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CJ Sutherland Mar 24
Born with a clean slate

Loved ones teach kids how to HATE

Each day Choose good versus bad

Children mimic watch and learn

Live by example your turn



Tanka Haiku
Five lines 31 syllables
5-7-5-7-7

Inspired song
A thin line between love and hate
By Annie Lennox 1995
(It was first done in 1971 by the persuaders)
Written 3-14  2025
CJ Sutherland Mar 23
Nobody
Saw this coming
In unison they begin
All media nose a joint
Same talking points
Teslas are burning
Obscenities churning
Bullhorns are turning
Domestic terrorist
Molotov cocktail
Concerted effort
In the streets
Citizens last
To speak
Destruction without missing a beat
11 states thus far, drum beats fire heats.
Destroying Tesla
Buildings and Cars
Private information
Public made known
Hacking systems
they condone
Targeting Tesla owners destroy
Terrorist  play games power decoy
Elon Guilty by association Trump
Elon Works free, SpaceX DOGE
astronaut’s home no reprieve
He exposed their ***** secrets
American citizens believe truth
No longer can they hide uncouth
What was hid is now openly known



Foot notes
I tried to make a picture of a face and body in a sitting position. I think I captured the face pretty well the perfect protruding nose . just like a government official their nose in everybody’s business.
This is what I call WORD ART





Inspired songs
1)Terrorist
By Novelist ( official music video ) YouTube
2) True Story
By Jimmy Cliff
3) Born in The U.S.A
By Bruce Springsteen
CJ Sutherland Mar 21
Ordinary          People
Do

Amazing.                            Things

Give ­                                              It  To

God.                                               See

What.                      Love

Brings
CJ Sutherland Mar 19
Good Samaritan

Or nemesis in us all

Who will win the fight

Each will show themselves in time

Who wins the one you feed chose


Tanka haiku.  
5 lines 31 syllables



Inspired Songs

1) the Good Samaritan
Lyric Video YouTube 2009
Children’s worship song
about compassion and kindness
Luke 10: 25-37

Nemesis2015
By Benjamin Clementine

Footnote
Every day all day long, we make choices between doing something good or doing something bad evil. Each of us have the capacity to be the good Samaritan or to be somebody’s nemesis. And the person we choose in the path we take is predicated on who we are and what we feed
Most people don’t know ,in the parable of the good Samaritan. The injured  man on the ground was the Samaritan’s worst enemy. His nemesis. Yet he showed kindness and passion.paying for his care.
CJ Sutherland Mar 18
NOT color race creed

Americans are people

Of all walks of life

The great  melting ***   diverse

Americans must reunite



Tanka Haiku
5 lines 31 syllables
Syllable count 5-7-5-7-7
FYI
I see the American flag as the symbol of America
The land of the brave and the free
There are people who want to divide American
Based on all kinds of crazy things. Don’t lose sight.
Of how much blood was shed to get us to where we are today. Nothing and nobody is perfect, but we can stand proud as probably the last nation for what it is on this earth. To those who speak ill of America,
You’re entitled to your opinion I strongly suggest
For your happiness, you seek life elsewhere.
This great adventure the melting *** of society is a wonderful construct without all the evil.
Putting up with the good the bad the ugly still
I am a proud America
CJ Sutherland Mar 17
St. Patrick’s Day
In the local pub
I met my love
Drinking a pint of brew
He swept me off my feet
We fell in love before we knew
Romance so sweet

However I had a major problem an issue
I cried through a box of tissue
He had a tattoo of his ex-wife name
It night have been the end game

Big bold letters on his upper arm
His handsome facade lost its charm
Trish, my wish I wanted it removed
But what would that prove

Outwitting an unwilling participant
While His new lady love enchants
Tattoo a final decision to make
It could be the end of a beautiful romance

Winning will not be a piece of cake
We are both opinionated headstrong
An argument lasting all life long
A miracle it will take don’t forsake

The humiliation was my curse and cause
Except the past else relationship pause
We needed to find an amicable solution
To cease irreconcilable harm
He was impervious to my suggestions
We were at odds, on opposite sides
A revolution An amicable resolution

My darling man of reason
Wanted to clear the air
Avoided committing  treason
He wanted to be fair

In hindsight it might be a different ride
Some tattoos are hard to hide
he wondered how he would feel
If his wife had another man’s name for real

On her *** now that’s a show of style and class
The ex-wife carries His name without shame
still on her **** cheeks large letters, nice and neat
He smirked at the visual and size

He wonders as he slumbers What her
new boyfriend Would think deduce
White flag he issues calls for a truce

I hold my temper,
but stood my ground
I smiled spoke in a soft sweet voice
Miraculous patience I found
Leaving him little to no choice

Well, dear my name is not Trish
Resolution is, my only wish

The day was done
a clever girl Won
Sublime heart and mind
Contentment for all of time
I would find

Was it such a large price to pay?
What would you do or say?
to resolve the situation
in amicable way?

If He added a line under the letter T in Trish
He can represent Irish
40 years of marital bliss
Came down to this
a simple line
in the proverbial sand
ain’t love grand

my darling lad drinks a pint of brew
to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day
to pass the time away of the change of his tattoo
The luck of the Irish now he knew

Happy wife happy life
A tattoo is forever think twice
Your decision might cause strife
Any name is simply a roll of the dice

Now, my Irish pappy
isn’t really Irish but remains happy
Resolution on his arm sleeve
a lesson learned a tale to believe



Inspired song
Danny boy (YouTube)
By the Celtic Women
CJ Sutherland Mar 16
Americans
              Want
                 Less
Government
More
Freedom
Here’s                 The  Rub
Official’s
Stratagem
Have Been
At the
Trough
For.        So
Long.       They
Are.                Greedy
Rapid.                         Rats





Inspired songs

1)Money 1973
By Pink Floyd

2) nowhere to run to (nowhere to hide) 1965
By Martha and the Vandellas
BLG Word of the day challenge
March 15, 2025
Stratagem
A stratagem is a trick or plan for deceiving an enemy or for achieving a goal
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