War Abc Poems

Monday morning

woke up at eight, it was a splendid morning
cool before the day becomes serious and
demanding attention 
belonging to the 1% of people born before
the second...

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Changing world?

In Peru, they import potatoes
In Guatemala, they plant thousands of trees
drink cacao, sit in groups, and sing
think they are new agers 
the new war in...

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The Cloud of Hell
It was a perfect day, cobalt sky and azure, glittering sea
When a stygian cloud came from the east, the Lord of Wars
spat...

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The Jewish couple

I have written about this before, but somehow
 didn't  get it right 
My perceived brusqueness made them think of Cracow,
they had fled, their...

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The past and the future

A war was coming our way as a patriot, I enlisted 
Although I was a bit elderly, I was accepted 
sent...

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From Russia with love

Russia is a strange and great country, not quite in Europe
and not quite Eastern, they react to mayhem but seldom
intimate it; for...

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The end of everything

The master of the old tank ship that resembled a schooner
sat fretting in his cabin; for twenty years, he had been
the master...

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God and Austerity
The supermarket that calls itself Forum,
 has a bell tower, but now, in time of
 austerity, no one flocks to buy anything
 when...

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Fear and other things

I have recurring nightmares and tell myself
 to remember the dream in the morning
but I'm unable to recall the gruesome dream
I think...

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80 years ago

I was a toddler when the British bombers tried
to find the airport, they didn't but dropped bombed
on the town of Stavanger instead
I was...

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The Problem of Europe.
 
Christianity is a rising mist I normally do not bother to
think of  I dislike all religions as ill omens told fairytales
demanding...

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Are wars as natural as forest fires?

The world is a restless war between India
and Pakistan's armies are ready and eager to fight
as usual, the people...

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The class thing

I’m working class from the very beginning, my mother worked in a fish factory putting sardines 
In the meantime, she went to work...

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Sumptuous sensual satin surroundings
Treasured plush, palatial, plushy pillows
Upholstered sofas, tasseled tapestries
Valued prized spoils of war
Wealthy coffers of the lucky highborn
...

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A Horse and ale
The brewery had many horses to carry crates of beer
around to small shops,  each horse and its driver was assigned a...

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