Poems From A Spiritual Heart: Swirling Thoughts: "A poem about how we are all so connected that one person's misfortune feels like our own."
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Saturday, June 18, 2011
Poems From A Spiritual Heart: Swirling Thoughts
Poems From A Spiritual Heart: Swirling Thoughts: "A poem about how we are all so connected that one person's misfortune feels like our own."
Wednesday, June 15, 2011
Poems From A Spiritual Heart: Those Funny Memories
Poems From A Spiritual Heart: Those Funny Memories: "From Denny: It is odd how the mind works, never knowing what will rise to the surface sometimes, no matter how organized and methodical you fancy yourself to be. I've often wondered what triggers old memories, especially the ones that make us chuckle."
Friday, February 25, 2011
In Passing poem - Libations Friday 25 Feb 2011
A reflection upon just how much work we heap upon ourselves by resisting the obvious.
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Popular Posts 2010 at Ouch Outrageous Obnoxious And Odd
Get your laughs here and watch your bad day melt away while you fall off your chair laughing.
My favorite outrageous person on the planet: Lady Gaga
From Denny: Thank you for your support this year! Keep laughing through your work week.
Check out the 2009 most popular posts too: Popular Posts 2009 at OOOAO Humor Blog, Thank You!
Here are the 2010 favorites:
Outrageous Funny Photos: This Is So Wrong...
Obamas Kick Ass Comments Cartoons - 12 June 2010
Funny Video: Colberts Sound Advice on How to Get a Job
Quote About Humor in Life
New Years: Funny Quotes, Resolutions Tips, Poems
Best New Years Cartoons 2010
Funny Essay on Why Santa Must Really Be A Woman
Ouch Outrageous: How the Christmas Tree Angel Really Got to the Top
Funny Christmas Quotes and More Holiday Fun
Video: Funniest Sarcastic Answering Machine Message Newly Released for ALL School Systems
25 Funny Quotes about Jokes and Politics
College Grads Chances of Finding Jobs: Political Cartoons
51 Funny Political Cartoons - Sex Scandals, Rove, Obama, Health Care, Tea Party - 27 Mar 2010
My favorite outrageous person on the planet: Lady Gaga
From Denny: Thank you for your support this year! Keep laughing through your work week.
Check out the 2009 most popular posts too: Popular Posts 2009 at OOOAO Humor Blog, Thank You!
Here are the 2010 favorites:
Outrageous Funny Photos: This Is So Wrong...
Obamas Kick Ass Comments Cartoons - 12 June 2010
Funny Video: Colberts Sound Advice on How to Get a Job
Quote About Humor in Life
New Years: Funny Quotes, Resolutions Tips, Poems
Best New Years Cartoons 2010
Funny Essay on Why Santa Must Really Be A Woman
Ouch Outrageous: How the Christmas Tree Angel Really Got to the Top
Funny Christmas Quotes and More Holiday Fun
Video: Funniest Sarcastic Answering Machine Message Newly Released for ALL School Systems
25 Funny Quotes about Jokes and Politics
College Grads Chances of Finding Jobs: Political Cartoons
51 Funny Political Cartoons - Sex Scandals, Rove, Obama, Health Care, Tea Party - 27 Mar 2010
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
Most Popular Posts 2010 at The Soul Calendar
Check out the popular science stories this year that fascinated us like the volcanic explosions and earthquakes.
From Denny: Thanks for all your support this year! What a year of massive planet wide geologic changes: polar glacial ice caps melting rapidly, high scale earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and around the world, volcanoes spewing lava high into the air in Iceland and Indonesia - stopping air travel. It's been a humbling year for the human race on planet Earth. Floods, blizzards, mudslides, oceans rising, the Earth is changing and we are here to witness it.
Just this December we got to see the first lunar eclipse on a Winter Solstice, the first in almost 500 years. The next one is scheduled for 2094. Here in my region of the world we experienced the British Petroleum Oil Spill Disaster. As usual Big Business and the governments like America and Britain have shafted the locals who have gone bankrupt, personal and business. The millions of barrels of oil still lurks on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and continues to wash ashore. There are now light orange alligators found off the coast of Florida.
Here in Louisiana BP's oil spill devastated our fishing industry, killing the oyster beds and safe fishing grounds for everything from shrimp and spillway crawfish to salt water fish. The fishing industry has declined by 70 percent with no help from BP or our federal government. Big Business is just plain greedy and refuses to take care of the planet and future generations.
Out of this oil spill disaster has come some interesting ideas of how to clean up future oil spills. More ideas abound for new types of alternative fuels using the ocean to help produce it. Humanity can be innovative and creative if we just curb our greed to use our resources faster than we can replace them.
Take a look around. There are plenty of humor posts too and lots of technology cartoons for a grin.
The Soul Calendar - Wondering about our universe and the universe inside us.
Check out these posts too: Most Popular Posts 2009 at The Soul Calendar
Here's the most popular posts for 2010:
Rare 500 Year Lunar Eclipse Gets Viewed By 1.5 Billion
Popular Funny X-ray Pin-Ups Calendar: Stripped to the Bone
New Years: Funny Quotes, Resolutions Tips, Poems
From Denny: Thanks for all your support this year! What a year of massive planet wide geologic changes: polar glacial ice caps melting rapidly, high scale earthquakes in Haiti, Chile and around the world, volcanoes spewing lava high into the air in Iceland and Indonesia - stopping air travel. It's been a humbling year for the human race on planet Earth. Floods, blizzards, mudslides, oceans rising, the Earth is changing and we are here to witness it.
Just this December we got to see the first lunar eclipse on a Winter Solstice, the first in almost 500 years. The next one is scheduled for 2094. Here in my region of the world we experienced the British Petroleum Oil Spill Disaster. As usual Big Business and the governments like America and Britain have shafted the locals who have gone bankrupt, personal and business. The millions of barrels of oil still lurks on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico and continues to wash ashore. There are now light orange alligators found off the coast of Florida.
Here in Louisiana BP's oil spill devastated our fishing industry, killing the oyster beds and safe fishing grounds for everything from shrimp and spillway crawfish to salt water fish. The fishing industry has declined by 70 percent with no help from BP or our federal government. Big Business is just plain greedy and refuses to take care of the planet and future generations.
Out of this oil spill disaster has come some interesting ideas of how to clean up future oil spills. More ideas abound for new types of alternative fuels using the ocean to help produce it. Humanity can be innovative and creative if we just curb our greed to use our resources faster than we can replace them.
Take a look around. There are plenty of humor posts too and lots of technology cartoons for a grin.
The Soul Calendar - Wondering about our universe and the universe inside us.
Check out these posts too: Most Popular Posts 2009 at The Soul Calendar
Here's the most popular posts for 2010:
Rare 500 Year Lunar Eclipse Gets Viewed By 1.5 Billion
Popular Funny X-ray Pin-Ups Calendar: Stripped to the Bone
New Years: Funny Quotes, Resolutions Tips, Poems
Monday, December 13, 2010
The International Spy poem - Libations Monday 13 Dec 2010
Step into the world of the spy and witness the effect they have upon the people they meet - until one day they meet someone who poignantly affects them. A true story from my travels - and childhood.
The International Spy
A strange man sat down to talk
Acting like a best friend
His way was too familiar
He stirred a distant memory
Words he spoke stepped careful
Thoughts he said trotted calculated
Attitude sailed smooth, controlling
Clutching analytical mental paper
He placed me under his microscope
Probing for easy weaknesses
Character flaws to his advantage
Confident I had no strengths, too sure
The top dress of a spy is arrogance
Flattery he carried in his pocket
Revealing more about him than me
An aging man, shadow of a vibrant self
He talked on oblivious to my notice
Curious about my hotel choice in Europe
He inquired as to my reasoning for it
The days of the microscopic life flew
Back into my mind from childhood
Where I had grow up in this ugly world
Of the intelligence community gone bad
Cruel insensitive people studied children
And wives like we were things not people
Most cared not about us, a few felt pangs
Of terrible guilt for their meanest wrongs
I knew exactly what I had in front of me
As I vacationed in Europe for culture
When I was studied as a child I studied them
People are as interesting as they can be cruel
I considered what to say and measured my words
Knowing all would be recorded as infinite detail
This man was not here for what he presumed
Following up on a CIA child to recruit and destroy
What he never calculated was decades had passed
Training in all manners of wisdom was mine
So I let him engage to watch it all unfold and
He drank 8 shots of whiskey a glass as show
He drank all night, the bar owner glanced at me
I motioned to pour on and the old man drank
Like a lot of spies he learned how to drink
And sober up no matter how much he drank
Observe a sleepiness and then a head jerk
His eyes and speech would clear and sober again
He had mastered his body’s reaction
But still his emotional heart was raw
He was angry I would not match his drinks
Angry he could not intimidate nor bully
I spent the night repeating “No, thanks”
A woman waiting patiently for his real story
The questions he asked gave me information
I returned his questions with questions
Answering his while I led through the labyrinth
He had methodically constructed to trap me
He talked for hours long into the night
He worked hard to unbalance me
So I let him see my anger at his kind
I let him know the damage he had done
I unloaded condemnation and judgment
And the fury in his eyes threw daggers
As he watched his speech, I stood firm
Hurling words to pierce his hard heart
He had stepped into a hornet’s nest
And tried to calm and redirect but there
Was no going back, his words stumbled
As he tried to regain control never owned
I left him to ponder his inner fool that night
He showed up early the next morning
Humbler, still tenacious to fulfill his mission
Intervening, the awareness finally jumped him
It was never about me that night
He met himself reflected in my eyes
He was at the end of his long life
And now he realized why it had always
Felt
Wrong
Denny Lyon
Copyright 4 Dec 2010
All Rights Reserved
*** For more poetry check out my poetry blog: Poems From A Spiritual Heart
*** THANKS for visiting, feel welcome to drop a comment or opinion, enjoy bookmarking this post on your favorite social site, a big shout out to awesome current subscribers – and if you are new to this blog, please subscribe in a reader or by email updates!
*** Come by for a visit and check out my other blogs:
*** Check out Holiday Recipes From Dennys Food and Recipes
The Social Poets - news, politics
The Soul Calendar - science, astronomy, psychology
Visual Insights - photos, art, music
Beautiful Illustrated Quotations - spiritual quotes, philosophy
Best Spiritual Posts - my own best as well as links to other spiritual posts from all viewpoints
Poems From A Spiritual Heart - poetry
The Healing Waters - health news
Dennys People Watching - people in the news
Dennys Food and Recipes
Dennys Funny Quotes - humor
Photo Credits
Man's face in shadow photo by Derrick T @ flickr
Walking on a cobblestone street photo by loop_oh @ flickr
Woman's face in shadow photo by shazwan @ flickr
Bar photo by beerbybart @ flickr
Old man and whiskey photo by graywolfx47 @ flickr (a recovering alcoholic)
Clock photo by ~Duncan~ @ flickr
Fork in shadow photo by (matt) @ flickr
Tree in shadow photo by hapal @ flickr
The International Spy
A strange man sat down to talk
Acting like a best friend
His way was too familiar
He stirred a distant memory
Words he spoke stepped careful
Thoughts he said trotted calculated
Attitude sailed smooth, controlling
Clutching analytical mental paper
He placed me under his microscope
Probing for easy weaknesses
Character flaws to his advantage
Confident I had no strengths, too sure
The top dress of a spy is arrogance
Flattery he carried in his pocket
Revealing more about him than me
An aging man, shadow of a vibrant self
He talked on oblivious to my notice
Curious about my hotel choice in Europe
He inquired as to my reasoning for it
The days of the microscopic life flew
Back into my mind from childhood
Where I had grow up in this ugly world
Of the intelligence community gone bad
Cruel insensitive people studied children
And wives like we were things not people
Most cared not about us, a few felt pangs
Of terrible guilt for their meanest wrongs
I knew exactly what I had in front of me
As I vacationed in Europe for culture
When I was studied as a child I studied them
People are as interesting as they can be cruel
I considered what to say and measured my words
Knowing all would be recorded as infinite detail
This man was not here for what he presumed
Following up on a CIA child to recruit and destroy
What he never calculated was decades had passed
Training in all manners of wisdom was mine
So I let him engage to watch it all unfold and
He drank 8 shots of whiskey a glass as show
He drank all night, the bar owner glanced at me
I motioned to pour on and the old man drank
Like a lot of spies he learned how to drink
And sober up no matter how much he drank
Observe a sleepiness and then a head jerk
His eyes and speech would clear and sober again
He had mastered his body’s reaction
But still his emotional heart was raw
He was angry I would not match his drinks
Angry he could not intimidate nor bully
I spent the night repeating “No, thanks”
A woman waiting patiently for his real story
The questions he asked gave me information
I returned his questions with questions
Answering his while I led through the labyrinth
He had methodically constructed to trap me
He talked for hours long into the night
He worked hard to unbalance me
So I let him see my anger at his kind
I let him know the damage he had done
I unloaded condemnation and judgment
And the fury in his eyes threw daggers
As he watched his speech, I stood firm
Hurling words to pierce his hard heart
He had stepped into a hornet’s nest
And tried to calm and redirect but there
Was no going back, his words stumbled
As he tried to regain control never owned
I left him to ponder his inner fool that night
He showed up early the next morning
Humbler, still tenacious to fulfill his mission
Intervening, the awareness finally jumped him
It was never about me that night
He met himself reflected in my eyes
He was at the end of his long life
And now he realized why it had always
Felt
Wrong
Denny Lyon
Copyright 4 Dec 2010
All Rights Reserved
*** For more poetry check out my poetry blog: Poems From A Spiritual Heart
*** THANKS for visiting, feel welcome to drop a comment or opinion, enjoy bookmarking this post on your favorite social site, a big shout out to awesome current subscribers – and if you are new to this blog, please subscribe in a reader or by email updates!
*** Come by for a visit and check out my other blogs:
*** Check out Holiday Recipes From Dennys Food and Recipes
The Social Poets - news, politics
The Soul Calendar - science, astronomy, psychology
Visual Insights - photos, art, music
Beautiful Illustrated Quotations - spiritual quotes, philosophy
Best Spiritual Posts - my own best as well as links to other spiritual posts from all viewpoints
Poems From A Spiritual Heart - poetry
The Healing Waters - health news
Dennys People Watching - people in the news
Dennys Food and Recipes
Dennys Funny Quotes - humor
Photo Credits
Man's face in shadow photo by Derrick T @ flickr
Walking on a cobblestone street photo by loop_oh @ flickr
Woman's face in shadow photo by shazwan @ flickr
Bar photo by beerbybart @ flickr
Old man and whiskey photo by graywolfx47 @ flickr (a recovering alcoholic)
Clock photo by ~Duncan~ @ flickr
Fork in shadow photo by (matt) @ flickr
Tree in shadow photo by hapal @ flickr
Friday, December 3, 2010
A Thought poem - Libations Friday 3 Dec 2010
Have you ever thought about the hidden words behind the words spoken out loud?
A Thought
I heard a thought today
spoken with beauty words
and an ugly uncaring heart
it made my heart sink down
and fall with a painful thud
the day traveled on and
then there was a simple man
who spoke his mind and
gave plain words from love
my heart looked up again
Denny Lyon
Copyright 3 Dec 2010
All Rights Reserved
Photo Credits
Clothes hanging on a line photo by mysza831 @ flickr
Heart in a winter sky photo by mysza831 @ flickr
Heart swans photo by mozzercork @ flickr
*** THANKS for visiting, feel welcome to drop a comment or opinion, enjoy bookmarking this post on your favorite social site, a big shout out to awesome current subscribers – and if you are new to this blog, please subscribe in a reader or by email updates!
*** Come by for a visit and check out my other blogs:
*** Check out Holiday Recipes From Dennys Food and Recipes
The Social Poets - news, politics
The Soul Calendar - science, astronomy, psychology
Visual Insights - photos, art, music
Beautiful Illustrated Quotations - spiritual quotes, philosophy
Best Spiritual Posts - my own best as well as links to other spiritual posts from all viewpoints
Poems From A Spiritual Heart - poetry
The Healing Waters - health news
Dennys People Watching - people in the news
Dennys Food and Recipes
Dennys Funny Quotes - humor
A Thought
I heard a thought today
spoken with beauty words
and an ugly uncaring heart
it made my heart sink down
and fall with a painful thud
the day traveled on and
then there was a simple man
who spoke his mind and
gave plain words from love
my heart looked up again
Denny Lyon
Copyright 3 Dec 2010
All Rights Reserved
Photo Credits
Clothes hanging on a line photo by mysza831 @ flickr
Heart in a winter sky photo by mysza831 @ flickr
Heart swans photo by mozzercork @ flickr
*** THANKS for visiting, feel welcome to drop a comment or opinion, enjoy bookmarking this post on your favorite social site, a big shout out to awesome current subscribers – and if you are new to this blog, please subscribe in a reader or by email updates!
*** Come by for a visit and check out my other blogs:
*** Check out Holiday Recipes From Dennys Food and Recipes
The Social Poets - news, politics
The Soul Calendar - science, astronomy, psychology
Visual Insights - photos, art, music
Beautiful Illustrated Quotations - spiritual quotes, philosophy
Best Spiritual Posts - my own best as well as links to other spiritual posts from all viewpoints
Poems From A Spiritual Heart - poetry
The Healing Waters - health news
Dennys People Watching - people in the news
Dennys Food and Recipes
Dennys Funny Quotes - humor
Friday, November 26, 2010
Friday Lite: Best Of Funny TSA Cartoons - 26 Nov 2010
Check out what America is thinking about those TSA Pat Downs supposedly guarding us against terrorism.
From Denny: Ready to laugh? The cartoonists have had a field day with the missteps of our government and especially the TSA public insensitivity promoting their idiot policies. Americans are growing more and more uncomfortable and angry about these policies.
Just this month the Pilots Association declared the airport scanners as unsafe and got exemptions for their pilots and airline crews to completely bypass security checkpoints. Our government leaders also do not have to be subjected to the security protocols either. So now passengers have to wonder a lot more than about the people riding next to them. They have to wonder about whether or not the pilot, the crew and government leaders were compromised by terrorists.
Yeah, and these are the Bozos who are determining our national security. Sweet, huh? What kind of reasoning is this? If the airport scanners are unhealthy and unsafe then no one should be going through them. Meanwhile, the nation's cartoonists are lampooning these idiot decisions and arrogant promotions of this unsafe technology - knowing there is someone is the shadows making wads of cash from the sale of these airport scanners to the government. Big Business continues to run wild, unchecked by any restraints of reason or common sense.
The truth is that the TSA has never succeeded in catching any of the terrorists. Who did? Ordinary citizens keeping their eyes open and their minds thinking. Just to mention a couple of news items: The shoe bomber was stopped by a quick-thinking passenger who foiled the plot - as the airline attendant was still questioning the man while he attempted to strike the bomb. A street vendor in New York City spotted the suspicious van loaded with a bomb in front of Toys 'R' Us store for children and called police. The list goes on.
The TSA policies are literally overkill and violate civil rights and public health. The only tested and proven most effective method of airport security is to get serious about proper profiling like the Israelis employ. They manage to do it without racial profiling. There is no reason we cannot do the same.
France got rid of their backscatter airport scanners because of public outrage and concern over public health. They installed scanners that employ radio waves to detect if anyone needs additional screening. These scanners do not threaten your health nor invade your personal privacy. Why can't America employ these machines instead of the invasive radiating ones?
Check out how the TSA and the airport security checks are quickly becoming part of the national culture for humorists:
TSA touchy feely security screening:
And my all time favorites of the TSA-"Thanks"-giving season:
*** Bozo Sapien Photo by I'm Fantastic @ flickr
*** THANKS for visiting, feel welcome to drop a comment or opinion, enjoy bookmarking this post on your favorite social site, a big shout out to awesome current subscribers – and if you are new to this blog, please subscribe in a reader or by email updates!
*** Come by for a visit and check out my other blogs:
*** Check out Holiday Recipes From Dennys Food and Recipes
The Social Poets - news, politics
The Soul Calendar - science, astronomy, psychology
Visual Insights - photos, art, music
Beautiful Illustrated Quotations - spiritual quotes, philosophy
Best Spiritual Posts - my own best as well as links to other spiritual posts from all viewpoints
Poems From A Spiritual Heart - poetry
The Healing Waters - health news
Dennys People Watching - people in the news
Dennys Food and Recipes
Dennys Funny Quotes - humor
From Denny: Ready to laugh? The cartoonists have had a field day with the missteps of our government and especially the TSA public insensitivity promoting their idiot policies. Americans are growing more and more uncomfortable and angry about these policies.
Just this month the Pilots Association declared the airport scanners as unsafe and got exemptions for their pilots and airline crews to completely bypass security checkpoints. Our government leaders also do not have to be subjected to the security protocols either. So now passengers have to wonder a lot more than about the people riding next to them. They have to wonder about whether or not the pilot, the crew and government leaders were compromised by terrorists.
Yeah, and these are the Bozos who are determining our national security. Sweet, huh? What kind of reasoning is this? If the airport scanners are unhealthy and unsafe then no one should be going through them. Meanwhile, the nation's cartoonists are lampooning these idiot decisions and arrogant promotions of this unsafe technology - knowing there is someone is the shadows making wads of cash from the sale of these airport scanners to the government. Big Business continues to run wild, unchecked by any restraints of reason or common sense.
The truth is that the TSA has never succeeded in catching any of the terrorists. Who did? Ordinary citizens keeping their eyes open and their minds thinking. Just to mention a couple of news items: The shoe bomber was stopped by a quick-thinking passenger who foiled the plot - as the airline attendant was still questioning the man while he attempted to strike the bomb. A street vendor in New York City spotted the suspicious van loaded with a bomb in front of Toys 'R' Us store for children and called police. The list goes on.
The TSA policies are literally overkill and violate civil rights and public health. The only tested and proven most effective method of airport security is to get serious about proper profiling like the Israelis employ. They manage to do it without racial profiling. There is no reason we cannot do the same.
France got rid of their backscatter airport scanners because of public outrage and concern over public health. They installed scanners that employ radio waves to detect if anyone needs additional screening. These scanners do not threaten your health nor invade your personal privacy. Why can't America employ these machines instead of the invasive radiating ones?
Check out how the TSA and the airport security checks are quickly becoming part of the national culture for humorists:
TSA touchy feely security screening:
And my all time favorites of the TSA-"Thanks"-giving season:
*** Bozo Sapien Photo by I'm Fantastic @ flickr
*** THANKS for visiting, feel welcome to drop a comment or opinion, enjoy bookmarking this post on your favorite social site, a big shout out to awesome current subscribers – and if you are new to this blog, please subscribe in a reader or by email updates!
*** Come by for a visit and check out my other blogs:
*** Check out Holiday Recipes From Dennys Food and Recipes
The Social Poets - news, politics
The Soul Calendar - science, astronomy, psychology
Visual Insights - photos, art, music
Beautiful Illustrated Quotations - spiritual quotes, philosophy
Best Spiritual Posts - my own best as well as links to other spiritual posts from all viewpoints
Poems From A Spiritual Heart - poetry
The Healing Waters - health news
Dennys People Watching - people in the news
Dennys Food and Recipes
Dennys Funny Quotes - humor
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