Silent One Poet Monorhyme

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Humanity Keeps Bleeding

“Only the dead have seen the end of war.”
Plato

Politicians keep lying
Hate keeps breeding
Jets keep firing
Babies keep dying
Mothers keep crying
Homes keep tumbling
Hope keeps crumbling
Time keeps ticking
Injustice keeps screaming
Funerals keep delaying 
Peacemakers keep meeting
Media keeps shocking
Propaganda keeps faking
Tanks keep bombing
Earth keeps shaking
Fear keeps spreading
Soldiers keep fighting
Widows keep weeping
Sorrows keep growing
Babies keep dying
Mothers keep crying
Tears keep flowing
Hunger keeps increasing
Journalists keep reporting
Poets keep writing
Music keeps playing
Teachers keep teaching
Clergymen keep praying 
Preachers keep preaching
Protestors keep protesting 
Faith keeps searching
Peace keeps fading
Ignorance keeps showing
Missiles keep shooting
Humanity keeps bleeding
World keeps sleeping
Babies keep dying
Mothers keep crying

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Jerry T Curtis December 28, 2023 at 5:07 AM Congratulation on the placement of this piece. Things do look dim, but faith and love with prevail, if we do not weaken. Stand strong, keep writing my friend.

Regina Elliott December 27, 2023 at 5:37 PM Congratulations, Silent One, on such a profound and starkly and tragically truthful poem. A fine representative top 100 poem. I pray the sad events of the poem will finally cease. ~

Dean Wood December 27, 2023 at 2:54 PM Congratulations SO on a very moving and timely poem.

Barbara Barry-Nishanian December 27, 2023 at 2:13 PM Monorhyme is new to me. Living in the last days, you expressed how bad it is, and so sad to know will only get worse, Why? Because the love of the many has grown cold. Congrats on a poem of greatness.

Gail Debole December 27, 2023 at 12:14 PM War is a pattern that needs to be broken...but as you state, "Music keeps playing, Teachers keep teaching, etc." Maybe someday the positive will outweigh the negative to the point that the negative cannot grow. There's always hope. Congrats to you for being at the top of the 100 Best New Poems list!

Mv Venkataraman December 22, 2023 at 7:44 AM An eternal poetic truth and this world will never change ! Thank you poet !

Anne-Lise Andresen December 19, 2023 at 12:57 PM - WOOOOW ... look at this ... at the top of the100 best new poems list ... congratulations, my friend - HUGS

Vijay Pandit December 19, 2023 at 5:31 AM My turn to congratulate you on being at the TOP of best poems, SO. Enjoy the crown, my friend!

Malabika Ray Choudhury December 18, 2023 at 2:54 PM This is a wonderful example of mono rhyme - a powerful picture of the saddest and cruelest things happening every day in our world, today and tomorrow. Your pen is strong, your heart is kind - together you create exceptional poems, Dear SO. Adding this to my Faves. Best wishes ~

Valsa George December 17, 2023 at 9:46 PM This great poem written in monorhyme is a true mirroring of our present war torn world where even babies are mercilessly butchered and mothers keep crying. This refrain in the poem tugs at my heart strings. Congratulations on this being placed second among the top hundred poems.

Andrea Dietrich December 17, 2023 at 3:13 PM I remember that song too. So good those times of 60's and 70's music

Andrea Dietrich December 17, 2023 at 3:12 PM Congratulations back at you. This is nearly to the tip top of the chart.

Unseeking Seeker December 15, 2023 at 8:53 PM So relevant in these turbid, war stricken times. Happy to see this poem on the top of the charts.

Suzanne Arbil December 15, 2023 at 11:07 AM Its very powerful. I had to read it twice. So interesting as you had me from “Politicians keep lying/Hate keeps breeding” because for what is going on politically today, it’s so true. It sends a message of people are doing their thing while all of this crap is going around them, and the people we are supposed to lean on for help are still doing what they’ve always done which really does not serve the people anymore. This poem made me think which is wonderful. Thanks for sharing it!

Christopher Flaherty November 8, 2023 at 4:49 PM Why yes indeed ohh Silent One Bleeding unfortunately from Self - Inflicted wounds and poison cuts Where there is a will , there is a way But unfortunately it patently seems Our chosen voted for in Political Leaders Quite obviously prefer Crying and Bleeding That is both their will and way

Suzanne Delaney November 7, 2023 at 8:05 AM All of it is true S. O. Really great use of the Monorhyme form with that internal repetition of the intransitive verb ‘keep’ I want to fave this to read again. TRUTH IS ETERNAL. SuZ

Susan Manley November 6, 2023 at 4:49 PM We all die a little death our emotions crash and crest as we see the evil man can do to people just like me and you and none of it is progress Love this Silent One. I can't play with the forms like you do yet. But mayhap some day. I will let your writings simmer in my heart and head to instruct by instinct instead. thank you

I Am Anaya November 5, 2023 at 4:41 PM Excellent monorhyme, in a timely manner...War what is it good for...definitely nothing! Great write, SO xhugs

Bill Baker November 3, 2023 at 5:47 PM An excellent Monorhyme, my friend. Nothing be agreement on the message. I liked the repeated lines for emphases, it enhanced the depth of the emotions I felt while reading the poem. Have a great weekend! Bill

Paula Goldsmith November 2, 2023 at 8:29 AM Back with Congratulations on your win. I enjoyed reading this one again. Your pen was working overtime. Have Blessed Day Writing Away......................

Maria Williams October 31, 2023 at 4:18 AM War, what an unnecessary and costly thing. Military intervention has mostly failed leaving rivulets of blood and despair beyond belief. A powerful write S1. Humanity keeps bleeding World keeps sleeping. Does look that way. When is it ever going to stop? Hugs

Paige Hind October 30, 2023 at 6:05 PM Yes, this is all so true... and such tragic realities...

Fading Star Silence October 30, 2023 at 1:14 PM Wow..I have no words to do this masterpiece Justice! Your haunting piece has touched me so deeply..the truth of your words has me reeling in the raw fear and hate we see and continue to see..past, present and future..as a mother, I cry, more than feeling the unbearable heartbreak and despair these mothers feel in every corner of their souls..as a person who loves and prays for peace everyday, my heart and soul is pounding in pain..you’ve truly woven this piece with the darkest truths.. Fading Star Silence October 30, 2023 at 1:17 PM Unfathomable to those of us who can’t truly know the true horrors and darkness these human souls have and are experiencing..it hurts my heart..

Meymei Rose October 30, 2023 at 12:47 PM The truth. Our beautiful planet is full of unimaginable darkness and suffering.

John Hamilton October 30, 2023 at 11:16 AM Sad but true, every line speaks truth. Humanity keeps on being inhumane. Stellar write although horrific subject matter!

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