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"Any Color You Like" I



Version Blue (I)

London street vendor,
hawking from the back of a van
keeping up the patter,
"A bargain from this businessman,
full sets, any colour you like,
just as long as it's blue.
Sure, it's your choice,
m'lady, the hue is you.

Shift to USA political scene,
voters picked their color, blue,
overwhelmingly. Wanted a change,
made their choice, obstructed by a few.
Boistereous, unreasonable, disruptive,
relying on deceit, panic, fabricated lies,
funded surreptitiously by corporate interests,
red denying, shouting "no" to choices of any size.

Plaintive voiced, "We need help,
the premiums we can no longer afford."
Red voices shouting, "No, no, no!"
"We're not listening to you," screamed the red horde,
confusion, derision, birther and deather extremists.
"But we voted for blue, the change of inspiration.
Our voices matter, too. Any colour you like," the blues sang,
"but now it's time for intelligence to guide our nation.






"Any colour you like" but time for blue, the majority hue.








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Prompt: Song Title ("Any Colour You Like" Pink Floyd, "The Wall")

"Any Colour You Want" Version You (II)
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  • Paloszoo gold member
    September 18

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    Clever political write, although I'm not into politics. It just scares me. Creatively written. Thanks for entering my anniversary bash contest. It's a pleasure to read your work.


    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 18
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      Hah! It's been scaring a lot of people lately,
      by design, it seems, Sad tactic to employ.

      Thank you,
      M-C

  • drifting cloud silver member
    September 16

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    Blue is my favorite color, personal and political. I'm afraid that a lot of people are convinced that any bit of socialism is like a bad virus that is going to ruin all of capitalism. They are really scared. They don't understand that it needs controls and balance.

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 18
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      Well, the "scare virus" certainly spread wildly,
      pushing common sense and civilty into the fire!
      You captured the importance of the situation--
      controls and balance.

      Thank you for sharing thoughts, Bonita.

      M-C


  • Rick Weston silver member
    September 14

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    i like where you took this. a clever write indeed. personally i prefer we hear voices of decent, whatever side raises them as unfortunately a simple majority rule approach to law has led us and other nations into some horrific (or simply misguided) choices time and time again.

    well written.


  • T-Dizzle Mcnizzle
    September 12

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    Your writing talent never ceases to amaze me. An absolutely fabulous rant! Did I get a hint of the health care bill in this? Well written!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 12
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      Would have given more than a hint,
      but I thought I had ranted enough!

      The hatred that abounds from the fringe
      is scary. Out and out lies portrayed as
      fact---and believed by the willing flock.
      The heavens must have hands over eyes
      wondering how the flock has gone so
      far astray from brotherly love.

      Thank you, T-D,

      M-C


  • Peteskid gold member
    September 10

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    ohh you have hit on something here, you would thinlk people would learn not to listen as if the wars and the untruths were not enough from ther last eight years...well done...a fond hope here...PK

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 10
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      Ah, by instinct you were led here!
      Sometimes the rant can't be suppressed
      and just has to spill out!!

      Right, open ears and open mouths
      open to anything but the truth!!

      Thanks, PK,

      M-C

  • Susan E. Pennycuff
    September 9

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    I am beginning to think the only color any of us are getting lately is grey because everything seems to be in the grey area of understanding. No longer are we allowed to just listen to what is going on, we must instead listen to nothing but debating which only allows us partial avenues of what is going on. If people would just shut up long enough to listen we might for the first time in a long time actually get a bit of sense into what is ACTUALLY going on around us. Time is a precious thing and it seems lately that most of it has been wasted debating on issues that nobody really fully understands because they have been too busy debating prior to getting all the facts. Could be be any less of an ignorant country.. Oh how much more foolish can we make ourselves look to those countries that wish us harm? Talk about creating sitting targets... an enemy will choose the foolish to attack.

    Great rant dear... loved it

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 9
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      Attacking from within...
      by the citizenry itself.

      You make such a cogent point
      about the way the world sees us.
      And not just on network or cable
      news, but through You Tube
      travelling right to phones
      on faraway continents.

      Rampant lies....not the way
      to show democracy to the world.
      It just is not logical that people
      who claim to believe in God,
      who claim to be Christians
      can particiapate in such deceitful
      actions to impose made up "facts"
      on the willing to hear and believe.

      The hatred exhibited is scary.

      Thanks for sharing the rant, Suzi!

      M-C


  • pixiestix gold member
    September 9
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    The rant has arrived and in your artistic style.

    I can't help but think of a book by Robert Fulghum "All I Ever Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten".

    Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

    Getting caught up in all the "layers" causes some to lose sight of why they are there. Public service is supposed to be just that...not self service.

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 9
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      Oh, good one.
      Good ONES, pix!!!

      True, the kindergarten.
      But others agree that the child
      is so formed even BEFORE kindergarten
      that teachers hardly have a chance to realign
      bad habits already ingrained. Ah, the simple rules--
      if only.....

      "Public service is supposed to be just that...not self service. "
      Another really good one!!"

      Thanks for the input, pixiesmarts.

      Aes

      • pixiestix gold member
        September 9

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        I believe it and teachers also don't always get the full support of parents in their endeavors in some cases too.

        Where's Yem's well? I might toss a few folk down there myself. lol

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          September 9

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          The well?
          Right, he offered it up down the page.

          Characteristics, beliefs, habits all ingrained
          before they ever get to school. Some little
          buggers alert and interested, others already
          in a bit of a malaise, to make an extreme
          contrast. Well, maybe not so extreme...


  • Summer52
    September 9

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    Blue is often the chosen color of the conservative people.
    Blue represents knowledge, power, truth,integrity and seriousness.
    And Blue means ... your friendship is very important to me...

    Good luck, dearest Mumsy!

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 9
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      In the USA the color assignments
      led to the fair minded liberal Democrats
      dubbed blue, with the formerly convervative
      reasonable Republicans given the red assiignment.
      Use of the word "formerly" implies some to the
      extrem far right no longer have the ability
      to excercise reason!

      Welcome to the rant page, summer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

      Mumsy

      • Summer52
        September 9
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        He he...

        am not into politics, Mumsy.... as much as possible, I shy away from topics about that.... though I read a lot ...about news/events of what is happening in the global "chitchats" lol.





  • waydownuponjoy
    September 9

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    The Choices ...

    The distance that’s come between us
    is as far as the mind’s liberty,
    Closing that gap is the closeness
    of American - You & Me!
    There’s always another indenture
    and tenets with no guarantee -

    Decisions that gather around us
    encircle a small mystery -
    Yet open doors which lead ever on
    as the past becomes history.

    Blue votes, blue sighs,
    Who will live, who will die?
    That’s the color of disagree!

    © 2009 Joy A. Burki-Watson

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 9
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      "Decisions....open doors which lead ever on..."
      Wise, poetic joy writes words packed with implications.
      So much inserted into your reply.

      Thank you, joy, for your spirited addition to the conversation!!

      M-C


  • Yemassee gold member
    September 9

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    I still have lots of room in my well and when I run out of space there is still the fire option...just let me know if you think either should be an option.

    I know I'm sick of the childishness, and from both sides. Being moderately liberal (whatever that means) I of course toss most of the accusations toward the conservatives who seem to lost their intelligence and certainly their shame. I would be ashamed to state most of the things they do, not even so much because it is wrong but because it is so patently foolish and anyone who sees through that now must assume that I am a fool. Debate the issues, don't play the endless games of trying to label Obama and other democrats as "Socialists" intelligent people understand what is going on there.

    Anyway, The Ziti and Ratatouille was very nice.

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 9
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      Ah, new day, 9/9/09---a day of forgiveness and arrogance--
      or so the Dylan Ratigan "Morning Meeting" tells me!

      So on to food! Finally went to Barilla website to be sure
      I had it right. The mostacolli with which I've been making
      you hungry, is the angle end tube, smooth. Penne, also
      angle ended, but with ridges. Ziti, straight cut edges.

      But no eggplant crosses my mostacolli or penne.
      Checked that out, too, and seems it's not ratatouille
      without the eggplant---but I have no eggplant expertise,
      nor do I want to have any!!!

      Next pasta meal here---when it rains, for my frequent
      dinner companion is re-doing his back yard, and spends
      every minute after work out there working on it.

      Glad yours was nice.

      Back to politics---I feel the earth trembling already
      as right wing rage prepares for the address to Congress,
      the Judiciary, the country and the world!

      The well? Too kind hearted for that, I am!!!!!!!!

      M-C
      l

      • pixiestix gold member
        September 9
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        Let's talk macaroni...we don't call any of it "pasta" in my house. lol

        Hah! I made eggplant parmagiana over the weekend. There's a secret to making really good eggplant which was passed on to me by my Italian mother-in-law some years back.

        I recently won over a new eggplant fan.

        • Aesthete2000 gold member
          September 9
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          It's a nightshade veggie, bad for aches and pains.
          And since I can't live without tomatoes and peppers,
          potatoes, too, that's one member of the family
          I can avoid. I've heard the TV chefs caution
          about getting small one, as the larger the
          m ore bitter. Not converted here!!


  • UncleDunk gold member
    September 8

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    This poem shows a bit of the American wit and satire of, say, a Mark Twain, but it also left me feeling a bit sad, having to live through this noise.

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 8
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      Lovin' your reply, Uncle!
      Reminding you of Mark Twain?
      Honored, awed at the comparison.
      Sad, upset, aghast, screaming at the TV!
      Thank you for shairng your thoughts
      on the piece where I just had to rant!!!

      M-C


  • Denerica
    September 8

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    Blue is also a rendition to the holy spirit...if that means anything with the ending sentence. Clever write once again my friend. Excellent. Blessings.

    • Aesthete2000 gold member
      September 8
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      Oh, excellent connection, Denise.
      In my sixteen years of Catholic education
      I was called upon at various times to render
      illustrations of the symbolic dove.
      That is the spirit of illumination
      that is needed now.



      Thank you, dear friend,

      M-C

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