We live in a Society of Blame; the Republicans, the Tea Party, the evil rich, and the evil corporations. Corporations provide jobs for Americans, and yes, the CEO’s make an insane amount of money. Why no crying over the outrageous amounts of money brought in by the Hollywood elite and athletes? Class warfare from our government and liberal elite? It’s not any certain party’s fault, they’re all to blame for being fiscally irresponsible, and not using common sense! Instead of making…

I have a concern that I would like to share with the fellow-members of this site.

I am a grandmother who assists my daughter (who is also a member at Big Dawg) in home-schooling her children. My other daughter (I have 4 adult sons and 2 adult daughters) is a Franciscan sister who is the principal of a Catholic school. The concern that I am sharing in this post comes from my deep relationship with these two women, and their devotion to the formation and educating of children in the…

Article first published as Movie Review: Mental - As in the Slang Term for “Crazy†on Blogcritics.

The latest from movie maker P.J. Hogan is a directing tour de force, with some excellent acting from an impressive,…

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"Never Did" by R. Gibbs

Cabagehead and Turtle were sitting on the beach

One was in the middle, the other out of reach

When up trotted a maiden, who spied them and she said

"The truth is in the nevermore, locked in Carroll's head."

The Turtle answered "Sweetie, Hear me now, I beg.

Stand looking pretty. Show some cleavage and leg

We are speaking gentlemen, see our cigars and pants

We know all of wonderments, reason, happenstance."

The maiden smiled…

B L A D E S  O F  T R E E S

© 1997 R. Gibbs



Silent, said my Spirit

To what thoughts my flesh thinks

Let us never speak

For your thoughts saddens me

Mute thy reflections

Let not my old soul be as a wandering ghost

In a world where other friendly ghosts wait

But never again to connect!

To be cut by the Blades Of Trees



Rejoice, said my Flesh

And remember the young girl's winks

Let us never sink

So dust of time darkens our…

Maddness

© 1997 R. Gibbs

Should that which I have done was done well

Then wouldest thou see me

Harken fast, lend thy whole self to tarry as if it were thy own thought

Before one can trammel up the consequence

And rest thee thou own mind with lies and deception

I am not as you now witness

But was once an iron and steel

Kicking in the very Gates to Hell

And daring the very worst of the…

I Have Dreamt In Dreams

 © 1997 Rich Gibbs II

Ah! Spirit. You have arrived. If my tongue will allow such expressions of grief and joy to mingle in one mouth! Sing, all of you who know and understand! Do not peer upon me now with mangled eye and troubled brow, Gathered Friends, for I will not hear of it! Put away the dirge drums and the weeping fife and sit together all and rejoice, for I am of good heart, even as I am gone before your eyes! The grief once par with my…

To a DEAR Friend…

© 2013 Rich Gibbs II

In heaven, lo, the angels beamed

And one allowed the purest feather from the delicate wing

Of a Paradise Dove to float earthward to land

Softly on the brow of a newly birthed baby girl.

She moved and snuggled in and a smile more precious

Than all the treasures of earth

Warmed the heart and spirit of the child’s parents

To this very day that same…

Disseminated Collection of me…

© 1997 Rich Gibbs II

A Frantic Tranquility

Late into the night I ponder

Let my imagination wander

To such things as Dragon’s teeth and…

 In Conversation (With Idiots Abounding)

Stand thee back and clean the winds

For fraudulence thou breath is tainted

Sours and heats like the dragon you follow

My own prayers in the air!

I know this for I have eyes wide open

My senses are not dulled as your own

I am not walking in my sleep

Following shadows and villains

In fear of fellow chattel’s denunciation!

Reason is not some émigré towards me

For I am…

We are two lovers in a broken world suffering its own broken heart. In order for us to be made whole again, we must each be free to be who we are. If…

Rush Limbaugh caught my ear the other day when he referred to a new book by Os Guinness entitled …

I just uploaded a new song that I have written. It is about a young soldier-

Spc. Ethan J. Martin was killed in action on August 7th, 2012 in Koragay, Afghanistan. He was assigned to 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Regiment, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska. While in country he was attached to 3 Charlie Company.

Ethan came home to his family here in Bonners Ferry, Idaho on August 17th, 2012. He came home with…

I’ve always thought of myself as a spiritual being having a physical experience, rather than the other way around. However you see and experience…

Occupy Unmasked, as many of you know, is a film by Stephen K. Bannon and Andrew Breitbart. The first thing I have to say about the film is that it made me physically nauseous. The second is that you need to watch it. You need to understand how much the Left hates us and you need to understand that they are only concerned with tearing us down. They do NOT have a solution or an alternative to our system or beliefs. 

In the words of Alinsky, they are a movement controlled by…