Shadow Tropics

Aloha poets,

     Cool morning shadow wall inspires today's poetry. Enjoy!

Tirelessly Release

Heartened households reach new banner levels

Questionable station speaks to broad obstacles

Once a thought turns it's less than even that

Wild ride descends so hold onto your hat

Money drifts between households and a bank

Government, investors wave a hearty thanks

Consumer sentiment index in the sediments

Swamps of bigger news slides and cements

Cash pile out of reach for all to cling

Investment put-off gives growth a sting

America tax worldwide against the spread

Password timeout drift children from the red

Flashy turnarounds ever trying their debunk

Central bank think tank thought and thunk

Buy treasury notes, bond to drive up prices

Hoping interest rates will take their slices

To spur a consumer to spend at will

Or business investments to stir the till

Interest rates down, consumers spend?

Jittery banks hold on to dollar and yen

Pilgrim program still this America of ours

Authoritarian capitalists signal distant stars

Liu Xiaobo, the metaphor of what's to come

Nobel v Confucius Peace Prize v dumb-dumb

And what about smurfberries' purchasing power?

Are we all to just tap on a purchase button every hour?

Virtual tokens of takers may promise a wine and a honey

Can't read? don't understand? tirelessly release your money 

copyright 12.11.10

patrick d.adams

all rights reserved

Green Tropics

Aloha poets,

     Green tropics morning inspires today's poetry. Enjoy!

On Ignored Honored

Freedom rings in the face of a bully

Authoritarian capitalism's only a pulley

In feats of its ploy democracy cries out

American president, Liu Xiaobo a shout

Jailers join in the power of alliance

Bailers coin on showers of defiance

Dissidents and presidents know the real

Adhoc roadblocks spin spies with spiel

Get together in the quiet feels real good

Tethered to a riot squeals under the hood

Freedom v tyranny's best offer a no show

Universe hears Xiaobo's freedom oboe

Prison for freedom, the ultimate paradox

Beyond garbage bins a clock tick tocks 

Ignored honored stay religious eligible

Oppressors press as if old vegetable

Remarkable embarks on journey's edge

Rot of jail tries to keep hearts on a ledge

A face to face at a dissident's insistence

Human race fear keeps its own distance

Courage thriving's an individual thing

In broad culture lives hide, then sing

Oppressor odyssey holds a jailer's key

America still far, the land of the free

Relatives wait at the surrogate gate

Physical dropbys roped off by hate

Press ahead ceremony for Liu Xiaobo

Oppressor loathes Liu's freedom oboe

copyright 12.8.10

patrick d.adams

all rights reserved

Blue Hawaii Pumpkin Hues

Aloha poets,

     Colors of halloween pumpkins and blue water splashes in Hawaii
halloween season inspire today's poem. Enjoy!


The Collective


Alien alternative energy emerges with its slow deepening calm
Algorithms submerge to conquer, worlds ask,"what's wrong?"
"Unintended" is the watchword taken to within Nth degrees
Free press defended by china elders the horizon says it sees


Advertising has its strengths, in our hearts we know the truth
Nobel Peace Prize's  Liu Xiaobo, for unborn chinese youth
Business as usual, The Collective holds the world at bay
State-run news Xinhua small thoughts try to hold sway


Celebrities gather to exude simple freedoms of speech
Central Propaganda depersonalizes within an elite reach
"New phase of opening up," can regimes ever be a "party?"
It's our own pumpkin chronicles that's kept America hearty


Comedy, change Standing Committee's no laughing matter
Starts with freedom of the press, then debate with a chatter
Add entertainment to your screen without algorithm spatter
Entrepreneur moves in environment where freedom's fatter


Everybody does their group's will when career is full throttle
Too intellectual? go to china prison or countryside with a bottle
Mutual suspicions bounce around, and can cause the inadvertent
Mobile thoughts emerging from The Collective's minority elite tent


copyright 10.20.10
patrick d.adams
all rights reserved