’t let the pain forever hold you

How precious you are for not becoming like them
I’ve gone through this pain and you can never forget it
It’s like having glass shards filling you chest cavity and stomach
And sometimes like you’re being squeezed and can’t breathe

Their evil is past they are no longer around
But the stench of their deeds still lingers around you
You have beaten their evil by refusing to change
Now flush their vile residue that’s clinging to you

They vomited their ways out and caused you to suffer
And this evil has left its residual affects
But they are no longer here and you must fight
Don’t let them win you are so much better than them

There’s love in the light precious and a welcome for you
Don’t let the darkness and pain keep holding you back
There’s a warm comforting love just waiting to soothe
So please precious don’t let your hurt rule you
Come into the light

Everyone claims their own individual freedom rights even to the point of demanding the law throw away the religious moral rights and beliefs of the majority to cater to them. There are an awful lot of people complaining about the state of the economy, yet those same people don’t seem to realize that the basic democratic freedom economy that allows everyone to seek their own path to happiness and profit, without responsibility or concern for others, is what caused all the economic problems currently affecting the US.

If you watch the news you’ll notice the politicians want to either tax the windfall profits of the oil companies or to go after the speculators who they claim are driving oil prices up. The oil companies have made their profits following the rules the politicians put in place. The speculators are only following the market place rules of trading to seek a profit. These same politicians claim they are all for the US democratic system but they now seek to punish those who were following the rules, or lack thereof, that they put in place. The many companies that shuffled so many jobs out of the country are also just following the rules the government put in place, the same as the companies that also put their quick profit above the concerns of the country to sell those mortgages that were designed with the full knowledge that most of them would fail.

Now let us all bow down and worship our countries that cater to individual selfish desires before that of respecting and protecting the country which is all the people, and let us not complain about the results of our worship.

What is this poetry thing really about
Why it is just simply everything and all about life
You may choose to share your feelings with others
Or simply describe something special you’ve seen

You can use it to teach in an interesting way
Or explain your own thoughts on whatever you choose
You can create it with rhyme or just use a rhythmic flow
But it’s always about life so not always pretty

Creating your poetry of course can be hard
But like a medicine it can be good for your soul
Sometimes all it takes is to write your thoughts down
For your pains to be eased and the healing begun

Poetry writing is good exercise for the mind
It’s an interesting discipline of ordering words
The greater your vocabulary the easier it can be
And even beginners like me can create poetry worth reading

God has given me
My life many times
When I needed it
He’d come through

The right thought
And required acrobatics
To keep me alive
He’s had me dance

I gave Him my body
When just a young child
Then held on to it
To keep Satan out

He has saved me from me
Removing many temptations
I could have hurt many
If He didn’t hold me well

I have some awareness now
Some knowledge to offer up
Yet I still beg for His control
So I can be with my God

What a foolish way to pretend to promote alternative clean energy sources.  The cost of energy is sky high and some people want to up that cost under the guise that this will stimulate the switch to other energy sources.  Duh, you can’t act in a manner that threatens to cripple the economy and expect money will flow into the technologies you want.  And saying you won’t do anything until all the countries of the world agree to act together just proves you don’t want to do anything or that you are extremely naive about international politics.  Doing it ourselves and proving it works will make other countries want to do the same thing and would give us a trade advantage over them because we would already be there while they would be just starting out.

First you promote the growth of the needed new energy sources and then when they come online sufficiently well enough you warn the public in advance, for example 5 years in advance, that the taxes on the old fossil fuels will jump substantially.  This allows the people to choose to buy the newer products, like buying hydrogen fueled vehicles and signing on with wind and solar electrical generating companies to receive their energy needs, or to continue to buy the old gas guzzlers and staying with the companies that use fossil fuels to create electricity with the full knowledge of the high price consequences that will result from their staying with dirty burning fossil fuel sources.  That will then give an added boost to the already established newer clean energy producing product companies, and an additional incentive for new startup companies to emerge, which will reduce prices further and improve efficiencies as they gear up for an even greater production demand.

The main thing preventing hydrogen fueled vehicles from selling on mass to reduce their current high cost and promote us into the cleaner hydrogen economy is the fact that the majority of us cannot afford to, nor will we choose to, buy a vehicle that we cannot refuel no matter where we choose to drive it.  The politicians need to promote the installation of hydrogen refueling stations across the continent.  Once there are a reasonable number of stations throughout the country then the politicians will need to give assistance to local manufactures that want to build our hydrogen powered vehicles here and to companies and individuals who wish to be among the first to buy these new products at the beginning while the production starts ramping up and the unit costs are higher.

The politicians also need to strongly promote the building and installation of wind and solar generators across the continent.  There are other clean electrical producing technologies that should be promoted with tax incentives too.  The more electrical production we have the easier it will be to supply the hydrogen needs to move to the hydrogen economy.  Directed tax breaks to clean power source companies and their products, and the directed removal of tax breaks to fossil fuel providers, is part of the way to begin the process.

When the politicians recently spent the $160 billion on the so-called economic stimulus package I believe they said it was about 1% of the US tax base.  A country should spend some of the money they demand from their citizens on the country.  Can you imagine what would have happened if the politicians had said to the US public that they have set aside $160 billion dollars to refund 100%, or even only 75% or so, of the full purchase and installation costs of  wind and solar electrical generators upon them becoming operational?  Companies would have immediately ramped up production, and other people would have begun new companies, and they would have instantly started hiring people to do the manufacturing, selling, training, installation and servicing.  Instead of first borrowing the money and then hoping something good happens after you scatter it around foolishly, the money would have had to have been spent first and would have already acted to stimulate the US economy before any of it was refunded.  Requiring the operational installation aspect would have ensured the bulk of the money would have been spent on stimulating the economy of the US, instead of stimulating the Chinese economy by borrowing money from them so the refund rebates could then be spent to buy more Chinese manufactured products (Walmart type purchases).

The world’s governments have supported the fossil fuel economy long enough.  The problem was that electricity and combustion came online around the same time and gas power had the advantage of more quickly accessing the power and more mobility using the technology of the day.  Now that we have so much more knowledge our leaders should be acting to direct us along the intelligent path instead of continuing to promote this insanity.  Casually poisoning our water and the air we breathe is race insanity.  When we grow up as children we learn things and change our ways to accommodate our new understanding so we can progress positively through life, like learning how to walk, talk, look both ways before crossing the road, ride a bike, etc.  Why do we stop this intelligent way of progressing through life once we become adults?  It is time to take our learning and apply it to progress to a positive future for us all and, if we truly do love our children, to a positive future for all our children’s future generations as well.

The first poisonings began in April according to the data I heard on the news tonight.  The US FDA says that the bulk of tomatoes sold in the US during April and May come from Florida and Mexico, yet they still do not know where the outbreak originated as of this date of June 13th.  It seems there is no tracking method to make it easier for them to do their job.

I don’t know about in the US but here in Canada we have these little stickers on our individual fruit for the connivance of the stores in identifying the product brand so they will charge the correct price.  I think it would be a good idea to require all single fruits and vegetables to have those stickers, and for those stickers to also identify the original source supplier of the product.  Bagged products can have the data too if they don’t already.  I think this would make tracking any outbreaks of salmonella and other bacteria back to their source a lot easier.  In my opinion it is an inexpensive and simple solution that the politicians can require be done to help in protecting our food sources and it can be expanded beyond just fruit and vegetables.

This is just another thought from this poet fellow who likes to offer up solutions to try to make our world just a little bit better.

Just to block one of the excuses of the excuse makers who are always looking for excuses instead of solutions, I now offer up the fact that we have the technology to put a lot of data on small sources and the equipment to read that data as well.  And please don’t whine that it will cost the poor farmer too much because that is just another phony excuse to do nothing as I am quite sure the people would be willing to pay the cost increase that will probably be in the neighbourhood of as much as 1/10th of a cent per item to know their food supply is safer.

If you think this is a good idea please get involved and communicate it to your politicians so it might be considered and hopefully acted upon, after all it’s your family’s health that is at stake.

What are you worth
How you value your life
Or even just your comforts
Are you worth more then others

Will you sacrifice the weakest
Simply for your convenience
And in case you might live better
Promote killing even the unborn

Are your pleasures worth anything
No matter how many must suffer
And will you poison all future generations
Claiming your need for nuclear and oil

Satan rules over the Earth now
Spewing his lies to give us excuses
He loves when we choose his ways
Catering to everything evil and vile

But God made us the same
None better than another
And even under Satan’s rule
We still have God’s given free choice of will

America was built and became great by exercising God’s principles, but now the US has thrown away those principles.  All things contrary to God’s ways are promoted by the politicians and the courts.  The whole community used to come together to help their fellow citizens, like in gathering together for home and barn building events or to bring in the crops of anyone in need.  They used to act like family as the whole community raised all the children and were not afraid to rebuke them when they were wrong.  But today it is all about catering only to the selfish me because I have the right to seek all my pleasures above the rights or concerns of everyone else.

The citizens who demand the country’s legal rights are destroying the country that has given them those rights and freedoms.  People from other countries come to America and then demand the country change its laws to cater to their ways because they are a minority who should have special protections and considerations that should trump the rights of all the rest of the people that make up the country.  Lies and deceit are used to promote black pride as not being racism, even though white pride is recognized as the racism it is, which further divides brother against brother.  Loud minorities demand we should throw away the values of the majority to cater to them including changing the meaning of family and marriage because they say we should not discriminate against them, yet their demand is that the majority be discriminated against in their family and religious values to cater to them.  Instead of concentrating on our commonalities we seek only to promote our differences.  Instead of a melting pot to common unity, every difference among the people is promoted.  Discrimination to separate us out from each other is encouraged instead of concentrating on our commonalities to strengthen and protect our communities.  We are not promoting one people indivisible under God.

America is lost.  The US is actively engaged in its own destruction.  Abiding by God’s principles allowed the US to become a great country and gave the people the freedoms they now have.  Throwing away those principles to cater to individual selfish greed is causing the country to fail.  Man made legalese deceit and pretense is the force shaping America today.  Look around you at all the threats to the US and the world.  Bowing down to the democracy and capitalist gods is destroying families, communities, countries and the planet as a whole.  I have my democratic and capitalistic rights to seek all my pleasures and profits regardless of whether it causes large numbers of people to suffer or even to eventually die is the religion they follow.  This is their freedom guaranteed by our democracy they say.  Individual freedom without responsibility is the path America promotes today.

We are not acting like a people unified under a common purpose to promote a better life for us all but are instead acting like greedy selfish individuals.  God warned us that if we leave his path to follow our carnal desires then we will fail, but God has no place in America today so we will continue to blindly do as we please right up until the end.

Don’t you dare judge me
You don’t have the right
God said to not judge people
So you shouldn’t be judging me

I can do anything I please
No matter what you think
And you can’t say anything
Or you are wrongly judging me

Satan loves this foolish babble
Like anytime we won’t think
He loves to twist God’s words
To his benefit against man and God

But the bible demands we judge
To distinguish between right and wrong
All people’s words and actions
We are commanded to properly judge

How can we speak against evil
If we are to not judge anything
Can we choose to promote God’s ways
If we refuse to judge differences

God is the only judge of souls
And this He will properly do
But we are commanded to judge too
But only people’s actions and words

No one should be stunned that the mortgage crisis is continuing.  The banks have been selling sub prime mortgages for years, not just the past few months that they have been switching to their higher rates that are causing the failures, so those mortgages will continue to kick into their higher interest rates for years to come to continue the defaults.  Add in the fact that those defaults affect the values of properties around them which will continue to push other people into just walking away from their homes.  Add in that so many good paying jobs are being exported to countries like China and India so a lot of us locals can no longer afford to make our mortgage payments with our lesser paying jobs when in all likelihood our home is not worth the mortgage we hold on it anyway.  Add that all these job losses causes a reduction of local spending which results in even more local people being laid off which increases the competition for the fewer available jobs and you get a continuing cascading effect from all these forces.  Now add in the job losses associated by the high cost of gas and oil that affects the costs of all products to this mess and you have another factor that will ensure this will continue for a long time.  Let’s include the foolish use of food crops to be converted to fuel to burn which will add additional costs to everyone’s food that is already going up because of higher fuel costs anyway, and that also adds to the worldwide loss of available food to feed us people of the world.  These are but a few of the many factors that will continue to drag down the US economy and threaten the future of the country.

Politicians can only see as far as the next election and for the most part haven’t any training in any field that would help them to understand anything other then how to babble deceit to get reelected to continue feeding off the public trough while pretending they are superior to the people who are the country.  They have been kissing the backside of special interest groups for years to get their funding to run their next election campaign, and many of them are always engaged only in electioneering during their full time in office.  Consider the large number of lawyers who are politicians and how their trade is exactly the same which is the babble of deceit to confuse the issue to win regardless of the costs to others or to the country as a whole.  It is always only about them.

So long as we worship unbridled democracy and capitalism instead of God we can only expect more of the same.  When you see something is not working right and continue to ignore it instead of fixing it then only blind fools will expect things will somehow change for the better.  If our vehicle brakes don’t work right do we ignore it and expect things will get better?  God gave us an excellent brain and it only makes sense to use it.  We should not continue to encourage the lowest worldwide found rules to regulate business because it is proven that a lack of concern for life and our environment is the result.  The wealthy and companies should not be allowed to continue the casual destruction of our world and people’s lives just because they are called businessmen and capitalists.  Catering to selfish greed has proven to be a failure so it is time for frameworks to be designed for people and companies to work within, something that maybe we’ll choose to call governing.

Why is it that when blacks vote over 90% based on race it is called pride but if the whites did the same thing it is called racism?

Catering to people who are constantly promoting the race difference between us is racism.  Imposing quotas based on race is racism.  We denigrate all blacks by implying that they are less then white people when we enforce quotas to hire them based on their race instead of their intelligence, experiences, or ability.  Why should white racism be promoted under the pretence of correcting for the black racism of the past?  Racism cannot be stopped if all we are doing is changing the group that we are currently promoting racism against because all this does is fan the flames to further encourage race based hatred.  And why should we punish a white person for something he/she was not involved in years ago and pretend we are making up for a previous injustice?  Abusing an innocent person or group today does not make up for the abuse of a different innocent person or group years ago.  Going after people and companies that promote racism hatred is slow but the only real way to fight racism.

Can you imagine what would happen if a group tried starting a White Entertainment Television or otherwise promoted any white race based group?  It is time the Media and politicians quit catering to the blacks who promote race differences but they are too afraid of the power those people have to organize large groups of racists to protest against them, and because they have convinced themselves that helping promote black racism, that they call black race pride just like white racists call their ways white race pride, somehow helps the poor pitiful blacks.  If they really want to help the poor mostly black neighbourhoods then they should be race blind in their group names and simply help the whole neighbourhood of people instead of encouraging continued anger among the races by those who are seeking to blame and strike out at someone for their suffering.

Using the past as an excuse to continue racism in a new form doesn’t help any of us.  There is no excuse to promote a group separate from the rest of us based on colour.  We should be promoting how we are all alike, which is our desire to be able to enjoy a decent life and raise a happy family, not looking to separate us from each other based on such pitiful differences like skin colour.

If I have offended any racists, of any colour, tough!

Why are we not teaching electricity creation and concepts, and coding programming methods in all our Grade Schools?  Please don’t reply with the usual poor excuses as the question is rhetorically asked as an introduction to this teaching concern.

What does this teaching lack bode for their future to compete in an increasingly fast paced high tech world?  How about their and our short term future?  Our people’s skills must be always, and quickly, updated to keep up with and to create the new technologies used and wanted by the world of us.

Their world is full of electricity, and electrically powered and programmed devices.  They will more easily fit into their world if they are given an early introduction into understanding as many of their world relevant subjects as thoroughly and quickly as they can.  As technology progresses the skills for the new technologies should be taught to all our children and the necessary equipment for study and experimentation should be made available to them as soon as possible, considering copyright and other protection concerns.  An example is to also now include light fiber laser manipulation methodologies and the generally understood light frequency reflection and passing theories that have been used in mass communications delivery for many years now, to further relate and make relevant their education to their world of now and the future.

It would also be smart to teach money management extremely early, as this is a very important skill requirement needed for a better chance of success in their personal and business lives.  An easier way for most people to learn math, or other subjects, is by applying the teaching to real life needs and interests so the learners will have an easier way of grasping the concepts through association usage.  Even in school new technologies or concepts can emerge as various types of thinkers are introduced to greater amounts of the knowledge we currently have, and even the very young can have a leap in understanding that will usher in the wonders of the future.

Do we want our schooling of our children to be relevant to give them a better chance to have a decent and successful life?  The more they know about their environment, and that includes the financial needs and technology in their environment, the better chance they’ll have to survive in and contribute to their society.  We should prepare them so they will be able to move more freely between the many employment changes they will have to address during their lives as they strive to be more valuable employees and contribute to their society.

We need for our children to receive the best education we can think of so they can invent and produce the technologies of the future, and so they can better ensure the continued viability of our communities by their success.