Category Archives: JUSTICE

CONSEQUENCES AND OUTCOMES, DANGER, DOWN DOWN DOWN, DRUNKENNESS, EMPTINESS, JUSTICE, WOMEN

Ladies who play with fire must remember that smoke gets in their eyes.” Mae West

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Blind Justice

Old Auntie

spits of conversation
splatter against brown brick
urban squalor
she shambles
slowly past song
into dementia
a bottle curved fondly
into clawed arthritic shape
wasted and spare
as autumn passing
a winter’s sentence
in a bare concrete cell

I heard you screech
slurred defiance back at smug
colonial control
meet conspiracy with non-cooperation
a glaring silence eloquent
with protest
but still they took you
heart country life and mind
all gone now

she shuffles watches
liquid-memory images dissolve
in the bottom of emptiness

©Jennifer A Martiniello

Old Auntie was published in the ASA Journal (1997).

http://www.kemarrearts.com.au/port_poetrysj.htm

 

BLAME GAME, FELLOWSHIP, FORGIVENESS, HEART, JUSTICE, LOVED ONES, MERCY, MISTAKES, RELATIONSHIPS WITH OTHER PEOPLE

“Fellowship is a place of grace, where mistakes aren’t rubbed in but rubbed out. Fellowship happens when mercy wins over justice.

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Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth am I Here for?

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“In a word, live together in the forgiveness of your sins, for without it no human fellowship, least of all a marriage, can survive. Don’t insist on your rights, don’t blame each other, don’t judge or condemn each other, don’t find fault with each other, but accept each other as you are, and forgive each other every day from the bottom of your hearts…”

Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison