Sunday 31 May 2015

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.  


Sunday 24 May 2015

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 

Friday 5 September 2014

To The Teacher

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

Thursday 14 August 2014

Sunday 3 August 2014

Tinta - First Birthday As A Nani

There are over 250 poems on my blog. Do read them.

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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!

Thursday 26 June 2014

Thursday 29 May 2014

Fidelity

Free Will

FREE WILL

(There are over 250 poems on my blog. Do read them.

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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

Friday 23 May 2014

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



Thursday 22 May 2014

When Libel They Set Out To Spin

You Win Some, And Some You Lose

The Menaced To Defend

When The Victim Was Made The Accused

Oh Good Lord! Humanity!

Courage Of Conviction

The Importance Of 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.



It's Hard To Believe That You Are Not Here

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Just Out Of Curiosity

How It Should Be

A Convenient Scapegoat

The Gift Of Eloquence

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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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Computer Studies

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COMPUTER STUDIES IN SCHOOL



Counting Blessings

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COUNTING MY BLESSINGS


Wednesday 21 May 2014

Tuesday 20 May 2014

Sunday 18 May 2014

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.