Mornings Silence

As early morning rubs her sleep filled eyes and night bids its adieu

I sit in mornings silence

With fields ablaze in Indian grass blanketed in mornings ghost gray mist

While high above the tree line a thousand birds take orchestrated flight

I sit in mornings silence

mornings sun breaks through the clouds revealing brightly colored remnants, tattered like ribbons streaming stretched across the newborn sky

I sit in mornings silence

Sitting and simply watching the forest all dressed in green as she suddenly breaks

into frenzied dance

of twists and turns

as a gentle breeze whispers by

I sit in mornings silence

All before the day awakens all before mornings silence is broken

j.Sweptson

PIECES OF THE AMERICAN DREAM

The american dream

dashed to pieces

against the rocky shore line of greed
No matter how one wishes to paint it

personal

corporate

greed is greed

no matter the form
Factories long the back bone of america

gone
As the mist in early morning's sunlight
Factories that once banged and clanged

turning out livelihoods

now hum in some far off distance shore
While the trade street mongers

live off the sweat

blood

and lives

of others less fortunate
So it has always been in the land called greed

the rich and powerful

devour those beneath them
Gnawing and chewing

on each morsel

picking their teeth

with the pieces of others

broken dreams.

j.Sweptson

THE LAND OF THE "$2,000.00" PURSE

The Land of Multi-Million Dollar Homes as oil creeps ever so near the shore line. Those Forgotten Women and children that sleep the night away in some cold,damp alley . Their rich "sisters" lost in their shopping addiction. Buying more of what they don't need just to buy. The Land Of The "$2000.00" Purse, Oh! how proudly they serve. The Land Of Greed which has blinded us all, we turn a deaf ear to what's real. Wars rage on, men, women and children die by the thousands yet blind and deaf we remain. Few feel the pain of those that suffer. For Greed has become our mantra our god of sorts. In The Land Of Million Dollar Homes and $2000.00 Purses what more could we want.

j.Sweptson

SIMPLY, ODDLY AMAZED

Simply, Oddly Amazed
Day in and day out I'm amazed at humanities need for religion. Yes, the god all nations bow down to no matter how he or she paints it. Fairy tales produced by those with one thing in common, CONTROL of the masses. More of earths inhabitants have been sacrificed, slaughtered in every way possible over RELIGION. Take for instance the two wars that rage on. I don't know about you but if I worshipped a god it would not be one that allowed such as whats happening at the moment. My god wouldn't allow destruction of life in any form. How about yours.