We turn our eyes from their #evil – v2 #Putin #Russia #warcrimes

So many atrocities, so much pain,
too many to number, to fathom,
their pain, this story, this truth,
again and again, too much…
 
We turn our eyes from their evil,
not wanting to become involved,
feeling we are impotent, unable,
to help, to do anything in this time…
 
We are too easily distracted, unfocused,
too easy to turn away, to be passive,
to switch the channel, to scroll away,
putting our heads in the sand...
 
We must cry out, “Enough!”
This madness must end,
crying for the people,
“Russia cannot win!”
 

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Edited February 18, 2024

We turn our eyes from their evil – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/we-turn-our-eyes-from-their-evil-v2.html

Edited February 11, 2024
We turn our eyes from their evil
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/we-turn-our-eyes-from-their-evil.html
February 10, 2024
Turning our eyes from their evil
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/turning-our-eyes-from-their-evil.html
Responding to Twitter post
February 10, 2024
by Lexa lrnt
(link)
“Can someone explain how does one move on with their
Saturday after reading that Russians burned alive an
entire family in Kharkiv last night?
How do they read about it, shrug, and continue existing,
without giving a single fuck?
How can people still be passive at this point?”
And posts by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1756301685226369353
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1756301900335419599
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com) for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com Poetry Where You Live.
 
 
Poetry, America, Stand with Ukraine, Zaluzhny, Zelensky, prisoners, Mariupol, Bucha, Ukraine, Russia, Slava Ukraini, victory, Tucker Carlson, Kharkiv, Слава Україні!, POTUS, VP,
 
#America, Stand with #Ukraine, with #Zaluzhny, @ZelenskyyUa, with freed #prisoners of #Mariupol, with the dead of #Bucha, of #Kharkiv. @HouseGOP support #Ukraine today. #ArmUkraineNow #SlavaUkraini #Victory #Ukraine @NATO Слава Україні! @POTUS @VP
 
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Putin is a War Criminal, Ukraine, victory, prisoners, Slava Ukraini, Russia, Bucha, Zaluzhny, America, Слава Україні!, Zelensky, Tucker Carlson, Kharkiv, Mariupol, poetry,
 
 

We must cry out, “Enough!” #Ukraine #Russia #HouseGOP

So many atrocities, so much pain,
too many to number, to fathom,
again and again, too much…
 
We are Too easily distracted, we turn away,
we switch the channel, we scroll away,
putting our heads in the sand...
 
We turn our eyes from their evil,
we feel impotent, powerless, unable,
to help, to do anything in this time…
 
We must cry out, “Enough!”
“This madness must end!”
We cry with the People,
“Russia cannot win!”
 
-----------------
edited February 14, 2024

We must cry out, "Enough!"

edited February 11, 2024
We turn our eyes from their evil
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/we-turn-our-eyes-from-their-evil.html
February 10, 2024
Turning our eyes from their evil
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/turning-our-eyes-from-their-evil.html
Responding to Twitter post
February 10, 2024
by Lexa lrnt
(link)
“Can someone explain how does one move on with their
Saturday after reading that Russians burned alive an
entire family in Kharkiv last night?
How do they read about it, shrug, and continue existing,
without giving a single fuck?
How can people still be passive at this point?”
And posts by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1756301685226369353
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1756301900335419599
 
All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com  Poetry Where You Live.
 
Poetry, America, Stand with Ukraine, Zaluzhny, Zelensky, prisoners, Mariupol, Bucha, Ukraine, Russia, Arm Ukraine Now, Slava Ukraini, victory, POTUS, F16, Russia is a Terrors State, Putin is a War Criminal, Tucker Carlson, Kharkiv, Слава Україні!,
 
#America, Stand with #Ukraine, with #GeneralZaluzhny, with @ZelenskyyUa, with freed #prisoners of #Mariupol. @HouseGOP, vote to support #Ukraine now. #ArmUkraineNow #SlavaUkraini #Victory #Ukraine @POTUS send #F16. #RussiaIsATerroristState #PutinIsaWarCriminal Слава Україні!
 
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Putin is a War Criminal, Ukraine, victory, prisoners, Slava Ukraini, Russia, Bucha, Zaluzhny, America, Слава Україні!, Zelensky, Tucker Carlson, Kharkiv, Mariupol, poetry,
 
 

We turn our eyes from their #evil #Russia #Ukraine #SlavaUkraini

So many atrocities, so much pain,
too many to number, to fathom,
again and again, too much…
 
We turn our eyes from their evil,
feeling we are impotent, unable,
to help, to do anything in this time…
 
Too easily distracted, to turn away,
to switch the channel, to scroll away,
putting our heads in the sand...
 
We must cry out, “Enough!”
This madness must end,
crying for the people,
“Russia cannot win!”

-----------------

edited February 11, 2024

We turn our eyes from their evil

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/we-turn-our-eyes-from-their-evil.html

February 10, 2024
Turning our eyes from their evil
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/turning-our-eyes-from-their-evil.html
Responding to Twitter post
February 10, 2024
by Lexa lrnt
(link)
“Can someone explain how does one move on with their
Saturday after reading that Russians burned alive an
entire family in Kharkiv last night?
How do they read about it, shrug, and continue existing,
without giving a single fuck?
How can people still be passive at this point?”
And posts by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1756301685226369353
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1756301900335419599
  

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com  Poetry Where You Live.

Poetry, America, Stand with Ukraine, Zaluzhny, Zelensky, prisoners, Mariupol, Bucha, Ukraine, Russia, Arm Ukraine Now, Slava Ukraini, victory, Russia is a Terrorist State, Putin is a War Criminal, Tucker Carlson, Kharkiv, Слава Україні!,
 
#America, Stand with #Ukraine, with #Zaluzhny, @ZelenskyyUa, with freed #prisoners of #Mariupol, with the dead of #Bucha, of #Kharkiv. @SenateGOP support #Ukraine today. #ArmUkraineNow #SlavaUkraini #Victory #Ukraine @NATO #RussiaIsATerroristState #PutinIsaWarCriminal Слава Україні!
 
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Putin is a War Criminal, Ukraine, victory, prisoners, Slava Ukraini, Russia, Bucha, Zaluzhny, America, Слава Україні!, Zelensky, Tucker Carlson, Kharkiv, Mariupol, poetry,
 

Turning our eyes from their evil #Ukraine #Russia #Kharkiv #Bucha #Mariupol

So many atrocities, so much pain,
Too many to number, to fathom,
Again and again, too much,
Turning our eyes from their evil,
Feeling we are impotent, unable,
To help, to do anything in this time…
 
Too easily distracted, to turn away,
To switch the channel, to scroll away,
Putting our heads in the sand, too much,
Not speaking out, crying out, “Enough!”;
This madness must end, crying for the people,
The Terrorists, Russia cannot win!

-----------------
February 10, 2024

Turning our eyes from their evil
https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2024/02/turning-our-eyes-from-their-evil.html
Responding to Twitter post

February 10, 2024
https://twitter.com/lexa_lrnt/status/1756240229847941411
“Can someone explain how does one move on with their
Saturday after reading that Russians burned alive an
entire family in Kharkiv last night?
How do they read about it, shrug, and continue existing,
without giving a single fuck?
How can people still be passive at this point?”
And posts by President Volodymyr Zelenskyy
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1756301685226369353
https://twitter.com/ZelenskyyUa/status/1756301900335419599
 
 
Poetry, America, Stand with Ukraine, Zaluzhny, Zelensky, prisoners, Mariupol, Bucha, Ukraine, Russia, Arm Ukraine Now, Slava Ukraini, victory, POTUS, F16, Russia is a Terrors State, Putin is a War Criminal, Tucker Carlson, Kharkiv, Слава Україні!,
 
#America, Stand with #Ukraine, with #GeneralZaluzhny, with @ZelenskyyUa, with freed #prisoners of #Mariupol. @HouseGOP, vote to support #Ukraine now. #ArmUkraineNow #SlavaUkraini #Victory #Ukraine @POTUS send #F16. #RussiaIsATerroristState #PutinIsaWarCriminal Слава Україні!

You don't have to touch the darkness

You don't have to touch the darkness, every day,
for it to be virulent, growing,
seeds cast into rich soil,
a forest, a movement, an army.
 
You don't have to touch the darkness, fully,
to evocate the triggering language,
the path, the words remembered
by the followers, his minions.
 
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May 18, 2022

You don’t have to touch the darkness

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/you-dont-have-to-touch-darkness.html

May 18, 2022 Twitter post by Scott MacFarlane

with link to his Guardian newspaper article

https://twitter.com/SethMacFarlane/status/1526979188879609856

about Fox News, Tucker Carlson and Great Replacement Theory

&

May 16, 2022

A moment of crisis

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/a-moment-of-crisis.html

May 16, 2022

stop feeding hate

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/stop-feeding-hate.html

&

May 12, 2022

The cancer rises to the top

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-cancer-rises-to-top.html

subpoenas for House Republican leaders by the January 6^th Committee

&

edited June 10, 2021

Charge him with Sedition – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/charge-him-with-sedition-v2.html

June 10, 2021

Charge him with Sedition

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/charge-him-with-sedition.html

&

edited July 15, 2021

When Democrats are sitting in prison

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/when-democrats-are-sitting-in-prison.html

July 13, 2021

When the Democrats are sitting in their prison cells

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/when-democrats-are-sitting-in-their.html

&

July 12, 2021

Too much is at stake

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/too-much-is-at-stake.html

&

edited July 12, 2021

Releasing the Kraken, the Lies – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/releasing-kraken-lies-v2.html

July 12, 2021

Releasing the Kraken, the Lies

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/releasing-kraken-lies.html

&

July 11, 2021

Giving Oxygen to the Terror

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/giving-oxygen-to-terror.html

Fox News interviewing Donald Trump,

who called for the name of the police officer

who shot Ashli Babbitt

&

edited/new name July 6, 2021

The Terror will only get louder

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/the-terror-will-only-get-louder.html

edited July 6, 2021

They are just getting started – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/they-are-just-getting-started-v2.html

July 6, 2021

They are just getting started

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/they-are-just-getting-started.html

edited July 5, 2021

Where are the Insurrectionists Plotting – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/where-are-insurrectionists-plotting-v2.html

edited July 5, 2021

What are the Insurrectionists Doing – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/what-are-insurrectionists-doing-v2.html

July 5, 2021

Where are the Insurrectionist Plotting

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/where-are-iinsurrectionists-plotting.html

July 5, 2021

What are the Insurrectionists Doing

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/what-are-insurrectionists-doing.html

edited July 4, 2021

an idea, a dream – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/an-idea-dream-v2.html

July 4, 2021

an idea, a dream

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/an-idea-dream.html

July 4, 2021 Twitter post

https://twitter.com/RevJJackson/status/1411680299872837635

by The Reverend Jesse Jackson, Sr.

about slavery and subjugation of native people

at the time of the Declaration of Independence

&

Smithsonian article:

A Nation's Story:”What to the Slave is the Fourth of July?

https://nmaahc.si.edu/blog-post/nations-story-%E2%80%9Cwhat-slave-fourth-july%E2%80%9D

Frederick Douglass speech 7/4/1852

"The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro"

https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2927t.html

&

edited July 4, 2021

We must fight for the dream, the idea of America – v4

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/we-must-fight-for-dream-idea-of-america_4.html

edited July 3, 2021

We must fight for the dream, the idea of America – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/we-must-fight-for-dream-idea-of-america_3.html

edited July 3, 2021

We must fight for the dream, the idea of America – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/07/we-must-fight-for-dream-idea-of-america.html

June 29, 2021

We must fight for the dream, the idea of America

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-must-fight-for-dream-idea-of-america.html

June 29, 2021

We must fight for this country

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-must-fight-for-this-country.html

June 29, 2021

We must not despair, we must not be despondent

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-must-not-despair-we-must-not-be.html

June 29, 2021

We can have hope – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-can-have-hope-2.html

edited June 29, 2021

The threat is real – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-threat-is-real-v2.html

edited June 28, 2021

We are under attack – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-are-under-attack-v2.html

June 28, 2021

We are under attack

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-are-under-attack.html

edited June 28, 2021

Repeating the Big Lie – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/repeating-big-lie-v2.html

June 28, 2021

Repeating the Big Lie

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/repeating-big-lie.html

June 28, 2021

The threat is real

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-threat-is-real.html

edited/ new name June 28, 2021

The Lie is pernicious, divisive

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-lie-is-pernicious-divisive.html

June 28, 2021

The Lie is pernicious

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-lie-is-pernicious.html

merged/ edited June 27, 2021

The Insurrection never stopped – v4

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/the-insurrection-never-stopped-v4.html

edited/new name June 27, 2021

We are still under attack

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-are-still-under-attack.html

June 25, 2021

We remain under attack

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/we-remain-under-attack.html

&

edited June 10, 2021

Charge him with Sedition – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/charge-him-with-sedition-v2.html

June 10, 2021

Charge him with Sedition

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/06/charge-him-with-sedition.html

&

Edited May 30, 2021

The Insurrection never stopped – v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-insurrection-never-stopped-v3.html

Edited May 29, 2021

The Insurrection never stopped – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-insurrection-never-stopped-v2.html

edited/new name May 29, 2021

The Insurrection never stopped

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-insurrection-never-stopped.html

edited May 28, 2021

The Insurrection continues – v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-insurrection-continues-v2.html

adding stanza 2

May 28, 2021

The Insurrection continues

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/insurrection-continues.html

May 28, 2021

Minority Rule

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/minority-rule.html

edited May 28, 2021

The Filibuster - v3

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-filibuster-v3.html

edited May 27, 2021

The Filibuster - v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-filibuster-v2.html

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1398055841593446403

May 27, 2021

The Filibuster

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-filibuster.html

my reply to Dan Rather

https://twitter.com/raymondafoss/status/1398014947683078147

Dan Rather response to Senator Manchin

https://twitter.com/DanRather/status/1398000381897150484

Tweet by Senator Joe Manchin

https://twitter.com/Sen_JoeManchin/status/1397911553836474369

Connecticut Compromise, Great Compromise

House, Senate, representation

&

February 13, 2021

the faithful brownshirts

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/the-faithful-brownshirts.html

February 7, 2021

as darkness fell on the Capitol

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/darkness-fell-on-capitol-in-broad.html

edited February 3, 2021

For the sake of Democracy - v2

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/for-sake-of-democracy-v2.html

February 1, 2021

For the sake of Democracy

https://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2021/02/for-sake-of-democracy.html

 

 

All of my poems, photographs, and videos are copyrighted by Raymond A. Foss, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. All rights are reserved. Contact me at Ray Foss (raymondafoss@gmail.com)  for usage. See all 53,000+ of my poems at www.raymondafoss.blogspot.com  Poetry Where You Live.

 

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poetry, House, Senate, compromise, GOP, minority, majority, McConnell, democracy, insurrection, filibuster, obstruction,

 

#poetry #filibuster #obstruction #House #Senate #compromise #GOP #minority #majority #McConnell #democracy #insurrection

 

poem, poetry, democracy, America, United States, trials, impeachment, arrest, Capitol riots, insurrection, sedition, incitement, justice, unity, comity, bipartisanship,

 

#poem #poetry #democracy #America #UnitedStates #trials #impeachment #arrest #CapitolRiots #insurrection #sedition #incitement #justice #unity #comity #bipartisanship #election #lies #power

 

#ImpeachmentTrial #poem #poetry @LeaderMcConnell @SenateGOP #democracy #CapitolRiot #insurrection #History #trial

 

 

poem, poetry, democracy, America, United States, justice, July 4th, 4th of July, Independence Day, freedom, life, liberty, pursuit of happiness,

 

#poetry #democracy #America #life #liberty #pursuitofhappiness #IndependenceDay #July4th #July4 #DeclarationofIndependence

 

poem, poetry, democracy, America, United States, Capitol riots, insurrection, sedition, incitement, justice, Fox News,

 

#poetry #democracy #America #CapitolRiots #insurrection #sedition #incitement #justice #election #lies #power #conspiracy #FoxNews

 

poem, poetry, democracy, America, United States, Capitol riot, insurrection, sedition, incitement, justice, Fox News, Lin Wood, Sidney Powell, Kraken,

 

#poetry #democracy #America #CapitolRiot #insurrection #sedition #incitement #justice #election #lies #Trump #conspiracy #FoxNews #Powell #Wood #Kraken

 

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poetry, crime, sedition, insurrection, capitol riot, conspiracy, democracy, Trump, constitution, law, treason,

 

#poetry #crime #sedition #insurrection #capitolriot #conspiracy #democracy #Trump #constitution #law #treason #ChargeTrumpNow

 

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poetry, January 6^th, January 6^th Committee, insurrection, sedition, subpoena,

 

#poetry #January6th #January6thCommittee #insurrection #Sedition #subpoena

 

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poetry, Buffalo Massacre, BLM, white supremacy, racism, hate, terrorism,

 

#poetry #BuffaloMassacre #blm #whitesupremacy #racism #hate #terrorism

 

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poetry, Tucker Carlson, Great Replacement Theory, racism, white supremacy, hate, terrorism, Buffalo Massacre, Fox News, Scott MacFarlane,

 

#poetry #TuckerCarlson #GreatReplacementTheory #racism #whitesupremacy #hate #terrorism #BuffaloMassacre #FoxNews #ScottMacFarlane