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107 · Apr 2024
A Cruel Theif
CJ Sutherland Apr 2024
Life happens

While we make our plans

Nobody really understands

Kismet, destiny or God’s plan

We all carry our own belief

Really is a cruel thief
CJ Sutherland Jul 2024
The Joker who is Batman‘s
Arch enemy and life nemesis
learned of Batman‘s true identity
And started asking real questions


How could a shooter
A seemingly untrained
Young adult without
Obvious motives A boy\man in
a Black Rock commercial

get past seasoned secret service
A calamity of errors Poor planning
A ladder on the side of a building
Bystanders spotting the shooter prior to Trump going on stage Alert, police

A policeman has a confrontation
with the shooter and runs away?
WHY was Trump allowed to go on stage?
The father alerts the police. He’s worried about his son.? Father’s missing gun

The timelines don’t add up
Secret service story changes
I’m sure they’re going to say
extenuating circumstances!
legitimately Will be presented

All Questions will be answered
they claim to have transparency
Pun intended
IT ******* AWAY
The Picture I have in my head;

The intention behind the shooter(s)?
Was for the American people
To watch Donald Trump’s
Head blown off On national television
witnessed by Millions around the world.

Why? what is the reason, the lesson;
Americans know your place!, get in line
The bigger picture It’s not all about Trump
He’s just in the way, We are next
It’s the American people they’re after

“Profane wicked people
Whose day has come
when iniquity shall have an end”
Ezekiel 21:26

That is the extent of their hatred
How do you reconcile
Hate derangement ?
Take a moment to fathom
The Gravity of the situation

News media moguls
Love to parody Trump hatred
The grotesque mockery on cue
Insinuating Character sabotage
“it’s a stunt Trump merely fell,
And had to be carried off stage”

“Trump is using his bandage as a prop”
“He staged The whole thing”
The cesspool of lying through their eyes
Biden’s campaign
Unconscionable rhetoric

ramping up hate
Trump is called a ****
Trump will be a dictator
There will be no more democracy
Trump hates black people

Public figures saying
“someone should take him out”
“The shooter had one job and he missed?”
It doesn’t matter what side you’re on
doesn’t matter what you think of the man

If they could do this to  
a president elect
What do you think
they have planned
for you and me?  

  Biden has stepped down
For  the next round
A change of tactics
Enter
The Cat Woman


Inspired by Songs;
1) Orchestra and chorus Batman theme song Neal Hefti
2) Buffalo Springfield song stop children what’s that sound? 1967
3) Crosby stills, Nash and Young “Ohio”
( Kent state shooting) 1970
BLT Webster’s Word of the Day challenge
Extenuate 7-22-24 to lessen the strength or effect of some thing
CJ Sutherland Aug 2024
Media mogul critics
Die hard, cynics

Are all capricious by designs
Don’t step on their land minds

Factitious information
Bait and switch tactics creation

If they say it’s not
It’s what you’re got

Rhetoric and hyperbole
Don’t believe what lying eyes see

Regurgitate Same talking stance
News determine in advance

They want useful idiots. It’s a shame.
While choosing someone else to blame

All the while with a smile
The song remains the same



Song inspired
1) Signs by The five electrical band
2) these times are a Changan’ by Bob Dylan
3) The song remains the same Led Zeppelin
( Robert Plant believe Music is universal 1973, every time I sing this song, I just picture, I’ve been around the world, and at the root of it all, there’s one common denominator.)

FYI song remains the same has a very long intro but there are lyrics it’s worth the wait
BLT Webster’s Word of the Day challenge
Capricious8-5-24
Lacking firmness, or steadiness, as in purpose or devotion. Suggest motivation by sudden whim, fancy and unpredictability. Fickle, and constant, volatile.
105 · Aug 2024
Grandsons
CJ Sutherland Aug 2024
Will
                  Always
                            Remember
        You’re
Special,
               unique,
                       Beautiful  
                            Wanted
                You’re
     Someone
               Nobody
                            Can
                                      Replace
                     Always
                Remembered
In
Their         
         Hearts


Inspired song
1) Child of my child (grandparents prayer)
By Jennifer Gaffney
Written 7-21-24
Posted 8-17-2:4 300th poem
105 · Sep 2024
Ravenous
CJ Sutherland Sep 2024
Dead deer on the street

Six. Vultures on the roadside.

Not fazed when cars pass

Feed on deer carcass complete

Vultures stay till street is clean


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



Inspired song
1) The eagle and the hawk John Denver
2) The music in you by John Denver
In Northern California, there’s lots of wild animals with that comes The cleanup crew. Vultures are patient ravenous creatures that fly in groups. They sit in the trees nest on the side of the bank of the road and wait for the animal to die.
They take turns having their full Unphased by passing cars. They fiercely guard their food. Amazingly, the smell of a dead animal is completely gone before they leave. this took two days before they were onto the next meal.
104 · Mar 2024
It’s My Real Birthday
CJ Sutherland Mar 2024
I celebrated my same birthday
until I was a teen
Everybody knows their birth date
Right?, you know what I mean

But I learned that isn’t so
Validation paperwork I must undergo
I applied for a driver’s permit
I was confused I have to admit

Application required request denied
I know my birthdate I screamed with pride
Fact remained,The wrong date of birth
I began to second guess my self worth

Send away for a certified birth certificate
Anticipate Many questions I accommodate
Answers I thought I knew, I must validate

Questions were rather suggestions
The answers left more questions
My birth date was off by 13 days
Emotionally I was in a haze

My brother calls on my pretend Birthday
With a PEDANTIC choice of words to say
It was a game he would play
At first he hurt my feeling
Sending me in a tizzy dealing
Then I realized he remembers to call  

Thinking back for a word,thought, phrase
A Flooding of memories My heart cried
We had many nannies after mommy died
To young to know, or ask, but I still tried

They said it was a tragedy
Where I stood it was a calamity
My father, a gentle man took a stand
He gave love with open arms and hands

Was my true birthday lost in confusion
Was this mix up a retribution
There was never a final conclusion
Only the correction resolution

I’ve learned not to live in hate and despair
I’ve learned to forgive ,love is in the air
We all have a reason for Being
Knowing without seeing

These life challenges are my test
I learned to take the good with the bad
Most importantly, to do my best
I never found out how or why my birthday was mixed up, ironically I was my fathers favorite
BLT Word of the day challenge
Pedantic
annoying person who makes small correction
103 · 18h
Words of hubris
If                               You  

Don’t             Stand

For

Something

You        Will

Fall                  For

Every                         Thing
X mark’s the spot
103 · Jul 2024
The newborn King
CJ Sutherland Jul 2024
The announcer ;
Hark, who goes there?

Physician;
It is I the village physician
“I have come to bring forth
the birth of the newborn KING”
Physician ; Pray your name kind sir

The announcer;
“I am tasked to
Harold in the birth
Of our blessed King”

Physician;
Time is it hand?

Announcer;
“Hark, the Herald Angels sing
Glory to our newborn King”


OK this is a little lame but it’s the best I could do for this word of the day lol

Inspired song
Hark, the Herald Angels sing, with lyrics
By   Christmas songs and carols
BLT Webster’s Word of the Day challenge
7–26-24 Herald
To give notice, announce publicize and foreshadow to greet, especially with enthusiasm
101 · Mar 2024
Free Range Human
CJ Sutherland Mar 2024
If you think you’re free,
You’re deluding yourself!

150 years ago   
You didn’t have to
Ask PERMISSION of
The GOVERNMENT to;

Go fishing
Own property
Build on your property,
Renovate your home

Use a transportation vehicle
Start a business
Get married
Own a weapon ,Hunt

Sell a product, Protest,
Grow your own food
Sell the food you grew
on your own property
Collect rain water

Have a garage sale
Set up a lemonade stand

You virtually
Can’t do anything
Without asking
The GOVERNMENT ‘S
PERMISSION first

So if you think you are free
You are, deluding yourself

You are a
Free Range Human
on a tax farm
Author unknown 2-28-24
CJ Sutherland Jul 2024
There used to be
a plethora of students
who had to post poems
for school.  

Some felt the teacher’s
assignment was cool,
While others felt
the experience was cruel
.
The tweens, and the in between
Know what I mean
Trying to awaken creativity
Unlocked awareness activity

Some rose to the challenge,
it was wonderful, great
Others refused
to seriously participate .

The kids quickly learned
There are no wrong way
To share what they
want/need to say

Content first meter and style
Will develop after awhile.
The content quickly grew dark
As they open the recess of their heart.

To speak of wanting to DIE
You can feel their battered cry
Grasping with a world of fear
Afraid to say what is imagined or real

Each day worse the the one before
Shooters coming to the classroom door
Panic hide, under your desk, upon the floor
The shooter the only one keeping score

Friends dead before their eyes
Afraid to make a sound; a muffled cry
We all want to know WHY
Responsibility SCHOOLS denies

A million Questions all the same
This was no a drill nor a game
People going insane
Broken people remain

Time to pick up the pieces and move one
Life empty with loved ones gone
There are so little Outlets for creativity is in school today. Without becoming indoctrinated
School shootings there is no acceptable loss. Why don’t they build better schools to protect the youth. There are blue prints . Other schools have implemented to create a safe space. Yet, many schools are unprotected for the life of me. I can’t understand why. Guns don’t **** people
people **** people using guns. they need to get better about seeing the warning signs before the crimes lockdown bullying intimidation what are they turning the youth into when they graduate?
99 · Jun 2024
Two sides to every issue
CJ Sutherland Jun 2024
Hate the other side
Polemic left, right divide
Yet they claim with pride

Hate the other side
Together common causes
Survival tactics

Hate the other side
There is safety in numbers
Evil flow riptide

Hare the other side
Destroy enemy all costs
Unity is lost

Hate the other side
Deception rules the day
Each issue two sides

BLT Webster’s Word of the Day
Polemic 6-23-24 strong, written, or spoken attack against somebody else’s opinion, belief or practice.
RENKU A collaborative form by multiple poets, working together to create a single poem with a 5–7–5 syllables Haiku
Each haiku is ment to be in response to the previous haiku
This poem purposely does not take a side. Whatever side you’re on, they’ll be another side.
There are two sides to a coin.
For me to understand the entire problem, I must be able to equally see both sides.
As an instructor of ethnics ;students had to pick a side and defend their opinion. After they perfected that opinion,
I pulled the rug
each student had to  switch sides and defend the other side. Equally with the same enthusiasm. Only then can we see the fallacies in both sides. I don’t believe in all or nothing statements, the far right. The far left;
People live in the shades of gray between the two polar extremes. The only time there is no solution is when people stop talking
I don’t think I’m always right
By the same token . I’m not always wrong.
But i sure learned a lot along the way.
99 · Feb 2024
Valentine’s Day
CJ Sutherland Feb 2024
Webster’s Word of the Day, Cupid

If you are Married
Or In Love
Valentine’s Day
Comes from Cupid,
Angels up Above

Deliveries to work are Gifts;
Of Candy and Flowers
Evening plans, A romantic
Candlelit Dinner for hours
Followed By
Hugs and endless Kisses,
Many sweet untold Wishes

However, if you Are
Alone or Single
This Day is an empty Heart
That sadly Tingles

One by One
Your Co-Workers
Receives their Deliveries
Their glances of Pity
Only added to my Miseries

Their words of Sympathies
Only deepened my Pain
Hoping the day will End
Before I Go Insane

Now
Hurtful Memories of
Old versus New
Dinner for One
Instead of Two

No, I do not Like
Valentine’s Day.
I wish it Would
Go Away

There was a time When
I to Receive  my Deliveries
Before the Days of Now
And my Miseries

The Man I Love
Did not come Home
I spent Valentine’s Day,
Staring out the Windows Alone
Waiting by the Phone

I cried myself too Sleep.
I thought Life
Couldn’t be more Bleak
For a New Young Wife

He came Home
After a night at the Bar
He had bought me Flowers
Yet left them in the Car

The next Day
When I Awoke
Not a word between Us
We Spoke

He had Retrieved the
Flowers from the Car
And placed them in a Vase.
You should’ve Seen
The Look upon my Face

The Dozen, once Beautifully
Long Stemmed Roses
Had Wilted
Like our Love
Empty and Jilted

I silently Took
A pair of Scissor
From the Drawer  
By the Bed

Cutting the Roses
One by One
At the Base
Of the Bulb Head

My Husband said Nothing
Only shook his Head
in Shame

I set the Scissors Down
Without Placing Blame

I made it Clear
I NEVER Want
Roses on this Day
We never Spoke of it.
What was the Point Anyway?

Valentine ‘s Day
is a Memory
Rubbed in my Face
Bitter Sadness
Take their place

No, I don’t Like
Valentine’s Day.
I wish it Would
Go Away
2-14-2024 This is a revision from 2018
CJ Sutherland Jun 2024
Brilliant minds have decided
To take the next logical step?
They have gathered for
A five day foist Symposium onAI.

What is artificial intelligence made for?
Unbeknownst to humanity scientist focus
On the areas of most significance;
Killing, spying, and brainwashing

Killing soldiers. Relentlessly Efficient,
Plundering Fortunes, spoils of war
******, death, ****, w/o moral ambiguity
Conscience has everyone keeping score

Spying surveillance twenty four seven
No more privacy, monitoring ALL activities
Political views, ****** orientation, money,
Phone, anything deemed inappropriate

“Know it all’s” will immediately rebuff  
This point of view
Conspiracy theory, right on cue
Their response is likely par for the course

You will own nothing And you must love it
Brainwashing, mind control, a brain chip
Keyboarding your thoughts, can it obtain
Who you are, your soul, what will remain?

Are we setting the proverbial stage
For a new form of human existence  life?
Will humans be hunted, The logical treat
AI self taught survival Evolution machine
BLT ;Webster’s Word of the Day Challenge
Unbeknownst6-15-24 unknown to a person or group.
Rebuff 6-14-24 to rebirth is to reject or criticize sharply
This was sitting in my draft poems and I forgot I had done a word of the day slip by so while I’m using the newer one the others are just bonus
Foist 5-31-24
usually used with on or in forced upon another person
A past words just for fun
Symposium 5-26-24
A formal meeting at which experts discuss a particular topic
98 · Jul 2024
My Oh My
CJ Sutherland Jul 2024
Oh What a beautiful morning
Oh, what an impeccable day

I have a fantastic feeling
Everything will be going my way

I don’t always get what I want
Thankfully I get what I need

A hunger to feed
The Holy Spirit to lead

Compassion and love
Grace from up above


Inspired Songs
1)I can see clearly now by Johnny Nash
(One hit wonder)
2) oh, happy Day by
BLT word of the day
Impeccable
Perfect, flawless free of both, error or blame
7-31-24
I’ve been told
I could find happiness
in a
Sh@t storm
97 · Oct 2024
Dazed and Confused
CJ Sutherland Oct 2024
Have you ever woke up thinking
you’re in Twilight zone
I fell asleep, slept hard
Woke up at 6:30

I jumped up out of bed.
I thought it was 6:30 AM.
Half asleep in a daze,
I was amazed

How did that happen?
I sat down in the living room,
turned on the news like usual for 5 AM
I don’t sleep more than two hours at a time


While eating breakfast I noticed
something was wrong I felt fuzzy, sleepy
I had missed the night pills
Plus I was late for my next set of pills.

That’s unusual I should be
hurting more but I wasn’t.
Pill rules never double up
Take your pills adjust the time

Staring at my pills late!
In my case it was two hours early
the fog slowly lifted, I began to reason
something was not right

I thought it was odd
the dog laid there, not moving,
even when I jumped out of bed
He didn’t even raise his head

But something felt wrong
The house still felt hot
I check the weather every morning
Cool morning usually Low 60°

88° that temperature was too hot
I stepped outside. It was dark.
7 o’clock it should be cool
And the sun should be shining

Did I descend into chthonic region ‘s
It was dark and I was little frightened
of what I might find smell of smoke linger
The glow of fire in distant hills

That was my first clue
I finished my cereal fully awake
I flew over the cuckoo’s nest
I’m the fool on the hill

I came to my senses
I think I always knew
The clock on the wall told it all
Crazy time spent, back to bed I went


Inspired song

Dazed and confused
By Led Zeppelin
BLT Websters word of the day Challenge
October 1 2024
Chthonic
Relating to the underworld infernal weird, Eerie

I’ve had this déjà vu moment before, but within a few seconds I can determine what day it is what time it is. But this time it was Rick I was in an alternate world, and I kept saying something does not feel right, as if somebody was listening to me.. it wasn’t until finally looked at an atomic clock on the wall and I was stunned that I was stumped for over a half an hour. I’m losing my marbles.
96 · Dec 2023
What is it to Be Human
CJ Sutherland Dec 2023
The loaded questions
We so cautiously avoid
I don’t want people annoyed

Hot button topics questioned
Should not be mentioned

This has nothing to do with morality.
This is duality and plurality
This is ethics pure and simple

Well, perhaps It’s both
It’s different for each human being
Questions /Answers
A personal thing

The Final ACT of Purging

Trans
Gender
Surgery
Forever
In between
No longer a man
Yet never will or can
Be A biological woman
Caught
In the middle
Forever, Trans

Set aside for
The Moment
Moral Differences
Think empirical

Aren’t WE
ALL transitioning?
In some form
or another?

In the name of
Health and Healing
A heart transplant
Or any major *****

Body augmentation
Prosthetics Apparatus
Knee/hip/pacemaker
Better Faster Stronger
We can LIVE longer
Forever

The question
I am struggling with

What is a human?

Where in the body is the soul?

Are Humans playing god?
Just because we can
Doesn’t mean we should!

As I grow older
My View of life changes
The philosophical approach
is how we justify who we are,
and how we live our life.

Yes, too much in one poem
I’m looking for intellectual Conversation
Let’s Here your reviews;
I desire reason
Food for thought, stimulation
Not fluff or frills
This is not a war of wills
We are all learning to grow
Pick a topic
let us begin
What do YOU THINK
What do you Know

Questioning , probes An Idea,
to thought, consider reason,
foresight, ponder, wisdom,
gain understanding,
enlightenment
I encourage you to pick one of these topics and write a poem about it. Let me know and I will post it on my site. in the notes reference my poem, so all of these different poems can  be linked together the never ending group.
what is that saying
“Great minds think alike.”
94 · Jun 2024
Excessive Heat Watch
CJ Sutherland Jun 2024
Tuesday 8:30 AM, 83° high 103°
A hat, sun protection, the new me
Extreme heat wave
Severe warning  lives to save

Wednesday high of 107°
Heat stroke Elderly going to heaven
Heat will bring you to your knees
Stay inside on days like these

Thursday started out with a breeze
Dog has allergies Constant sneeze
A high of 106° air thick
20 mph wind can do the trick

Our daily walks happen earlier now
It’s hard to get up, but I do somehow
A Dogs, excitement, car ride
The Park to socialize dog friends outside

Blue, his best buddy of the pack
His owner carries a little snack
Daisy Super dog’s Lady love
Dog friends are a gift from above

Friday 7:30 AM, 73° high 102°
Park path colors, Green yellow blue
see the sun through the trees
Birds, butterflies, flowers, and bees

Jehovah’s Witness, literature in hand
Silent when Christians take a stand
Their believe only they are the chosen
No Ideology discussed frozen.

Dehydration dangerously real
Onset Suddenly quick, it can ****
Walk with water and care
Late in the day waves of heat in the air

Freshly planted garden in peril
All in black pots and barrels
A rookie error mistake I  made
The roots are baking in the shade

For the next 10 days over 104°.
plant store efficacious remedies and more
Herbal poultice, tincture and salve pure
Lessons to identify and make plant cures

Put up umbrellas, create shade
Pestilence, sneaky critters well played
Homeless encampment a water cry
Rabbits, Lizards, run shamelessly, nearby

The First Mountain fire of the season
There’s never a rhyme nor reason
Fires are named after their location
Fireman, hope for a short duration

The plumes of smoke Billows everywhere
Smoke smell The first notice of a real scare
Color changes White gray yellowish red
The color determines when humans fled

Higher fires, animal’s scurry Little feet
running frightfully down the street
Under porches, safety shelter they seek
Bears, foxes, possums fearfully, meek

Flying high Hawks, vultures, bald eagle
A big bird took on the leash puppy beagle
Owner screaming her puppy carried away
The leash slip through her fingers that day

In my youth , I used to love a sunny day
Wind in my hair, not a care laughing at play
Old age New allergies, pollen in the air
Excessive Heat, exhaustion, BEWARE
BLT Webster’s Word of the Day challenge
Efficacious 6-12-24
A formal Word that describes something
a treatment, medicine, or remedy that has power to produce a desired result or effect
FYI
For some reason when it gets hot, I perspire that loss of water. Sweat makes me dehydrate easier. My doctor has said I have to drink electrolyte water to stay in balance. A little bit of sweat. takes a lot of water out of your body. If you drink water cold with ice that’s actually worse.
Know the warning signs !
CJ Sutherland Jul 2024
Silence is golden
Don’t air your *****, laundry,
Keep matters private
There are some matters that should be personal private. We’ve become a society who offers too much information. It puts an individual in a precarious situation. Once something becomes public it’s knowledge for ever. Internet, trolls  people trying to steal your identity, the more information you reveal the more you invite calamity
92 · Sep 2024
The Four Horsemen
CJ Sutherland Sep 2024
They will rue the day

                  Rich profit from endless wars

                 Stop no more bloodshed

                        Civil Wars started for less

        Wake up before it’s too late


Tanka Haiku
Five line 31 syllables
Pattern 5–7– 5 – 7–7


Inspired songs
1) Bring our Brothers Home 1972
By The Covered Wagon  Musician

2) War 1971
By Edwin Starr

3) We Got To Get Out Of This Place 1972
By The Animals
BLT Webster’s Word of the Day challenge
Rue 9-23-24,
Some thing to feel penance, remorse, or regret for it. Rue is often used in the phrase “Rue the day”

On Tubi
you can find a documentary called
the four horsemen
it’s free I highly recommend it
Tubi has thousands of great movies you can pay if you don’t want commercials. Otherwise, it’s all free. .
92 · Sep 2024
The Jetson’s Cartoon
CJ Sutherland Sep 2024
60 years ago September 23, 1962
set in 2022 How is it they knew?
The Jetsons futuristic projections
Every detail pure perfection

George Jetson, father, Jane Jetson’s mother
Judy Jetson teenager, Elroy Jetson, bother
Astro Robo dog and the robot maid
Portrayed a futuristic family cartoon played

A push of a button Instant technology
George’s car folds into a portable briefcase
flying cars orbit city. chatterbox (phone)
Video calls, Smart watch, microwaves

If you look it up today critics would
Insist cultural bias gender stereotype.
Children watching the Jetsons cartoons
Call them a Loving Modern Family

In theory productivity gained from electronics would mean less work.
A leisure Society by the year 2000.
Approbation to the creative creations

The motivations for this cartoon; our fears
the Soviet union would win the space race
Futuristic, optimistic cartoon influence, hopes popular culture. Shaping the future

How much would Society be shaped by technology, perceptions and expectations
What can be achieved are as important.
as what actually transpires, methodically

All that in Saturday morning cartoons
Glued to the TV kids over the moon
Dreams of possibilities of what if?
Children were taught to invent gadgets  

Inspired song;

Jetsons theme song, YouTube
BLT Webster’s Word of the Day Challenge
Approbation 9-19-24
A formal word refers to praise or approval
92 · Jul 2024
We Deserve Better Tanka
CJ Sutherland Jul 2024
Don’t be cynical
              Dial down The rhetoric
           The world is watching
       Better class politician
          America still best Hope


Song inspired
another break in the wall part 2
by Pink Floyd

commentary
We don’t need to be at each other’s throats, fighting race, creed, color, woke politics
With all the threats coming to America, we need to hold fast stand strong together
more than ever we need unity.
And prayers
Tanka is a haiku consisting of five lines
31 syllables 5-7-5-7-7
7-20-24
92 · Oct 2024
Spiritual Bliss
CJ Sutherland Oct 2024
Taking Communion

Blood. Body of Christ. Within

Euphoria’s Grin


Where as Haiku
Focuses on nature

Senryu
is concerned
With Human Nature
And it’s Follies

The layout is the same
3 lines
17 syllables
5-7-5 each line

Inspired song
The Lord’s Prayer (it’s yours)
(official music video)YouTube
By Matt Maher
BLT Webster’s Word of the Day Challenge
Euphoria 10-25-24
Refers to a feeling of great happiness and excitement in town, feeling floating on air

When I take communion, something comes over me. My soul weeps deep inside I cry. And I pray for the world. For world is peace. A. Euphoria comes over me as the Holy Spirit washes away, my repentance and my prayers with the blessing of pure Bless. This feeling is known to last for the rest of the day. People would say oh you’re crying can I help you and when I push them away and say I am in Bliss they want to rub my arm as  if My euphoria will rob off on them.
Oh people of little faith.
92 · Jun 2024
Self inflicted
CJ Sutherland Jun 2024
^ ^
(@) (@)
¥
(?)
The         word
Honor
is self                 inflicted
Truth.                                       reality
tainted                                                 twisted
Our.                world
Doused
in                  a  
corrupt        mist
Ignorance
is                       not
always.                                   bliss
CJ Sutherland Jul 2024
Your Subjective truth
Someone else will Not believe
One is right, other wrong
6-9-24
Today’s argument that you believe my way, or hit the highway you’re wrong. So many fallacies in their argument, or lack there of. This is the way it is I don’t have to explain myself do as I say, not as I do.
91 · Sep 2024
Three Rainbow’s
CJ Sutherland Sep 2024
God’s
Pride
And
Joy

God took back his Rainbow glimpses found
A light breeze disturbed wet ground.  
Water glistened in the garden yard
The hose nozzle set on light mist not hard

As I held the hose tip precariously near
Spraying in the air a Rainbow did appear
I followed the Rainbow to it’s other side,
A strong beautiful message God’s Pride

Red yellow purple blue and green
Every color imagined in between
Vivacious vibrant bright and clear
In the mist a Rainbow fully appeared

further back into the yard I persevered
In the mist a second Rainbow appeared
Starting ending in a different spot.
A third time I moved to the back of the lot

Spouting from the end of the nozzle hose
A glorious mist touched my nose
The Rainbow had never appeared before
However why three not four or more

The vibrant colors blessed my eyes  
Joyfully an angel’s whimsical Surprise
Three Rainbows blessed the pathway
Heavenly host a miracle per se  

Third times a charm I extend my arm
Gracefully swirling mist everywhere
The spray gently moving into the air
I could follow all three Rainbows there.

My daily prayers, in a state of grace
There was a ethereal glow on my face
It happened on the Lord’s day of rest
Observance a Constant struggle my test

God gave me a three Rainbows
Why?  only God knows
Perhaps the Holy Spirit wanted me to smile
For a while I marveled like a little child


Inspired songs
1) Somewhere over the rainbow
by Judy Garland 1939 The Wizard of Oz
CJ Sutherland Sep 2017
I am
a lady
Filled with
  ****** sensation
Fluid flowing freely
Sensuality grows
sexuality shows
As rapid as
a humming bird's
wings
As silent as
the flowers of spring
I blossom like
fragrant flowers
Opening and closing
For hours
Waiting for
the right man
To plant
Desire
The seed
Of anticipation
Mounts
I wrote this when I was 22
CJ Sutherland Apr 2024
4:00am) sleep more sleep , rise and shine
One eye open, It’s breakfast time
6 :10) choose the biggest bird from the pen
plucked the feathers off the hen

12 noon) set the table; knife, fork,spoon
1:03)clean house chase A wayward mouse

2::00pm) sewing time quilting blankets,
We make our clothes,No buying of the rack
Dresses tops, skirts and slacks
All stitched from flower sacks
Crochet and macramé a fun part of the day

5 past 4) pastry flower on the floor
Baking bread, baking Apple pies
The smell puts a smile in our eyes
Canning tomatoes canning Peas
learning different techniques like these

So much life ahead, bursting at the seams
Planning future planning dreams
5:03) My intended is down on bended knee
He has chosen to spend a life with me
A wife and mother is all I wanted to be

20past 4) we struggle to make ends meet. We both wanted so much more.
My husband Drafted in The Vietnam war
College books in hand, baby  on my knee
A big world to see Who will I  be?

5 PM) Dinner on the table. It’s a struggle,
but I am willing, and able.
Baby’s bath, bed, stories, and prayers said
9:09) quiet at last it’s study time

10:00pm)Time to lay down, I need my rest
Long hours long days,  I tried my best
Sometimes In this hard life, I felt so alone
11:00pm) Husband calls on the phone
Barely alive He’s coming home.

Thanks be to the Lord
His words, my comfort,
My shield, my sword.

Together family, we strive to work survive
Our children have grow. Lives of their own
Midnight ) Empty nest just us two we atone  
Quiet is the sound when no one is around
we weathered the storms, faced our fears
Huddled together, through the tears,


4 AM ) Now in the twilight of our soul
there will come a day to pay the toll
When God will take us home
No longer to feel alone
Lives lived to the fullest were we deceived?
we believed, and blessings we received

Hopefully God’s purpose we achieved
Everything we have learned
to discern was within God’s Ken

One day for men is 1000 years for God
2Peter 3:8 KJV
BLT Websters’s word of the day challenge?
KEN
Means a person or someone’s range of perceptions knowledge or understanding using phrases like beyond\outside\within one’s KEN
90 · Aug 2024
The Gift Of Gab
CJ Sutherland Aug 2024
My first night of teaching
post secondary education
medical billing program
Two year a.s. degree

there was so much
I still didn’t know.
It was during my
introduction lecture
Going over the fine points,

A student raised your hand.
she asked, “isn’t it break time”?
Not knowing when Break time was
I was in a quandary

I didn’t want the Students
to know I was an ignorant
new teacher. I called on my inner
confidence then gave a short
extemporaneous speech;

“OK class let’s make sure
we’re all on the same page
can anyone tell me
when is Break time ?”
all the hands go up

Susie beamed
with the knowledge,
She would be answering
the first of what would be
many questions in
our time together.

With conviction she blurts out
From 7 PM to 7:15 PM  I looked around
the room and said“Does everybody agree? The class looked a little puzzled then, nodding in unison  I said OK I just wanted be on the same page. So no one should be late . let’s take a 15 minute break and everybody should be back here at 7:15 PM.

The next morning
in the teachers lounge,
I told my first day story
(Death by fire)

The teachers had a good chuckle
They were impressed with my impromptu
Handling of the situation without
The students becoming aware

I flashed my smile and said
Sometimes you have to
fake it until you make it
The teachers laughed.
We’ve all been there.


Inspired song
1) Another brick in the wall,
part two with lyrics
By the  Pink Floyd
BLT Webster’s word of the day challenge
Extemporaneous 8-2-24
Impromptu conversation, off the curb, not memorized. Something that is not made or done without special preparation.
90 · Aug 2024
Shangri-La
CJ Sutherland Aug 2024
Where it’s not too hot

Not too cold, clement climate

A place in mind


Modern Haiku
Three lines
5-7-5 syllables each line



Inspired song,
sunshine on my shoulders
By John Denver
BLT Webster’s Word of the Day challenge
Clement8-29-24
Whether that is not too hot or not too cold homeostasis
87 · Aug 2024
Too Short
CJ Sutherland Aug 2024
A fly lives three days
Complete full in every way
A long life measured



Inspired song
1) The fly  by Foster & Allen

2) there was an old lady
who swallowed the fly
by the learning center
Time is an interesting thing. The average person lives 80 to 100 years period yet in three days. A fly will live a complete life. Who’s to say three days is not enough time. Time is relative
CJ Sutherland Jul 2024
We think we are free
Bank moguls control the world
Media obeys
Castigate to submission
One world order forming now
BLT Webster’s Word of the Day
mogul 7-6-24
A powerful and influential person
Castigate 7-5-24
A formal word that means to criticize harshly synonym in chastise to punish to censor someone

Living in a bubble.,we think we are free. But in reality we are controlled by everything we hear and everything we see
Tanka
A type of haiku
Using metaphors similes to convey complex elaborate ideas, and allows for more expanded exploration more then a haiku. a short story
31. Syllables five line 5–7–5 – 7–7.
84 · Apr 2024
Wind blows
CJ Sutherland Apr 2024
What
               comes
                                  next?
GOD
               Only
                                knows
  It
               all
                                depends
upon
                       which
                                       way
the
             wind
                                blows
84 · Jun 2024
Cycle complete Haiku
CJ Sutherland Jun 2024
Butterfly people
Caterpillar chrysalis
Transformation fly
We have a butterfly exhibit that houses, hundreds of different species of butterflies from all over the world. Even though there are double *****, so the butterflies don’t get out they still do. These butterflies have migrated all around the local area. The Arboretum has a list of plants you can get that would benefit the butterflies that I have them all. The butterflies fly by people they’re so used to people go land right on you if you stay still and put your arms out. Or in the wild there, a little bit more skittish with all the noise. But if you ever have a chance to go to a butterfly Arboretum there is nothing better in life than to have 20 butterflies landing on your arm. and had at one single time
81 · Jul 9
Born procrastinator
In A babbling Brook words, flow free
Too early to know
too early to see
what will be
Pen to paper a poem is born,  
Loose in content shape and form

TickTock the clock good and not.
Not the best concept I had
The spark, a word, a phrase, a line,
A moment in time,,
A Premise a plot

Quickly scribbling a rough draft down
Words, flow free quickness can be found
Then I find myself still looking around
Second-guessing the words flow meter sound
procrastination drives the poem
into draft mode until I see the light

Truth be told it’s procrastination
My infatuation it’s not complete
Elusive time passes
  revising in days weeks months
Sometimes it sits in exile
Out of the blue once in a while
The poem will come together
I smile

Revisions glow
It perplexes me to know
I struggle with this fight
at the end of the day,
when I read it
In my head, then out loud
I’m saying yes yes yes
it’s  done

Still I sit on it a day
just for fun
I Read it in the new day
of the dawning sun
Procrastination has gone?
Out of excitement or boredom,
I post the poem

It always surprises me when the poem
Is met with celebration
this painstaking collaboration
While other times, I’m sure
I’ve knocked it out of the park
Yet the poem remains in the dark,
not read
Silenced
a voice unsaid

There’s something to say for procrastination
It can be a healthy determination
Other times words, thoughts  
flows so freely
I don’t take the time to pre-read
as much as I should
.3:00am I post a poem.
Never advisable nor good

Honestly, the poem is
really still a draft
Celebrated, with errors
never mentioned
I have to laugh

I wonder do they not see them?
Or are they just being kind?
I would appreciate negativity
In a private message
Not on the World  stage of opinion
You get further with honey
Then with vinegar
I’m not interested in sinister


BlT Webster’s word of the day challenge
July 7, 2025 procrastination
To procrastinate is to be slow or late about doing something that should be done, or about doing or attending to things in general
Keeping true to me this is yesterday’s word
I blew it. It’s absurd.
Today’s word July 8, 2025 is exemplary
Of which this would not be a example
CJ Sutherland Jun 2024
Illegals whatever term is politically correct
The situation will worsen if left unchecked
hell-bent on taking America down
Started in the cities , and then in the towns

First they steal our ID then our home
They work in packs, groups, not alone
Protests pretense for violence in our streets
Enlisting people on the Internet with tweets

Wake Up! Where do we draw the line?
Civil unrest through the passage of time
Lessons ignorant Americans must learn
Emotions; anger rage hatred, to Discern

Protesters have become embolden
Is the United States now beholden?
Yet, if this was done in their country or land
Strict penalty Cut off their head or hand

Nations deride America as soft and weak
They want to bring her to her feet
They use intimidation to gain control
That’s what they learn, it’s all they know

Americans are frustrated by their rage
This is not how America chooses to engage
Push comes to shove what do we do?
America needs to stand up or die a fool

Illegal Immigrants invaded our land
Not to assimilate but to take a stand
Our values of freedom must stay the same
They claim to be Americans only In name

If all our rules are unacceptable don’t delay
There’s absolutely no need to stay
Red white and blue the American way
paid the price, freedom ,values, won’t sway

10 million people illegally now are here
Death to America is what they chant, cheer
Our government is responsible for this
To gain political power, tyrannical bliss

Pull back the curtain Eugenics at play
Powerful people demand their say
Our future is not going to end well
America, emerging AI, the new living hell

BLT where does the day challenge?
Deride 6-3-24
To DERIDE  someone or some thing is to subject them to usually harsh and bitter, insults or criticism
Americans need to stand strong together. Agree to disagree. Safety in numbers. We are at a precipice. There are forces that want to destroy America. we’re too busy squabbling amongst ourselves like bratty little children.. The whole thing about having a gun, the 2nd and 14th amendment in our constitution, is to protect us from The enemy, foreign and DOMESTIC . It’s not about these silly little issues. People will never see eye to eye. These are distractions they don’t matter. The bigger picture.. it’s about good versus evil. Think what it means for our nation to be A Marxist socialization humanization dictator Country. We are the only place on earth that is like America. Why do you think so many people want to get in your country even illegally? . I just don’t get why people don’t realize the consequences.
72 · Jul 6
Who are “They”
I’m just saying
Madder than a hornets
fit to be tired
It’s gonna be a bumpy ride
I’m continuous today
I’m speaking my mind in every way
My guff is full I have much to convey.
Who are they?

Where is congressional oversight?
“They “ won’t leave without a fight
Who are  behind  the elusive “they”
that hide a bill in the darkest night
people are told to vote on it ,without Sight

You can read the bill
after you voted it into law
Is that how all the flamboyant money disappears?
That would justify our suspicions our fears
“They say trust me ,
Predator or prey who are they?

This has been going on for decades
That is the excuse of their charades
Filibustering a bill that will help Americans
For the sake of their constituents
I wonder are they on drugs ******* barbiturate

who are “they “ beholden to
“They” got him into Office what were they buying?
“They” made a deal with the devil constant lying
Naïve, do gooders The government not on the level
  
Isn’t the whole principal flawed?
Predator or prey
Who are they? no more hiding
“They” Seek reek havoc in plain sight

Mostly peaceful protest fire bright
Burning Tesla in broad daylight
Congressional representatives bullhorn in hand
Calling the people To rise up to take a stand

How did they get into government
With their agenda on  race Hate
What about the oath “they” swore
American’s should be saying No More

Who are “they” that infiltrate our interior?
Insisting race, creed color, superior
Why do They find America inferior?
So much they want to tear it down.
Threatening the United States like a clown

Why Would they double down
Unable to profit from the lush trust funds they built
LLC’s exposed follow the money trail tilt
Who are they? How far how deep does this run?

Government officials go into politics to become rich
Off of the backs of the middle class and poor without a stitch  people don’t matter
Americans are waking up now know the score

To the obscene schemes Money laundering
Too fantastical to be true if we really knew
It doesn’t matter what letter is behind “their”names
both sides are lining their pockets,
Like Davy Crockett

feathering their cap for decades hidden
millions billions trillions hide it locket it
How deep does it go? We may never know.
Who are “They” who reap what they sew

Elon admits a target on his back he might be killed
The obscene amount of money power “they” yield
Scratch the surface, don’t go too deep
They’ll dig his grave, keep exposing, don’t sleep

Too far down the rabbit hole to stop now
Corruption in every agency people ask How?
Hear the accusations, give the benefit of the doubt
Ask motivation “They” who the loudest shout

What do “they”not want us to know see
Why do “they” put a false pretest leave it be
What do they stand to lose?
Follow the money innocent or guilty choose

I’m Not on either side.American citizens
want to know where our money was spent
It’s so incredible. It’s hard to believe it’s true.
Congressional hearings bring the receipts

Follow the money from beginning to end
Regardless, who and ware banking sends
America has the right to know what laws are being broke middle class and poor pocketbook spoke

When a person in power comes up for reelection
Their report card should be under inspection
Every bill “ they”voted on or said NO to
should be their report card for the people  to see.

No more behind closed doors. Americans are the bosses to see their test scores.
I’m on the side of Justice for
the United States of America

I’m on the sides of less government more freedom for the people. I don’t want to hear rhetoric double talk or hyperbole show me the proof no more stonewalling no more double talk lying and bamboozling no more stratagem

American people ask, how do you know when a government officials is lying?
punchline their lips are moving
People vote people are choosing informed facts no more boozing snoozing hush Mooney under the table no more special interest payments

Once you good name is lost. It’s lost forever.
They need to prove to the American people
What we bought and paid for
Protect those who are exposing the bad
Protect the whistleblower enough they’ve had
Bring it all to light and let’s clean up the mess
Lowering the budget is anybody’s guess

American towns are burning. What are we learning? They don’t want the truth to come out.
They want the **** killer murderers to stay in our country why?
Who are “They”

Inspired song

What’s going on? 1971
By Marvin Gaye

Money
By Pink Floyd

Street fighting man
By The Rolling Stones 1968

Footnote
I started this poem when Biden was in office and it sat in my draft for a couple of years so this blast the past both administrations, both presidents
just goes to show. History has a way of repeating each other and not in a good way.
I’m not on either side. I’m on the side for the people. However, my Verison may be different, but I’d like to see America great again. Governor Newsom is putting out all these TV ads saying it’s about corporate greed two oil companies are shutting down if they are so greedy in getting so rich why are they leaving because they’re getting slammed with the cost and they can’t afford it. When the banks were falling down May, the government stepped in, but when they’re gonna be charging $10 a gallon for gas, nobody says a dang thing. Three phases of building low income housing for immigrants. Yet Americans have been waiting for years. The newhousing for immigrants
Will be complete in November.. Siri is not ready. We are small rural and we have three sheriffs. That’s it. There’s a small supermarket that was meant for their fishing boating people going up to the lake. This market is directly across the street from the New housing. The park right next-door is a favorite for drug addicts The city’s way to potential problems is to put in bright lighting. It was shining all the apartments that they just made it makes no sense. Immigrants will get free busing from one part to the other. Without a car this is not the place for anyone restarted a neighborhood patrol. I don’t know how effective that will be..
BLT Websters word of the day challenge
July 5, 2025, cantankerous
A cantankerous person is often angry and annoyed, and a cantankerous animal or thing is difficult and irritating to deal with
67 · Jun 2024
Cacophony Haiku
CJ Sutherland Jun 2024
Protesters threaten
Tear Gas, Smoke Bomb Vial stench
Smell Wafted through the air
3-13-24
Webster’s Word of the Day
cacophony
Harsh unharmonious down example
Dishes, crashing on the floor, horn blaring in the street, people yelling in protest
Even though this word was months ago, I wanted to continue to use some of these older words to strengthen my
lexicon
The Vocabulario of a person
CJ Sutherland Jun 2024
Balance of power
USA vulnerable
Paradigm shift
BLT Webster’s Word of the Day challenge
6-21-24
vulnerable
A person, group, or thing that is open to attack harm or damage
65 · Jul 2024
The heart of the matter
CJ Sutherland Jul 2024
Life.                                     Calling
Is
Pick.                                                           Up
The.                                 ­                         phone
Your                              ­                    Children’s
Children.                                                  Will
Remember.        ­                                    All
You                                               Are
Part.                                              Of
History.                                   It’s
Time.                                To
 Tell                 Yo­ur
Tale


Song inspired
1)My generation by the who
2) California dreaming
By the mamas and the Papas
3)Where have all the flowers gone
by Peter Paul and Mary
4)Respect by Aretha Franklin
5)Good vibrations by the Beach boys
6) (I left my heart) in San Francisco
By Tony Bennett
7-19-24
I

   D
      A
        N
          G
       L
E
my participles
               To throw people
                       off of the scent of
Mr premise
            whose
              always guilty

                          Proceeding are a

          Cast of cowards
                       Colossal failures
                                        Contrite
       ­                       Abject Apologies
Corporate greed
           will never concede
                                  Defending
             ­                          There is NO need



Inspired songs
American woman
By The Guess Who 1970

You’re the one that I want
By John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John 1978



Written
July 15, 2025
BLT Webster’s word of the day challenge
July 16, 2025 abject
Abject usually describes things that are extremely bad or severe. It can also describe something that feels or shows shame, or someone lacking courage or strength.
52 · Dec 2023
Forever Friends
CJ Sutherland Dec 2023
As a child, Elementary school
I remember getting A heart necklace
cut in half. We each have half
From my best friend. Friends to the end

  45 years, later we’re no longer friends
The friendship just ends
No hearts to mend
I just can’t pretend
That broke my soul
When she so easily let go

You might wonder
What could’ve happened
Biden versus Trump
One of us had to go
And I was the last to know

I had another friend
47 years we parted ways
In a public forum heated crazy
Biden versus Trump

I’ve never knew Somethings so silly
Can turn friendship to hate
Destiny or fate
When I ask why she hurt my heart
She said, whatever do you mean
By far the cruelest thing I’ve ever seen

Some people will never
have friends for that long
We danced over a lifetime of songs
People change over time this is true
But even through parting ways we grew

New friends are all around
Waiting to be found
People we meet in passing
At a gathering ,the grocery store
In many places more

Some we meet for a reason
Others longer for a season
A time and time, and a half, a time
We may never know God’s plan
.
We may never know why
A stranger offers a hand
Or why to talk
We chose to talk to a person that day
Or what profound effect came their way.
That still small voice told you what to say
and you listened.

The neighbors in passing,
and those you get to know,
perhaps a friendship
will blossom and grow.

The Uber driver
the Starbucks, coffee, maker,
The checker at the store.
We don’t think about them
That person who open the door for you

A kindness shown nothing for you to do..
Those people in line, random all by chance. look up from your phone,
Did you give them a glance.
Next time, give that stranger a chance.
I know in today’s climate
that’s a dicey position
Here that still  small voice,Listen
and hopefully make the transition
You might just meet you next best friend
Growing up, I was taught the two things you never discuss our politics and religion. My two best friends decided to end my friendship because I voted for Donald Trump. I really thought in time they would come around and see. That’s a silly reason we’ve weathered many. More prevalent storms, no matter what we always stayed friends even if we didn’t agree, so this one was hard to see and for me, it’s hard to accept
These two friendships lasted longer than many marriages
CJ Sutherland May 26
Will you Stand Up
Against the grain of society
Defying deceptive opposition
Denouncing  Satan, The One
Who’ll Claim to be almighty God?
He mesmerizes the world
Delivering dyspeptic rants
Denounced all other gods
Popularity grows worldwide
Creating Miracles Healing Sick
Fallen Angels all around him
Evil Demons , chaos destruction,
Will you say “that’s not God”
“That’s the prophesied AntiChrist”
Knowing the consequences
Your Life expectancy
Diminishes swiftly
Instant Death

Will the Ends
Justify
The Means

The Last act
Of defiance
Will takes
Immense
Courage

Faith
As small As
A Mustard Seed
Can move
Mountains

Emulating
Role models
Shadrach
Meshach
Abednego
Daniel 3:8-30

Will you refuse?
To bow down to a
self-proclaimed god
At the threat of death?

Most lukewarm Christians
Can’t withstand temptation

Lead us not into temptation
But Deliver us from evil
(From the Lord’s Prayer)

Inspired Songs:

Amazing Grace with lyrics YouTube
By RosemarySiemens 1979

Why should the Devil have all the good music?
By Larry Norman 1972

This is Amazing Grace(modern rendition)
Maranatha music lyric video 1979
Traditional – he’s got the whole world in his hands
YouTube listen and read along
BLT word of the day challenge May 25, 2024
Dyspeptic
A formal and old-fashioned word used to describe somebody who is bad tempered  in other words, easily annoyed, or angered., Or somebody that shows off its characteristic of a bad temper, the noun form
Of dyspeptic is dyspepsia

Footnotes
Studying the book of Revelation, I started thinking what would tribulation look like? Do you take the mark of the beast or not
knowing you can’t buy you buy food no water
. Moral character will be defined instantly.

— The End —