Sister

For Maysoon Zayid:

Sister of the great divide

Let’s cross the Jordan

Efface Juden-Jihadist tattoos

Mend mortar in2 mirth

so children swing 

high above history.

Tweeted:  Thursday, January 8, 2012 at 6:23 pm CST

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Editor’s Note

Somewhere I misplaced 2011!

Due to personal, hurricanes and health issues, an entire year escaped without my contributing one poem to either my @Poetweetry Twitter feed or this Poetweetry blog!  

That embarrassing fact alone warrants a couple of poems, forthcoming. Promise!

My 2012 resolution demands I discard my creative doldrums, shake my tokhes and write!

I published several poems on Twitter in 2010 which I failed to post here. Catch up becomes first priority. And, current events inspired several upcoming new poems. 

I apologize for my indolence and thank you for your continued patient following. I can and will do better.

NEW BEGINNINGS:

As a symbol of new beginnings in my blog and for the New Year, I want to dedicate my first poem of 2012 to a new friend, Maysoon Zayid.

 A comedian, political pundit, philanthropist, cat lover and destroyer of barriers — physical and emotional — Maysoon fights against prejudice based on religion, disability, politics and gender — the four strikes (Islam, cerebral palsy, liberal, female) against her. Add to the fact that she is a regular contributor to the lightening rod “Countdown with Keith Olbermann” on Current TV as well as ardent Palestinian seeking a peaceful, inclusive and rightful home for her people, she too often becomes the target of hateful comments. She attempts to handle all with courage, humor and desire for understanding.

Her charity Maysoon’s Kids provides scholarships to the only main-stream school for Palestinian children with disabilities.  Her organization also provides playgrounds designed for special needs youth there.  

While we’ve only “met” via her “Countdown” and UTube appearances as well as daily Twitter conversations, I’ve come to feel we are “sisters” despite differing religions and minor geo-political conflicting ideas. Maysoon’s life and work exemplify that comedy and humanity should know no borders. I look forward to meeting her during her upcoming comedy tour.

Please enjoy my new poem “Sisters” for Maysoon and all my ideological sisters, coming up next. 

Shalom and Assalamu alaikum

Audrey S. Rivers, Poetweetry

Nobody Told Me There’d Be Math!

Nothin’ adds up.

Answers appear in Arabic.

Can’t reckon “y.”

Variables multiply.

Deductions for naught

& a rat in the house ate my homework

Tweeted on Monday, December 20, 2010 at 6:53 pm

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December

Bastard Time

Suck roses’ radiance

bend proud arthritic oaks

snap my bitter bones

Go extort UR Faustian compact

as December returns

too soon

Tweeted on Sunday, December 19, 2010

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Wildfire

Fire tempers & bows steel

Chars forests w/Stygian genesis

Hearth’s comfort

Hell’s ferment

while H2O anoints innocents

melts the wicked

Tweeted on Thursday, December 2, 2010 at 12:30 am

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Tea Party

Lemon or honey

Steep or dunk

Sip in china

or slurp from mugs.

Once a genteel, social repast,

now we scald each other

with tea

Tweeted on Thursday, September 16, 2010 at 8:44 pm

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Little Yappy Dogs

They make up in chutzpah what they lack in space

these cretins of the canine race

obnoxious as day is long

toy dogs

w/ complexes Napoleon

Tweeted on July 31, 2010 at 2:34 p.m.

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Reunion

Spare me banalities

of bald jocks,

prom queen’s cancer

rich geeks, suicides

All & nothing mends

Old photos con

My name tag reads Anonymous

Tweeted on July 29, 2010 at 5:34 p.m.

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Hair

Short covets long

lusts bob

Strait perms

frizzy irons

Brunettes tint

Bleached blondes

Purple matrons

Skinhead dudes

Bald clutch Rogaine

Tweeted on July 24, 2010 at 4:27 p.m.

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Sad Poems

For Barbara F.:

Contentment requires no poem

Joy abides

But Sorrow cowers numb in Soul’s darkness

culled only by loneliness

& the gloom of midnight ink

Tweeted July 24, 2010 at 4:26 p.m.

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