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Showing posts with label Charles Frederickson. Show all posts
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Saturday, May 16, 2015

ALL CREATED EQUAL EXCEPT

by Charles Frederickson & Saknarin Chinayote



Rohingya migrants with airdropped food. A boat carrying them and scores of others, including young children, was found floating in Thai waters; passengers said several people had died. Credit Christophe Archambault/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images via NY Times, May 15, 2015


Pitiful bane of subhuman existence
Despised by masses spewing contempt
Rohingya without nationality precarious allegiance
Leaky boats sunken nightmares capsized

No destined port of call
No place to be somebody
Homeless hapless hopeless leper outcasts
Unwelcome turned away nobody cares

Bedraggled bastards barely hanging on
Dysfunctional once upon family angst
Bony ghosts haunted by skeletons
Wronged inhuman rights constantly betrayed

Blind justice labeling terrorized victims
Raped pillaged occupation unanswered queries
Haunted by Islamophobia anti-Moslem bashing
Hateful demons lacking compassionate kindness

Unanchored adrift dead man’s float
Bloated corpses buried at sea
Long-festering festering wound abscessed
Help beyond intensive care horizon


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 

Wednesday, May 13, 2015

PILING ON

by Charles Frederickson & Saknarin Chinayote




Proud heritage pitiful anti-natural disaster
Architectonic rumbling
Daily bread no longer given
Magical dragons entrapped snowbound lairs

Looking down from isolated heights
Precarious existence smothered by ash
Votive lamps churned buttery meltdown
Trackless Sherpa trails left behind

Empty void filled with tenacity
No vacancy guest houses demolished
Children used to nothing strangely
Making do with even less

Thankless volunteers sifting contaminated rubble
Bloodhounds sniffing vital heartbeat signs
Humanitarian relief anonymous god sent
Colorful life savers myriad flavors


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Monday, May 04, 2015

AMEN YEMEN

by Charles Frederickson & Saknarin Chinayote






Editor’s note: Key infrastructure in war-torn Yemen, including water supplies, health services and telecommunications, are on the verge of breaking down due to a major fuel shortage, a United Nations humanitarian official has warned. "The services still available in the country in terms of health, water, food are quickly disappearing because fuel is no longer being brought into the country," Johannes van der Klaauw told AFP news agency on Saturday. "Without fuel hospitals can't work, ambulances can't go out. You can't have the water system working because water has to be pumped. The telecommunication network risks shutting down. "If something is not done in the next few days in terms of bringing fuel and food into the country, Yemen is going to come to a complete stand-still," he warned. —AlJazeera, May 2, 2015



No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 

Wednesday, April 22, 2015

NATURAL ORDER

by Charles Frederickson






Natural order is the way
   Things are without outsider interference
      Mortals yet to learn how
         To coexist in balanced harmony

         Astronomers have discovered that our
      Universe is getting consistently darker
   Star numbers falling lost twinkle
Points of light diminishing returns

Global warming industrial contamination and
   Passive Indifferent negligence adversely effect
      Climate change air clean water
         Quick-change weather conditions increasingly erratic

         Misguided protectionism of unilateral one-sidedness
      Contributes toward disunity violence insecurity
   Making soiled earth a more
Unsafe unjust and uncivilized place

 More merciful kind compassionate tolerant
   World order is urgently needed
      To help save critical condition
         Endangered planet discovering emergency remedies

         Concerned eco-crusaders must embark on
      Mission Possible to ensure that
   Proud pasts lie ahead for
Future generations – all our kids


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 

Tuesday, April 14, 2015

GAZAPPED

by Charles Frederickson




Unemployed Gaza youth unruly majority
Disheartened break out Manifesto declared
Challenging miserable conditions faced everyday
Mental incarceration suffering post-traumatic stress

Fuck Hamas fuck Israel fuck
Fatah fuck UN fuck USA
Dissatisfaction desperation frustration aggression depression
Mission Impossible leading normal lives

Sick of imposed shitty existence
Being jailed for inexcusable offenses
Mentally emotionally tortured by Hamas
Totally ignored by indifferent cowards

We want to scream breaking
Shameful wall of unjust apathy
Shedding sleepless nightmares outraged tears
Overhead F16’s breaking sound barriers

We cannot say what we
Want do what needs doing
Nowhere to run hide escape
Move No shunned hope options

We don’t want to hate
Fear being heavy-hearted victims anymore
We desperately want freedom is
Peace too much to ask


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

POWWOW

by Charles Frederickson & Saknarin Chinayote




My tribe is my life
Personal identity comfortable cozy belonging
Recognition feeling desired wanted needed
Praying respect to magical totems

Born into clan without reservation
Uncivilized savage beast trapped within
Daily battle fighting nasty demons
Peacepipe powwow serene quiet calm

Primitive tribalism addictive conformist cult
Clan network security blanket family
Whatever you call it everybody
Needs one quest for belonging

Medieval Dark Ages unholy crusades
Inquisition wars of conquest extermination
Violent wild passionate rage misplaced
Unencumbered by compassion empathy pity

Clockwork universe surviving by ticks
Secondhand surpassing minute bonfire countdown
Timelessness experienced in counterclockwise regression
Digital era speeding fast-forward pulse

Second nature spirituality beyond cowardly
Massacres raping murders looting barbarism
Slaughter justified in name of
One hypocritical faith or another

Tribal mission recruiting chosen chief
Mesmerixed followers manipulated by cooperation
Not competition rusty sketleton key
Unlocking identity battle owning yourself


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 

Wednesday, March 04, 2015

BIBI BLUSTERS

by Charles Frederickson





I scream for eye cream
Bibi risking US – Israeli relations
On partisan politics dangerously revolting
Insulting Ugly American mental floss

Vainella unilateral Bibi sitter bluster
Insolence impudence impertinence arrogance dance
Butter toasted butt-out pee-can
Stinging cheeky slap in faceoff

While Obama opposed invasion costing
Trillion greenbacks thousands of lives
Creating geopolitical ballyhooed wink debacle
Bibi championed Iraqi Road invasion

Washington DCeit caramel knowledge poisonalities
Cabana Oreo banana Obama split
Cheery cherry Kerry no-go-tiation pits
Caramel kvetch chutzpah Nutty-Yahoo

Imagine Whirled Peace froZEN meltdown
Never too shockolate yo-yogurt
Game of cones no surebert
Why can’t we be friends


Dr. Charles Frederickson has been a regular contributor to The New Verse News since 2006.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

12.2

by Charles Frederickson & Saknarin Chinayote






I do believe in spooks
Invisible to bloodshot barenaked eyeball
Ignorance prejudiced bias accepted dogma
Gut inclination not proof enough

Dybbuk casting creepy-crawly demonic spell
Displaced castoffs drowned at sea
Hopeless strangers in strange land
Unwelcome foreign aliens begrudged handouts

Vulnerable orphans arriving without parents
Lost generation challenge staying alive
Every child matters deserving respectful
Dignity rehab to break out

Homeless adolescents deprived of childhood
Poverty-stricken hungry for kindness recognition
Maybe expectations improbably not self-taught
Learning iffy makeshift life lessons

Leaky drowning pool victims struggling
To stay afloat overburdened lifeguard
Ignoring desperate cries for Help
Choking on own regurgitated vomit

I do believe in ghosts
Making difference for haunted dispossessed
12.2 million Syrian refugees in
Urgent need of Ouija support


http://www.humancaresyria.org/


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 

Friday, February 06, 2015

EXTREMISM

by Charles Frederickson & Saknarin Chinayote




Whose world is it anyway
Borderless planet flooded azure blue
No deity superior to all
Others praying to whichever listens

Unalterable creed makes tenets sacrosanct
Feminine sexuality emancipating driven women
Barbaric uncivil wrongs ignorance barbarism
Detrimental to everything save war

Universe of pure unadulterated hatred
Without knowing or understanding why
Dogma forced down parched throats
No violent intolerant extreme endures

Faceless weak narrow-minded trapdoor
Freedom of speech slammed shut
Censored opinions intent on recreating
World in own perverted image

Medieval mindsets dominating modern crusade
Bent distorted time-bomb warps confusing
Madness with mission malignant stupidity
Uncommon cause War Crimes Inquisition

Our real enemy is fanaticism
Duped by superstitions rumors black-and-blue lies
Imposing domination controlling underlings’ Fate
Stifling creative freedom of expression


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 

Saturday, January 24, 2015

PLUTONIC

by Charles Frederickson & Saknarin Chinayote


A pair of small alien worlds, Ceres and Pluto, move into the spotlight this year as spacecraft arrive at their cosmic shores for the first time. NASA's Dawn spacecraft released its first views of Ceres on Monday, already hinting at previously unknown craters. Still ahead for NASA's New Horizons probe is former planet Pluto, billions of miles from Ceres and the king of a distant, icy realm. Both are dwarf planets, mini-worlds that just don't make the cut as official planets. It's a vast population of worldlets that scientists don't know much about. But if all goes according to plan, that will change starting now. And it's about time the little guys got some attention. --Nadia Drake for National Geographic, January 21, 2015


In square world spherical obliqueness
Dwarf planet Pluto asteroid Ceres
Obscure classic rock ‘n roll giants
Water vapor rising icy volcanism

What lies beneath iron core
Subsurface ponds lakes seas oceans
Flood of data requires validation
Icy outnumbering terrestrial gassy rocky

Pluto’s moons atmosphere bending sunlight
Charon Hydra Nix Styx Kenderos
Pluto twice size of Charon
Unjust travesty stripped of planethood

Largest outer solar system dependent
Reigns slightly ahead of Eris
Orbit so elongated crisscrossing domains
Categorically downgraded blacklisted by ex-spurts

Eight full-fledged planets enduringly survive
Pneumonic spoiled My Very Energetic
Mother Served Us Nine Pizzas
Outcast suffering complex inequality complex

Tipsy topsy-turvy cosmic seesaw consciousness
Science séance predicting what’s next
New Horizon groundbreaking astrogasm discoveries
Mistaken identity Status Quo-Vadis regained


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 

Friday, January 16, 2015

THINK or THWIM

by Charles Frederickson & Saknarin Chinayote




Unprecedented Level of Human Harm to Sea Life Is Forecast --NY Times headline, January 15, 2015


Snow globe shaken up fallout
Flipped upside-down nothing ending up
Where it once was used
To be magic seeping out

Something’s wrong with fickle eco-system
Warming glaciers receding ice caps
Melting coral dying soil eroding
Rainforests decimated endangered species threatened

Drowning global eke-onomy barely staying
Afloat deflated balloon passing gas
Tidal wave capsizing equitable flow
Forecast lacking insight planning foresight

Humanure sustains itself by transforming
Pure nature into rotting garbage
Trash will endure fueling creativity
Worthless refuse consumed outgrown rejected

There’s peaceful glisten in quiet
No crystals alike filling void
More seen less known existence
Trapped sky dome deep-blue sea

Clear diorama transparent dreamy sphere
Uncertain flight free-falling languid wipeout
Own self-revelatory journey unleashed within
Vanishing keepsake memories preserved forever


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 

Saturday, January 03, 2015

SPIFFY SPARES

by Charles Frederickson & Saknarin Chinayote





old year bowled over kingpins
toppled tumbling down automated fresh
start reset kegglers taking aim
guts or gutters clean sweep

no split is too wide
if you’ve got rock ‘n roll
pinhead right spin big balls
striving for progress not perfection

to bowl perchance to dream
re-creation in your spare time
12 strikes and you’re perfect
i bowl therefore i am

bowling alleys are poor guys’
country clubs always a champion
when only one in competition
300 nobody else keeping score



No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 

Saturday, December 20, 2014

CYBERBULLYING HACKTIVISTS

by Charles Frederickson & Saknarin Chinayote




Suspects responsible for recent cyberbullying attacks targeting State College Area School District students were identified Tuesday. Superintendent Bob O’Donnell said more than one person ran a Twitter account called @SCHateTweets, which posted its first tweet Thursday. State College Police Chief Tom King said at least two people set up the account, but neither he nor O’Donnell would confirm that they were students. The account targeted about 50 State High students, Principal Scott DeShong and O’Donnell. The tweets ranged from attacking students’ personalities and appearances to alleging sexual promiscuity and drug use. --(State College, PA) Centre Daily Times, December 16, 2014




cyberbullying faceless gutless soulless cowardice

hiding behind internet smokescreen anonymity

provides abusers pretending they’re tough

actually insecure unhappy social outcasts



malicious rumors taunts vile put-downs

transmitted through email instant messaging

chat room exchanges digital images

sent to victim’s cellular phone



cyberstalking is equal opportunity offender

knowing no geographical socio-cultural bounds

don’t live in shell of

silence tell someone report crime



reportedly over half of adolescents

have been harassed or participated

in cruel denigrating online attacks

inflicting emotional distressful psychological trauma



girls are about twice as

likely as boys to be

cyberbully victims and perpetrators also

more likely to contemplate suicide



people who love themselves won’t

belittle others knowing what’s right

doesn’t mean much unless you

do what’s right – stop cyberbullying!


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 

Friday, December 12, 2014

SOVEREIGNTY

by Charles Frederickson & Saknarin Chinayote





Resounding global support for Palestinians
Demonstrates natural affinity of humankind
Empathetic to populace under siege
Public opinion demanding fair-minded justice

After 47 years of oppression
Self determination enshrined in humanitarianism
De facto military control restrictive prohibitions
Bullyrag abuse of power preconditions

Enough is never enough said
Gaza war senseless assault grim
Reaper bloody reminder 2000 dead
Conflict resolution no negotiable solution

Ending occupation oppression persecution devastation
Requires return to 1967-designated borders
West Bank Gaza East Jerusalem
2-state side-by-side civil coexistence

Stumbling block issues borderline security
Water rights religious site access
Palestinian refugees’ right of return
Jewish settlement expansion termed illegal

Aim just lasting comprehensive peace
Pseudo agreement hypocritical pyrrhic victory
Where everybody loses nobody wins
Israel more isolated than ever


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 

Wednesday, November 19, 2014

REBEL RECRUITS

by Charles Frederickson & Saknarin Chinayote




Vulnerable youth conceived in poverty
Prime target uncivil war combatants
Desperate underage struggle too easily
Manipulated brainwashed drugged forced submission

Hungry for attention affection acceptance
Needing sense of belonging diversion
Exploited as sex slaves spies
Human shields cooks pregnant wives

Unwanted offspring rescued from abortion
        To be sacrificial misbegotten martyrs
Both innocent victims guilty perpetrators
Carrying out barbaric violent acts

Indoctrinated to commit atrocities without
Flinching first kill your family
Relatives neighbors never to return
Crybabies humiliated emotional outburst taboo

Conditioned response demonstrating fearless bravado
Nevertheless dying as helpless kids
Uneducated unable undone unanswered prayers
Resurrected displaced lives forever stigmatized

Our global eradication goal to
Eliminate poverty provide educational options
From evolution to unforgettable revolution
Restoring former child’s damaged psyche


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 

Friday, November 07, 2014

WOEFUL MISERY

by Charles Frederickson & Saknarin Chinayote




Amnesty International published a report early Wednesday accusing Israel of war crimes in its 50-day war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip this summer, saying its military showed “callous indifference” to civilians in airstrikes on homes that felled entire families. NY Times, November 4, 2014


Global sympathies aroused supporting disheartened
Palestinians constantly suffering imposed indignities
Humiliated confused cheated cursed outraged
Only recourse uncivil wronged rights

Born into unfortunate misbegotten circumstance
In-denial bias prejudice intolerance narrow-mindedness
Everything old is new again
Long deserving own sovereign homeland

There are more than fifty
Israel laws that discriminate against
Palestinian citizens of Israel including
Land access education criminal procedures

Nakba Catastrophe Palestine’s native inhabitants
Were turned into stateless refugees
Second class non-citizens driven out
Apartheid however you label it

Profound inequality enforcing conspiracy laws
Series of walls military checkpoints
Separating displaced refugees West Bank
Gaza Strip Golan Heights families

Twisted armlock crying Uncle Sam
Ungrateful one time too many
Lobbyists playing politricks mistreated threats
Unsettled grievances claiming tsouris heartburn


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 

Wednesday, October 29, 2014

UNCIVILIZED WORLD

by Charles Frederickson and Saknarin Chinayote




Global aim should be to
Keep civilization from destroying itself
Overcoming white man’s notion he’s
Less savage than other creatures

Overdeveloped egotistical rich becoming richer
Hapless helpless poor becoming poorer
All species not treated equally
Myopic justice failing colorblind test

Books hardcover carriers of civilization
Extolling knowledge wisdom freethinking mindsets
Outlandish insight progressive aesthetic sensibility
Trusted friends companions tutors mentors

Say Yes aiding unnatural tempests
Floods earthquakes volcanoes tsunamis tornadoes
Rejecting all forms of violence
Tolerating eccentricities respecting dignified uniqueness

War is brutal inhumane blood-letting
Say No to out-of-control handguns
Lethal weapons of mass destruction
Poisonous gases nuclear biological arsenals

Peace as essential to existence
As polluted air we breathe
Friendly persuasion agreeing to disagree
Preserving ethical moral aesthetic values


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson and Mr. Saknarin Chinayote proudly present YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 .

Sunday, October 12, 2014

WRONGED RIGHTS

by Charles Frederickson






Pakistani teenager and Indian activist
Awarded 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
Chosen for horrendous struggle against
Oppression of vulnerable young people

A Hindu and a Muslim
An Indian and a Pakistani
Join in common cause denied
Educational rights imposed by extremists

In 2014 Malala Yousafzai was
Shot in the head by
Taliban right to schooling
Denied to strong-hearted weaker sex

Kailash Satyarthi follower of Gandhi’s
Tender mercy non-confrontational approach
Kashmir caught between nuclear powerhouses
Borderline youth deprived of childhood

Child bonded labor exploitation for
Financial gain bribery slavery trafficking
Cheapest employer option parental poverty
Illiteracy ignorance lame cop-out excuses

In conflict-ridden areas refugees raped
Violated leading to hapless continuation
Generation-to-generation suppression for daring protest
Censored Expression definitely not free


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson  proudly presents YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 .

Wednesday, October 08, 2014

UNAMERICAN CON

by Charles Frederickson




All four of my grandparents
Were born in Sweden great-grandfather
Member of Svenska parliament Midnight
Sun legislators making heritage proud

Declared intention to recognize Palestinian
Statehood long overdue illegal settlements
Extending far beyond green line
Contrary to genuine peaceful desire

Netanyahu slams Sweden’s unilateral steps
Contrarian going against universalistic values
Ambrose Bierce defined un-American as
Wicked intolerable Heathen Garrison Keillor

Opined I think the most
Un-American thing you can say
Is You can’t say that
Burt Lancaster dared to ask

Can anything be more un-American
Than the House un-American Committee
Fred Swedish for peaceful harmony
Shalom Salaam pax on you

Islam isn’t the major problem
Combating hateful violence is
Shared principles justice compassion tolerance
Require respectful dignity without exception


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson  proudly presents YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 . 

Sunday, September 21, 2014

POLLUTED LEGACY

by Charles Frederickson




Dysfunctional planet implosive uncivil warmongers
Warped minds bent on self-destruction
Obsessive-compulsive hateful fears carefully taught
Lessons learned today tomorrow’s legacies

Wild nature everything we’re struggling
To tame greedy excess abuses
Gaining reverence for natural world
Existence all forms of life

Eco-systems being destroyed used up
Lacerating soiled Earth begging mercy
Gouging riches stripping life-preserver dermis
Poisoning pure air water foodstuff

Outliving your life making difference
Create own legacy caring for
Others indelibly etched into brainwaves
Carved onto hearts not tombstones

Joyous cherished moments shared memories
Doing something positively original inspiring
Next generation’s unique extraordinary perspectives
Unimaginable next interconnected digital level

Cultivating tolerant multiversity conservation no
Longer luxury option survival imperative
Running out of natural resources
Now running out of time


No Holds Bard Dr. Charles Frederickson  proudly presents YouTube mini-movies @ YouTube – CharlesThai1 .