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“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

Date: 12/28/2023 5:07:00 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

Date: 12/27/2023 5:37:00 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

Date: 12/27/2023 2:54:00 PM

Congratulations SO on a very moving and timely poem.

Barbara Barry-Nishanian

Date: 12/27/2023 2:13:00 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

Date: 12/27/2023 12:14:00 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

Date: 12/22/2023 7:44:00 AM

An eternal poetic truth and this world will never change ! Thank you poet !

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 12/19/2023 12:57:00 PM

- WOOOOW ... look at this ... at the top of the100 best new poems list ... congratulations, my friend - HUGS

Vijay Pandit

Date: 12/19/2023 5:31:00 AM

My turn to congratulate you on being at the TOP of best poems, SO. Enjoy the crown, my friend!

Malabika Ray Choudhury

Date: 12/18/2023 2:54:00 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

Date: 12/17/2023 9:46:00 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

Date: 12/17/2023 3:13:00 PM

I remember that song too. So good those times of 60's and 70's music

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 12/17/2023 3:12:00 PM

Congratulations back at you. This is nearly to the tip top of the chart.

Unseeking Seeker

Date: 12/15/2023 8:53:00 PM

So relevant in these turbid, war stricken times. Happy to see this poem on the top of the charts.

Suzanne Arbil

Date: 12/15/2023 11:07:00 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

Date: 11/8/2023 4:49:00 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

Date: 11/7/2023 8:05:00 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

Date: 11/6/2023 4:49:00 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

Date: 11/5/2023 4:41:00 PM

Excellent monorhyme, in a timely manner...War what is it good for...definitely nothing! Great write, SO xhugs

Bill Baker

Date: 11/3/2023 5:47:00 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

Date: 11/2/2023 8:29:00 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

Date: 10/31/2023 4:18:00 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

Date: 10/30/2023 6:05:00 PM

Yes, this is all so true... and such tragic realities...

Fading Star Silence

Date: 10/30/2023 1:14:00 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
Date: 10/30/2023 1:17:00 PM