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A Lament for Iran
6.26.09 | 3rd Person

Posted on 06/26/2009 6:53:51 PM PDT by Third Person

I went for a swim this evening

after a thunderstorm

with a perfect rainbow overhead

MJ is dead

celebrities are recycled like junk plastic

and Sanford cries for flesh in Argentina

but Iranians believing in freedom

are chopped to pieces like firewood

WHO CARES?

righteous Iranians are flushed down the toilet

by useful western idiots

global warming and politics and hollywood

politicians pushing the hot button issues

and screwing the desire for

FREEDOM

TV ratings = zero liberty

all that remains

when push comes to

shove

is a Gun

No guns, no voice

take heed people

your voice is a BANG so

DO NOT lose your voice!

just ask an Iranian.


TOPICS: Poetry
KEYWORDS:
Warning...drunken first-time vanity.
1 posted on 06/26/2009 6:53:52 PM PDT by Third Person
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To: Third Person
Yes. Well, as Robert Frost observed, writing blank verse "poetry" is like playing tennis without a net.
2 posted on 06/26/2009 6:57:13 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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To: Third Person

Well done. It will come down to our guns.


3 posted on 06/26/2009 6:58:30 PM PDT by rightwingjew
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To: sionnsar

Ping


4 posted on 06/26/2009 7:01:10 PM PDT by StilettoRaksha
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To: Third Person

That’s pretty good for a FR vanity virgin!


5 posted on 06/26/2009 7:20:12 PM PDT by Palladin (Obama to Iranian despots: "No hot dogs for you!")
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To: Third Person

6 posted on 06/26/2009 7:21:59 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: JoeProBono

Yep, bet they felt out of place at Friday prayers, I’m hope in our support they find strength to pursue freedoms


7 posted on 06/26/2009 7:35:05 PM PDT by Son House (President Øbama Turns His Back On The Oppressed During Their Darkest Hours)
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To: Third Person

Queensryche - No Sanctuary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czPbIkC2JTk

There’s a certain feeling
Known to all who hear the sound
The call of morning rising
You’re in a mystic space
Can’t you feel the force embrace, the chill of the wind
As it names you

Oh, can’t you see the lies in front of you
Your journey ends so far, and still the distance
Spins round and round you
Now you cry - give me sanctuary
You scream but no one listens
Again you cry - give me sanctuary
Until the end I’ll fight and die, to be free
Oh! No sanctuary

You’re walking halfway in
But crawling halfway out
There’s a void in your mind that you cling to
You feel lost in time, you’ve got no words to rhyme
No more charms, no more spells to protect you

Oh can’t you see the lies in front of you
Your journey ends so far, and still the distance
Spins round and round you
Now you cry - give me sanctuary
You scream, but no one listens
Again you cry - give me sanctuary
Until the end I’ll fight and die
Oh I’ve got to be free


8 posted on 06/26/2009 7:53:44 PM PDT by Son House (President Øbama Turns His Back On The Oppressed During Their Darkest Hours)
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To: Third Person
Warning...drunken first-time vanity.

Well, after that last Captain and Coke I just had I say, well done!

9 posted on 06/26/2009 8:48:58 PM PDT by optiguy (Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them.----- Ronald Reagan)
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To: rightwingjew

Oddly enough it was a Communist who said it best: “All political power flows out of the barrel of a gun”.


10 posted on 06/26/2009 8:53:22 PM PDT by pankot
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To: StilettoRaksha; nuconvert; Third Person
Thanks.

Spoke with an Iranian friend today... has a heavy spirit... young relative declared "I am going out and I might die"... nothing more is known since... reports are many, many young Iranians are doing this... and being murdered, many thousands murdered already...

It is horrible.

take heed people
your voice is a BANG so
DO NOT lose your voice!
just ask an Iranian.
Courageous Iranian voices are being heard. By some of us.
11 posted on 06/26/2009 9:18:45 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Neda Agha-Soltan - murdered by illegitimate government)
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To: Son House
I’m hope in our support they find strength to pursue freedoms

This household is writing our congresscritters to push for support for the Iranian people, since Odumbo prefers going out for ice cream to actually doing anything.

One never knows how a revolution will turn out, but it's hard to imagine anything worse than what Iran has now.

12 posted on 06/26/2009 9:22:01 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Neda Agha-Soltan - murdered by illegitimate government)
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To: sionnsar

I thought you might like to see this video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UnXP89jlcc&eurl=http%3A%2F%

We will not forget. Down with the Islamic Regime.


13 posted on 06/26/2009 9:42:37 PM PDT by StilettoRaksha
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To: StilettoRaksha
Thank you. Thought you might like this photo, received a few minutes ago from LibreOuMort (via cellphone) in Seattle's Greenlake district -- she ran into some of our Persian friends there...

Photobucket

14 posted on 06/26/2009 9:55:20 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Neda Agha-Soltan - murdered by illegitimate government)
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To: sionnsar

It’s great to see people in the U.S. still rallying.


15 posted on 06/26/2009 10:01:59 PM PDT by StilettoRaksha
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To: StilettoRaksha

“Still”? My perception is that it’s only beginning.


16 posted on 06/26/2009 11:16:14 PM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Neda Agha-Soltan - murdered by illegitimate government)
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To: sionnsar
I hope you're right. I know I will continue. I plan to join protesters on the 4th.
17 posted on 06/26/2009 11:23:22 PM PDT by StilettoRaksha
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To: StilettoRaksha

LoM reports more and more Americans turning out for these rallies. And people from all across the political spectrum here.


18 posted on 06/27/2009 9:13:26 AM PDT by sionnsar (IranAzadi|5yst3m 0wn3d-it's N0t Y0ur5:SONY|Neda Agha-Soltan - murdered by illegitimate government)
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