Finley's Latest Poetry on Helium.com

Helium.com is once again doing their monthly contests. The creative writing contest is a twenty title overall leader wins (based on a plus/minus scoring for percentile rankings).

Every poem entered under my name was written specifically for the Helium contest titles. There will be another post following in the next few days. My intention is to enter at least one item in every title. At present I have entered seven poems under seven different titles.

If you don't dig poetry fear not! Six of the contest titles are not poetry. You'll have to come back in a day or two for the rest.

Helium.com poetry contest (end date: July 13th)

(Note: Link titles come from Helium.com contest titles. These poems are otherwise untitiled.)

Poetry: Long and Short

Poetry: Heavy and Light

Poetry: Add and Subtract

Poetry: Clean and Dirty

Poetry: Old and New

Poetry: Empty and Full

Poetry: Good and Evil

"Fight Washington Corruption" MoveOn.org Petition

Pasted below is the email and link to a petition sponsered by MoveOn.org. The purpose of this petition is to influence politicians to overturn the Supreme Court's decision to allow unlimited corporate funds for election campaigns. Check out the link. Read the petition. If you agree, sign it. I don't frequently suggest throwing one's voice in with the crowd. But, I'm sure you will agree that thousands of voices screaming one thing is much more effective than thousands of voices screaming thousands of things.


The E-Mail: Copy and paste the addresses below in your address bar
Subject: Counter corporate control of our democracy
Hi,

I just signed the "Fight Washington Corruption" pledge to get Congress to stand up to corporate influence over our democracy. At the end of the month, a group of people in our district is going to take these signatures to Rep. John Fleming, asking him to sign the pledge too. We need another 416 people to sign to reach our goal by then. You can sign at the link below:

http://pol.moveon.org/pac/sfd/ratify/local/?r_by=21638-7642688-k.hSwlx&rc=paste&district=LA_04

If Rep. John Fleming is not your Representative you can sign a petition to your Representative here:

http://pol.moveon.org/pac/sfd/ratify/local/?r_by=21638-7642688-k.hSwlx&rc=paste

Thanks!

Heading home soon--No more Paris, No more Europe--How sad!

Well, we were unable to catch a library that was open in Paris. So, no blog last week. Last night we arrived in Mons. We missed our 1st class Thalys ride by less than a minute due to bus issues--couldn't find one that ran on a Sunday--had to pay more for a downgrade to 2nd class on a train that wasn't headed to our stop (that one has me floored)!

Today, is a chill day, resting our feet before the dragging of our tired carcasses back through the gazillion U.S. security checks. Fortunately, I don't have to worry about the drug sniffing dogs as we left the contraband in Amsterdam. (That was fun to write).

Mohawk dyke started donning her ballcap as we rolled out of France and into London. By then the purple had really started to fade. I still haven't had the time to mohawk right. I hope all mohawkers will forgive my spike transgressions!

More soon.