Gaslighting

 https://villaday.wordpress.com/2012/03/28/impact-when-forgiveness-is-exploited/

For the last three years, I have been observing attitudes, listening to opinions and reading blogs/comments about perpetrators and their victims.

When did some Christians (of all denominations) reduce themselves to being rape apologists and protectors of rapist/pedophile’s sentiments?

When did the private and personal healing balm of forgiveness come to be used as a weapon of inducing guilt in the victim, an instrument of silencing the victim?

“He that is without sin, cast the first stone” is being used indiscriminately, over the Internet, to silence the uproar against such crimes.

Random quotes from The Bible are being bandied about, which not being in context, have resulted in negative imagery of Jesus and have made Him the butt of ridicule.

The poem that follows, comes from deep within my being, (and while not being about you or me) speaks up for the voiceless victims the world over, past, present and future.  

What Could It Possibly Fetch

WHAT COULD IT POSSIBLY FETCH?

For Freedom Of Speech

FOR FREEDOM OF SPEECH

Context: Charlie Hebedo Massacre

CREATIVE

A poem is the Poet's sole Intellectual Property and each poem is poet's means of communicating a thought. Avoid 'interpreting' a poem because, interpreting is the act of super-imposing your thoughts over the message being conveyed by the poet. 

I don't agree with the first 2 lines of the 4th verse of the poem. I don't know why I even wrote them. 

... Jacqui 

Introducing The Cat Chronicles

INTRODUCING : THE CAT CHRONICLES

No Winners

NO BOUNDARIES! WHAT BOUNDARIES?

Understanding It, As What It Is For

UNDERSTANDING

Compliance

COMPLIANCE

The Day It All Started 27.04.1941

27th APRIL 1941

The Kiss

THE KISS

Despair To Hope

HOPE IN THE TIME OF DESPAIR

I Am Woman

I AM WOMAN!

It's Not She Who Is The Offender

CONTROL

And Another Year Is Over

And Another Year Is Over

Friends And Friendship

FRIENDS ... FRIENDSHIP

Just Man - Imperfect

AN ANNIVERSARY TRIBUTE - 10th SEPTEMBER 2014

To The Teacher

Unfortunately, this poem, written and posted in 2014, is relevant to the atmosphere in North American Universities today.

To The Teacher

64th Birth Anniversary - RGP

R. I. P. Geoff - Still Remembered, Still Missed

Sibling Relationships Such As These

About dysfunctional & atypical sibling relationships :  

Tinta - First Birthday As A Nani

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PLEASANT MEMORIES

You bring music,

You bring humour,

Make cheerful, a normal day,

So on your first birthday as 'Nani'

While reminiscing, I say ....

All those songs you ever sang,

The stories that you told,

Unforgettable treasures,

On each one I was sold.

The Carnival Is Over

Devoted To You

Puppet On A String

To the tune you sure were true.

And that 'Emmer' story,

Could have sworn that, that was true,

And 'The Rosary Will Turn Into A Snake If You Twirl It'

Boy! what memories I have of you!

May your birthday be the happiest!

And your joys grow through the year!

May your cherished dreams turn into reality!

Happy Birthday Tinta!

An Actual Phobia

An Actual PHOBIA

Objectifying

OBJECTIFICATION

Gone from this World ... Never From The Hearts That Love You

R. I. P. Irene Louise Marcedo 

11th December 1920 - 27th June 2003

Gone from this World ... Never From The Hearts That Love You

Not A One-Off Event

PERSPECTIVES

Fidelity

FIDELITY TO CANDOR 

Free Will

FREE WILL

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There was this post doing the rounds on Facebook, in which a man murders his wife in front of their daughter. The post goes on to claim that ‘Jesus’ was by the little girl’s side re-assuring her.  To the query, ‘Why doesn’t ‘Jesus’ prevent the murder from taking place?’ the reply was, “God does not interfere in man’s Free Will.”

Free Will!

Whose does prevail?

When in opposition

For whom, tips the scale?

 Does the ‘survival of the fittest’

To ‘Free Will’ too apply?

And if the ‘stronger’ desires the ‘weaker one’s’ death

Will the ‘weaker’, ‘have to’ die?

 Then how can it be called ‘Free Will’

For here there is no choice

Just imposition of another’s ‘Will’

On one with no or feeble voice!

 Am I then to understand,

To derive from this debate,

‘Free Will’ is to enable the stronger

To seal the weaker one’s fate?

Jacqui

Surrendered Responsibility

SURRENDERED RESPONSIBILITY

The Power Of Suggestion

THE POWER OF SUGGESTION

Save Civilization

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SAVE CIVILIZATION

You Are A Winner

YOU ARE A WINNER

Fence Sitters, Pseudo Fence Sitters

FENCE SITTERS 

INSPIRED BY A CHAPTER FROM A BOOK BY SHIV KHERA - YOU CAN WIN. 

Thank you Mr. Khera.

BE AWARE ... BE SAFE 

Ethics of convenience,

Vacillating values,

No courage of conviction,

Conformist attitudes,

See the ‘hunting with the hound’,

And the ‘running with the hare’

Of being a fence-sitter,

A person to beware.

More dangerous, however

Than the fence-sitter could ever be

Are the pseudo fence-sitters

Who excel in duplicity

Who camouflage true agenda

With contrived disinterest

While pulling the rug underfoot

Of the one who’s in distress.

A pseudo fence-sitter

What are the recognizable traits?

Inconsistent in impartiality

Empathy towards winning stakes

Ferments misconception

Insincere in nurturing accord

With the ethics of convenience

And no courage to boast off.

                                       JACQUI

When Libel They Set Out To Spin

WHEN LIBEL THEY SET OUT TO SPIN

You Win Some, And Some You Lose

YOU WIN SOME AND SOME YOU LOSE

The Menaced To Defend

THE MENACED TO DEFEND

When The Victim Was Made The Accused

ON THAT DAY

Oh Good Lord! Humanity!

OH GOOD LORD, HUMANITY!

Courage Of Conviction

COURAGE OF CONVICTION

The Importance Of Self

IMPORTANCE OF THE SELF

The One In The Dock Has Honour

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In case it slipped your notice, I'm being sarcastic, very, very sarcastic. And though I've referenced just 3 'honourables', this poem can be applied to many, many more.

THE ONE IN THE DOCK HAS HONOUR

It's Hard To Believe That You Are Not Here

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ROBERT GEOFFREY PAUL

Just Out Of Curiosity

JUST OUT OF CURIOSITY

How It Should Be

HOW IT SHOULD BE

A Convenient Scapegoat

TAINTED CREDIBILITY?

The Gift Of Eloquence

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THE GIFT OF ELOQUENCE

Use of the gift of eloquence,

To awareness activate,

To bring to light, to acquaint,

The concealed to elucidate,

     Has triggered dismay in the select,

     With covert exploits on the mind,

     Raising demands to desist,

     Unmasking of deeds unkind,

With the threat that refusal to conform,

Would result in "Raising Cain',

In snub, in calumny, scorn and slight 

For going against the grain.

Networking

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NETWORKING

Computer Studies

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COMPUTER STUDIES IN SCHOOL

Counting Blessings

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COUNTING MY BLESSINGS

A Twisted Mind, A Twisted Tongue

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SIFTING

A Statement Of Intent

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A THANK YOU NOTE

Who's To Blame

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BLAME? WHO'S TO BLAME?

A sarcastic take on the ridiculous and reprehensible reasons given for rape occurring.