War Prose Poetry Poems

I was from a poor rural county in Iowa
The kind that drafts young men during wars
Back in the late sixties many of our men went...

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"Those who cannot remember the past
are condemned to repeat it"
George Santayana.

The American Revolutionary War was
The 13 colonies' war for independence.
Their beliefs and resolve were so
greatly...

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You have been missed- Elena Mihalachi 

It's been a while since you've been here.

By a desired whisper on a sea floor, pencils are being used...

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  How many Gazan women have Israelis raped
  How many Gazan hostages is Israel holding
  How many Gazan babies has Israel burned...

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What are the modern names of the nations of both the Edomites and the Ismaelites?
The modern nation of both the Moabites and the Ammonities is...

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La da di lay
La da di la 

Nothing is real,
isn’t that nice?

La da di day
La da di night

Everything breaks,
but it burns so bright-

and when I...

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mercury and sunshine
will see you walking around sunset 
thought you are the ghost 
which 
come to frighten up the children 
how on earth do ghost...

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My ten-year-old granddaughter is a cartoonist like me.
We were comparing notes, when I asked if she writes too.
Yes I do write! She told me. Her...

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Shaking to its core, the cries go unheard across a nation.

Eyes and ears are glued to a screen,
that can only translate the pain we cannot...

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Zionist
for Israel, but
I don't invest,
in WAR...
I'm a pacifist...
For Arab 
as for any other people
being legalistic
without exclusivist predilection...
for peaceful solution
no arms race
calm conversation
harmonious division
brotherhood in view
without...

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Hello. I was born after the Civil War and met my fate after much civil unrest. You may have never encountered me, but some things...

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Pain squizzes life out of my paralyzed mind and it feels like a grain of sugar under attack from ants.
Induring comes with an ocean of...

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Gaslight me, baby.

I don't want to hear the truth. Tell me you love me. Say you need me. Promise you'll never leave me. Convince me...

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The pontiff and I

Finally, the pope left, I saw him leave in a helicopter, dressed
in fetching white, his bishops wore black dresses with red stripes...

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children of World War two soldiers were patients
spending hour after hour in the polio ward of a hospital
a truly caring nurse invented a board game...

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