Loose Leaf Notes

This is one of my favorite poems and right on the money!!!
I remember giving to my doctor friend and he loved it. He posted it on his blog.....way back, when there were only a handful of blogs. He loved it too. xo

This is so wonderfully powerful Colleen! BRAVA, BRAVA! I am so very glad you posted this. I am going to link this from my blog post today!

The link is now posted, my dear....!

Yup...it's a good one. Hard to pick out a favorite part, but if I had to I think it'd be:

"And I want him to stop shouting "Fire!" in the theatre when he is the one with the matches"

did you ever think you'd be so embarassed by a leader or so sad??A link to my site is Daily view . look at it today hilarious . do you watch David Letterman.?I like his presidential speeches great moments "uh uh I need a taco".. I kid you not

That's very powerful! Bravo. This is what poetry should do - speak truths.

This made me cry. I am so fearful about our future. I spent last week deep in thoughts of the 60's. I watched Alice's Restaurant and old Guthrie, Dylan and Beatles clips on You Tube. I miss the feeling that I was powerful and I could make a difference with my vote. I want my power back! Thank you posting this. It makes me want to continue fighting for justice.

I watched Alice's Restaurant and then the PBS Special on the history of the Rolling Stone and felt the same way.

"there's things i want
there's things i think i want"

bush should sing along with stereophonics...

i love this poem! brilliant!

Colleen, I have posted a link to this post on Bonnie's Books, and now I'm off to post the same thing on several of my other blogs. I want you to get the widest possible exposure for this powerful poem. Thank you for sharing the whole poem today:
http://bonniesbooks.blogspot.com/2007/11/colleens-dream-for-president-bush.html

I love the truths you speak about in the piece.

Colleen- off to the side of my posts are my links - one is The daily view - www.bildungblog.blogspot.com is its full name (librarian) hilarious political view and read todays egels nest in fact the last couple days- Your sense of humor will
GET it!! hahah sandy

Naomi sent me here (AGAIN, your mind and mine were on the same wavelength....I posted about the deplorable conditions of health care in the US yesterday)
Your poem was quite profound. Well done! And what really amazes me is that you wrote it FIVE years ago and it means EVEN more now and is even MORE true. Thanks for sharing it.

Well done Colleen...imagine if only you'd known just how bad it would get. I still find myself in shock over this current president and vice president's actions. I had no idea a lunatic could walk in office and do exactly as he damned well pleases whether in bankrupt us or kill thousands of our young or spy on us illegally. The whole system sickens me. I keep praying that sensible people will stand up, that we will fix things but I honestly don't think it will be in the near future. I'd say it will take 20 years...surely it can't be too late. Surely our spirit will prevail.

I can't help but think how much better off we would be if Gore had been leading us for these past 7 years.

Colleen, I can't believe how powerful that is! And, I could not agree with you more.

Wow.

Amen sister, Amen.

Thank you for putting that up again.

Scarlett & Viaggiatore

I don't understand.....why wanting him to have an affair and with whom??? Cheating on his wife???

There is a little tongue and cheek humor in this poem. But what I am saying in that particular line is that having an affair (as Clinton did) is a much lesser scandal compared to Bush taking us to war on false premises at the cost of so many lives and everything else that it has meant. We would all be better off if the worst he did was cheat on his wife. That would be his and his wife's problem and not all of ours and all the soldiers and civilians that have died.

After seeing your poem, I had to share one of mine that has some parts that are in the same vain:

©If Jesus Were Alive Today

If Jesus were alive today,
He'd surely feel despair,
Amidst a world of plenty,
And a bounty that's not shared.

If Jesus were alive today,
He wouldn't understand,
The system of oppression,
And how so few give a damn.

If Jesus were alive today,
He'd certainly be distraught,
Because the animals of Earth,
Are not treated as they ought.

If Jesus were alive today,
His eyes would have some tears,
And based on all the evidence,
I'd say he was sincere.

If Jesus were alive today,
He'd have to jump and shout,
To wake us from our slumber:
"THE FUTURE IS IN DOUBT!!"

If Jesus were alive today,
You know he'd try in vain,
To save us from each other...
(No doubt he'd go insane.)

If Jesus were alive today,
I expect we'd be rebuked;
It is likely he'd remark:
"Knock it off before I puke."

If Jesus were alive today,
No way he'd vote for Bush;
To those who say he should,
He'd say,"Kiss my tush!"

If Jesus were alive today,
With Bushites he'd be pissed:
"Ignorance is no defence!
Otherwise, get yourself a psychiatrist."

If Jesus were alive today,
He'd put John Kerry in his place,
As the world's lamest candidate:
"Why'd they even let that Jackass race?!"

If Jesus were alive today,
Boy, would Congress get a smack,
For practically everything they've done,
Especially for trusting Jr. with Iraq.

If Jesus were alive today,
He'd say the media was to blame:
"Don't think I haven't noticed,
That you people have no shame."

If Jesus were alive today,
The Democrats he would scorn,
For keeping out Wes Clark:
"Was it yesterday these fools were born?!"

If Jesus were alive today,
His sense of humor would be great.
Too wry, perhaps, for some,
But that’s how he’d get laid.

If Jesus were alive today,
He'd be branded as a cynic,
Because no one wants to hear,
If it's raining at their picnic.

If Jesus were alive today,
He'd force us all to see,
That hope and love are the answer,
To who we're supposed to be.

many naive years ago I thought, what if every Christiin on the planet sent him their WWJW DO BRACELETS....i NOW SEE THE FUTILITY OF him even "getting it "

I'm trying to get a story published about undoing all of Bush's support. The following excerpt is why I mention it:

"Finally," said the teacher, "bribe the White House press corps to behave like Fletcher from the movie LIAR LIAR. Have them all start carrying megaphones and wearing rubber fishing pants to protect them from the diarrhea that ‘Simple Scotty’ spews so readily. So when he next tries to, for example, defend Karl Rove’s divisive, asinine and indefensible statement that Liberals wanted to give Al Qaeda therapy after 9/11, they can all stand up and shout into their megaphones: ‘ARE YOU FUCKING SHITTING US???!!!!!!!!!!!’”
“Teacher,” said Alan Shore, “instead of paying off the White House press corps it would be cheaper to just smuggle our friends Stephen and Keith in there.”
“Teacher!” Jim Carrey gasped, “you just gave me a great idea for the sequel to that movie: LIARS LIARS. Besides just having the media getting the honesty bug, the president and all of Congress would get it too. And to parallel the best line in the first one where Fletcher goes, ‘Look, I’m a bad father,’ Mr. Bush would go: ‘Look, I’m a bad president.’”

It's a touching poem. What I hear you wishing for is that Bush be fully human and a man--a man who can take responsibility for himself and others in his care, a man with wisdom who is capable of compassion. That's way out of Bush's range. Bullies are not strong; they are cowards.

What I wish is that the people of this country wake up and see how they have been manipulated into choosing unworthy leaders, and then rise up, organize, and demand fundamental change, like ending the empire for starters.

I have a black tee-shirt with this across the front:
Regime change begins at home

I'm glad your poem is getting wider attention.

Brilliant poem! Thanks for bringing it to our attention again.

Brilliant, powerful and passionate words. I don't know if the power of words can remove the smirk from that smug face. George lacks the emotional growth and intellectual curiosity to ever stray too far from the script handed to him by Dick Cheney and business interests.

Your poem really makes me miss Paul Wellstone. We've had a few voices in the wilderness trying to quell the constant drumbeat of war the past five years, from Russ Feingold to Chris Dodd. But Paul Wellstone had the ability to speak the truth with such conviction and passion people took notice. It seems our public leaders today are in even in office: Keith Olbermann, Al Franken (yet), Jon Stewart and countless bloggers, such as yourself, who keep fighting the good fight.

I'm glad your poem is getting wider attention. It needs to be read and heard!

good poem. was touched by it. happy new yrs

I wrote several pieces before this brattish impostor took the lives of so many in his ill-conceived invasion and wondered why others couldn't see where it was headed. I'm amazed by the number of citizens who still don't 'get it' - by how many people still believe he has value. That in itself is enough to create apathy. My thoughts now revolve around the wish that those who support this fake will be taken down and those who don't will somehow survive this disaster.

Great poem, great thoughts, great publicity!!

My favorite! Texans don't like him either. I don't even know anyone that voted for him. Oh but wait our elections are not what they seem. Hmmmm

I came to you via Bonnie. What a well-written piece. The damage that man has done breaks my heart. We are even feeling it in Australia. Thank you.