A New Year Poem _ new poetry

A New Year Poem

From sunset to sunrise 

From midnight to noon

From coast to coast

Low to high tide

It will be the New Year soon

For this New Year

Let’s make the most

Of our best selves

W/out any fear

And the best of health 

What is wealth 

W/out health 

Put it in perspective 

Go & live

#PoetMe 

written 6 a.m. Dec. 31st

John Conte 

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Holding Up _ new poem December 2018

Fingers Point 

Fingers flick

Fingers snap

And click

Fingers bend 

Fingering a neck 

Trying to find

A pulse 

D A G

Sea 

Of green

This isn’t 

The end 

When I’m feeling

Down

I got someone 

She points me up

D A G

Sea of green

This isn’t 

The end 

This isn’t 

The end 

This isn’t 

The end 

I’m holding

Up

Written Saturday Morning December 15, 2018

John Conte

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What We're Made Of _ new poem November 2018

As grains of sands are upturned and crash 

Along the shores a cyclic tide recedes & goes

As rain falls all over me all over us and stuff 

The revolution of wheels hitting highway 

In front of me spraying windshield wiping away

I’m feeling honored to be an everyday poet

Working with people everyday to write poetry 

Life is so fragile and we are filling in the details 

What we picture in our minds here in our time 

I’m fully aware and with intent to light the way

Help document who we are as a leave behind 

So one day family, friends and strangers see

Our lantern light when all is dark along the path 

November 2018

John Conte

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The President’s Son _ New October Poem 2018

Fish scales 

In between the 

Cobble stone streets 

They’ve been

Scaling fish there

For many years

At Faneuil Hall

People meet

A camera 

Only gets the feet

Of the President’s son

He’s taking a meeting

With friends on ethics 

Don & Kimberly not Eric

A Town Car stops me

Asks me to join them

Apparently they

Like my poetry 

My mother she 

Gives a speech

She’s unimpressed 

She’s saying

It’s no big deal

Important men

Come and go

Speaking of

Her husband’s death

She tells them

His father 

Had staying power 

Late in the hour

It’s time for a drink

I was gonna take a swim

But they want me 

To join them 

Through the door

Walks Mr. Mick

I would’ve preferred 

Keith but Mick

Is cool to meet

So you like my poetry 

We drink and we eat

We talk about songs

We really get a long 

Kimberly

Wants to get it on

I feel her bare feet 

Under the table 

On my leg

She feels how able

Like Anais Nin

And Wallace Fowlie

He told me 

About women

Who enjoy

Testing a

Man’s virility 

Oh Jesus

Have I fallen

Or is this 

The new reality 

So I said 

Excuse me

Can you 

Pass the salad 

Please 

Mick smokes a joint

And to me he points 

Rather gallantly 

He’s a poet

I guess I show it

Telling stories 

About the old canal

From Pittsburgh to

Beaver to Lake Erie

Fish scales

They shine like 

Silver teeth

Of old women

Sitting in a circle 

Peeling fruit

For canning

In mason jars

The old women

They’re the stars 

It’s getting late

I need more sleep

I go alone 

Headed towards 

Home 

The night takes it

Easy on me

Nights ghosts

They like my poetry 

October 10, 2018

John Conte

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Factual Evidence Why Mueller Isn’t on a Warrantless WitchHunt

Factual Evidence Why Mueller Isn't on a Warrantless WitchHunt 

Mueller's principles

In 2004, while Attorney General John Ashcroft was in the hospital, President George W. Bush authorized the warrantless interception of domestic communications over the objections of the Justice Department. Standing on principle, Mueller, along with Deputy Attorney General James Comey, threatened to resign if the program's legal issues were not addressed.

Bush altered the program and Mueller continued on as FBI director. Mueller reportedly said about it: "There are days that go by, but not many, that you're not balancing national security against civil liberties."

Mueller threatened to resign again in 2006 after the FBI seized the records of Congressman William Jefferson, who was involved in a corruption scandal. Under intense congressional pressure, President Bush ordered the FBI to return the papers. Mueller resisted with a threat of resignation, again on principle – the FBI had seized the records with a valid judge-issued warrant. Bush relented, and Mueller stayed on as FBI director.

https://election2016.psu.edu/2017/05/22/muellers-threats-to-resign-reveal-his-character/

Good wishes,

John

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John

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Whispers _ New September 2018 Poem

"Whispers"

There are whispers in shot of our ears

We tune in to try and cut out the static

Is it we want to hear

Do we really have it

Everyone’s trying to confirm 

It spreads as does a Microsoft worm

Everybody is compromised 

Drunk on gossip

Whispers in our ears

Tell us what we want to hear

The only one who knows has a blank stare 

Observing lips moving from a glass

Ash tray up to his eyes like a giant lens

Feeling as if he’s staring at a fish bowl

They don’t know he knows

They think he’s dumb 

He’s the only one though 

He doesn’t need to whisper 

His pulse is a voodoo drum

September 24, 2018

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"Named Roses" _ New Poem August 2018

“Named Roses”

If I didn’t know before

I realize now

This is what I live for 

Tell me how 

You see I realize 

It’s moments 

With these roses

And sun

That are reflected 

In my eyes 

And that’s why

People have fun

With me 

I’m enchanted 

With the word be

Beauty 

Captured 

By

Poetry 

Copyright 2018

John Conte

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TheNewEverydayMedia.com

Such a Snake _ New August Poem 2018

Late one afternoon 

It turned out to be a stick

Her heart was going zoom-zoom

It was dark black and thick

It made her inner thighs quake 

Me I had myself a little laugh

She was so afraid it was a snake

Then I picked it up for a staff 

Monday Morning August 6, 2018

John Conte

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Dissections 

He had an easy smile

Despite all the muscles it took to make it 

Compared to the muscles of a big arm

Like memories of home down a moonlight mile

He had an easy smile & didn’t have to fake it 

Sharing trials & tribulations he also had charm

Mother Nature is superior to machined motion

Nerves, muscles + a good brain show emotion

Sunday Morning August 5, 2018

John Conte

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Leonardo Da Vinci _ New July Poem 2018

His open hands reflected color into his eyes 

He realized this and threw them up to the sky

A sky blue sky and thousands of green leaves

Some shimmering with hues of golden sun 

It leaves you feeling something special inside

As you look up at blue sky and brilliant light

Seeing the flow of green leaves in the breeze

Stretching out in movement like a giant banner 

The money would be useful from rich patrons 

He did what inspired him with unusual fancy

He ran from her portrait rather than paint her 

Painting instead the Virgin Mother and Jesus

Earth adorned by angels with hair so curly

Filled with emotion knowing Jesus will save us

Morning July 22, 2018

John Conte mystrawhat.com

One Eye Jax _ new June 2018 poem

A bullet grazed 

My buddy

On the top 

Of his head

Right here 

On this hill top

Old One Eye Jax

Had his gun ablaze 

He wanted him dead

And tried for a few days

Until his plans were stopped 

By a sudden heart attack

It was too much for Jax

Who never paid him back

I guess he wasn’t gonna die

For winning Jax’s eye

Playing Ace’s High

Here’s where Jax 

Tried to shoot you

Up on Coal Hill

With a view 

But you wouldn’t die 

On top of green grass 

Under June blue sky

Now here’s where 

One Eye Jax done lie 

Written at 3 a.m. June 15, 2018

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"Needed" _ New June Poem

“Needed” 

Chords roam my mind

Like constellations in the sky

Sharp notes 

Bright stars

Flat notes

Cloudy moon

Atmospheric elements 

Which alter our mood

Translated through music

Grouping notes in harmony 

Grouping words for poetry 

Music & poetry here’s our song

It doesn’t matter if it’s short or long

Create it, say it, play it, share it

So the gift doesn’t go away

Being who we are everyday 

5:09 am Saturday June 2, 2018

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#Omnipotent _ New June 2018 Poem

#Omnipotent 

Everything on and of this Earth shares a similar fate. 

Our processes for living are very similar if not exact in many cases. 

The way we exist. 

The way we exist at all. 

Birth, breathing, feeding, being, breeding, existing, dying. 

There are so many patterns to recognize

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Moral Turpitude _ New June 2018 Poem

Question from South Western, PA 

Via @KasieDC for @GOP 

Dear DC, in SW PA parlor rooms

A question does loom

Is there a race to act like a buffoon?

It’s now June

And we assume

You know there’s much more work

To Do instead of running on

Being the world’s biggest jerk?!

Charge, Moral Turpitude 

TheNewEverydayMedia.com

Sunday’s Thoughts

Sunday's Thoughts

Early morning
I saw a fawn
Eating leaves
Walking the dog
I saw a rabbit
Eating green lawn
I caught a ribbon
Of sunlight from dawn
And pulled it through
From my past to now
What have I become
A poet of the people
Giving voices to those
Who are forgotten ones
Some see useless flesh
Where I see a beautiful rose
I'm just being me
They are everyday heroes
I'm telling their stories
Mindful of history
Intently listening
Giving life to their words
I'm a poet making poetry
From unlikely sources
It's become motor memory
Mixing with new ideas
Galloping in perfection
As do wild horses

Written Sunday Morning
May 20, 2018
John Conte
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Good wishes,
John

“Heart” _ NewMediaArt

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John

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Dealing With the Darkness_ New April 2018 Poem

Dealing With the Darkness

It's easy to get sucked up & in

It's easy to forget how to win

Against the deep gravity of hate

A black stone in your throat you ate

It's so easy for fraud to be pulling you down

As a stooge you sing their song

They saw you coming around 

And you're so prideful you took the bait

And in your heart are seeds of hate 

A master weaver sows and plows along 

While your negativity doesn't pull you through 

The opposite of dark called light to the rescue 

It's more than Ying & Yang needed to save you 

Stop the verses that are cursing your victims 

Your attitude towards life is more than just sins

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4/4/18

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John

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A One Term President _ Stormy March 2018 _ New Media Art

It’s still Lent

And we observe 

At the Friday fish fry

It were the words

We so plainly heard

And We could see

After all these years on TV

People get to say to the liar

Mr. President

You’re fired!

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Tee Shirts Are Being Made:

@realDonaldTrump @POTUS 

You’re Fired! 2020

“Flashing There” — New Poem March 2018

"Flashing There"

Crossing the street

Pedestrians and strangers 

People having purposes

Stacked beer kegs

The delivery truck unloads 

Walking into sunrise 

On a cobblestone road 

A pigeon's wings flap

The sound explodes 

In my consciousness 

Everything lost is now known 

Stopping to write a poem

Tracing where the bird has flown

Like a worm through the hole

These words are now shown

Pulling thread filling the gap

These moments as fast as a flash 

I'm not using a capo

Unless I want what's new to be old

Someone's story that has been told

When it's we who have really grown

Into something built to last 

In the corner the evidence moans

Give it an hour to be exposed 

In the darkroom taken with a flash

Oh there it is now again what a memory 

March 10, 2018 10am

Market Square

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John

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“Porn Star President” _ New Poem _ March 2018

"Porn Star President"

Porn Stars

Tweet storms

Tariffs & deficits

Pundits employed to predict

@WhiteHouse lessons 

@realDonaldTrump + @jeffsessions 

#HopeHicks and Russia questions 

What's a big deal anymore 

Evangelicals are new reborn devils 

Bullets with bad intent for guns

@tedcruz lyin' to Texuns

March 7, 2018

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John

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Little White Lies _ New Poem February 2018

Little white lies

Is like holding

Little green nuggets 

We're allowed to be high

In D.C.

We in the Government 

Are the molding 

Of perfect little spies

We're the Government 

We can take a scolding 

On Capitol Hill

Then tell the public 

After we've scrubbed it

Swallow your little pill

You'll find the view 

Is good for you

You don't believe me

We're on Air Force One

Have a seat 

Look into my eyes i'll

Make sure you have fun

It'll come clean

If you believe 

In little white lies 

We tell them all the time 

February 28, 2018

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John

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