Author: Sabba Rabba

I’m more than concerned by the way things are moving
Republicans still are quagmired in delusion
Young Democrats not lining up behind Biden
On seeing the news they behave as though blinded

With contrast so stark between their candidates
It should be a no-brainer what choice they should make
Don Trump, having been served quadruple indictments
Related to fraud and obstruction incitement’s

Compared to Joe Biden, who, these last three years,
Has done more for us and this world, fraught with fears,
Than presidents prior since Roosevelt’s time
It just doesn’t reason. It just doesn’t rhyme

We know, should Trump win, or get in using force,
He would unleash his vengeance, no care, no remorse
He would be a dictator who’ll seek retribution
Whereby his past enemies face persecution

What, then, should we do? I mean me. I mean you
It’s not time for reluctance; fear friends you might lose
Talk to friends; talk to family. Join Vote Forward. Volunteer
Make this high priority of things you hold dear

If you’re of a mind to help broadcast the word
Feel free, then, to forward this. You have my word

1/10/2024

Year two-oh-two-four really what will you be?
A year of good cheer and of world harmony?
A year of advancement in civilization
With climate change-measures throughout every nation?
Alas, what I’m visioning won’t come to pass
Not this year nor next year nor years hence, alas
Our nation’s in turmoil, political mess
Just how things will turn out is anyone’s guess
Will our bold democracy, where we are free
And justice is just, still continue to be?
Or will Trump prevail bidding for leadership
And do as he’s said, form a dictatorship
So two-four and twenty it’s all in your hands
We aware can become or keep heads in the sand
We can vote to maintain what’s been our way of life
Or allow Trump to win, with the ensuing strife

11/30/2023

The fourteenth amendment, of it section three
Might keep Trump from running for Prexy again
Since he swore an oath pledging his loyalty
To our Constitution, but broken since then

In a real insurrection was Trump thus engaged?
Yes he did; yes he was
In a violent rebellion did Trump play a role?
Yes he did; yes he has
Then amendment fourteen , plainly in section three
It’s implied Trump as Prexy can no longer be

That conclusion was reached by the state’s Court Supreme
Of the state, Colorado, momentous it seems
Now ‘twill go to highest of courts in our land
To decide constitutionally where they stand

I see this as a test whether this court can side
With applying the law, politics put aside

12/19/2023

• Liz
  
  Liz Cheney, Republican, far to the right
  Her view-points political way out of sight
  On most every issue substantial we face
  Her stated positions I just can’t embrace
  
  However, her feelings concerning D. Trump,
  Who’s hell bent for President out on the stump,
  That under no circumstance should he get in
  Which Trump full intends whether looses or wins
  
  Her book, Oath and Honor, came out recently
  It details how Congressmen, all GOP,
  Abetted Trump’s efforts to stay, though he lost
  And recounts the damage, the spectrum of costs
  
  Her writing is frank, punches she doesn’t pull
  Her insights are deep, she is nobody’s fool
  Her goal in this writing’s to wake up the nation
  That Trump as lead candidate’s no aberration
  
  That if he’s elected, democracy dies
  He’ll be a dictator, which he’ll not disguise
  He as our President’s truly unfit
  Her book says it all, I learned much reading it
  
  12/6/2023

Yes, IT can happen here, it can!
Yes, yes a full dictatorship
With people jailed for disagreeing
People killed for demonstrating
Jews and blacks dismissed from government
The military wielded by the President
Against all movements counter to his actions
Those who oppose him, he considers vermin
He’d be the great exterminator
All this and more as President, does Trump intend
It’s what he has announced

And, yes, yes, he intends to be
Next President no matter what
No matter whether win or lose
A year from now. It will be close
The way it looks, he could well win
But if he doesn’t, he’ll still try
To gain it by some other means
With MAGA sycophants in full support

So wake up democrats, attention pay!
We can’t let Trump see victory that day!

11/13/2023

Now Natanyahu’s got to go
In case you didn’t, now you know
That PM Bibi is the worst
Since great Ben-Gurion, PM first
So, why, then, do I say all this?
I’ll tell you why. I’ll make a list.

One – you know he was indicted
Bribes and fraud were what was cited

Two – is Bibi’s coalition
Too far right is their position

Three – their vote to nullify
Court independence, justice dies
It met with massive demonstrations
leaving a divided nation

Four – is Bibi’s full disdain
For independent Palestine
Ensuring that they’d never gain,
He gave the Hamas full, free reign

And Five – perhaps the reason most
Egregious of the ones I post
That he allowed security
Of Israel so lax to be
That Hamas could invade, run free
Whole squads of murderers they sent
To kill and torture citizens
Twelve hundred plus now in their graves
Two forty captured to their caves
A never ending war in sight
The Gazan death toll out of sight
Israeli soldiers, hundreds killed
And Gazan streets with rubble filled

All these plus more, Israeli’s know
That Natanyahu’s got to go!

11/9/2023

The hue and cry heard ‘round the world
Is stop the bombing! Cease your fire!
That Israel need heed these words
What human decency requires

The lives of innocents are snuffed
Both young and old a thousand fold
Supplies, they cannot get enough
They’re hurt and starving, truth be told

Let’s say that Israel agrees –
Cease Fire – Hamas agrees as well
And money pours from over seas
To rebuild Gaza, time will tell

Hamas’s tunnels would remain
And all their infrastructure too
Hamas, its strength it would regain
Be ready so that they could do

What they have done each time before
They violate the cease-fire pact
And fire missiles by the score
Provoking Israel to act

But this last time it was much worse
They breached the Gaza border fence
I can’t relate within my verse
Atrocities committed thence

It’s idiots who do repeat
What hasn’t worked before for them
Again to witness their defeat
And never figure what’s to blame

A cease-fire really will not work
When squarely dealing with Hamas
We know they’ll never keep their word
More missiles they would then amass

So where’s the hue and where’s the cry
Against Hamas, the terrorists
Who’s caused the Gazans thus to die
Who, of their deaths, could not care less

It’s they who could make this war end
Give back the hostages they stole
“That they want peace”; that message send
“Kill Israel!” Give up that goal!

10/31/2023

Israeli troops are chafing at the bit
All eager, angry, ready for the fight
Deployed with Gaza looming in its sight
Awaiting for the count-down clock to hit
Time zero, time to launch their main attack
Destroy Hamas completely, every man
And try to bring those who were captured back
Ensure Hamas at no time ever can
Again wreak havoc, such atrocities
And terrorize Israeli fields and towns
A price they’ll pay for their monstrosities
Defeat so bad they’ll never live it down

But wait. Let’s say Israelis see success
Although it took them many bloody days
So many thousand dead, it’s hard to guess
Including hostages but some were saved
What happens then where no one’s left to rule?
The Palestinians left leaderless
The West Bank and the Gazans hate all Jews
Who’ve killed them. Stole their land. T’would be a mess
And Bibi’s Cabinet, religious right
Their goal: to occupy the West Bank too
So they oppose a two-state compromise
They are opposed to Palestine self rule

Tom Friedman comments in the New York Times
Suggesting there’s a better path ahead
For Israel, their present path unwise
Too many of their soldiers will be dead
And they’d be vilified in world press
For every Palestinian that’s killed
The army’s goal, they should forthright express,
Is ‘free the hostages. Their hope fulfilled
Dislodge Hamas control of Gaza Strip
And kill their leaders all, whom they must find
Combine the West Bank and the Gaza Strip
To finally form the State of Palestine

10/23/2023

Thomas Friedman, wise man of the Times
Referring to Hamas’s rape of Israel
Why now, he asks; and why so barbarously?
What does Hamas expect to happen next
And out of that, what then might be their goals?

He, Friedman, then points out negotiations
That have been underway between the Saudis
And Israel to normalize relations there between
Success would be anathema to Hamas
They cannot let it happen at all costs

Hamas has likely trained for many months
And planned this operation secretly
Their troops were told to do atrocities
To force overreaction in response
To force Israel to launch a full invasion
With Palestinians dying by the thousands
So Saudis can’t make peace with Israel

10/11/2024

At dawn’s early light, they’d been dancing all night
‘Twas the Dance Festival at some Ashkelon site
When the shooting began, dancers shouted and ran
But the bullets were faster, killing women and men
Hamas terrorists, disciplined and in order
Somehow they had breached an unbreachable border
Meanwhile by the thousands their missiles rained down
Overloading Iron Dome, leveling Israel’s towns
Hamas firing squads house-to-house wreaking damage
They killed all within after taking some hostage
Many hundreds now dead, many hundreds more dying
The Israelis were taken off guard, no denying
Israeli Intelligence, best in the world
Failed to foretell these actions; epithets have been hurled

It’s the end of day three; Israel’s borders secure
The dead now a thousand; six hundred dead Gazans
PM Natanyahu declared all out war
Called up the reserves with his anger still blazing
He will seal Gaza tight, nothing in nothing out
He will take down Hamas, leaving no one there standing
Terrorizing Hamas, leaving little to doubt

But what of the hostages ransom demanding?
One fifty or more; Bibi stopped in his tracks
Can’t invade, can’t seal tight; no solution in sight
Can’t ignore the one fifty. Israel can’t turn its back
But Hamas has committed such atrocities
Can’t let them continue to exist, running free
They must be demolished, no longer to be

But what of the hostages, keeping them safe?
There is only one way to protect all their fates
‘Though highly unpalatable, it’s negotiate
Solomonic dilemma, whether talk or invade

The way things look now, it will be to invade

10/10/2023