Patriotic Absence Poems

CURTAINS ARE DRAWN

Curtains are drawn yesterday,
A hushed silence, floating in the room's 
Empty space,
Thoughts remain unspoken,

A group of people in shock, following 
Procedure like clockwork,...

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In Need

Indeed, 
we are in need, 
and we were put here 
by "them", the "others". 
Those that have money, 
and power,
and influence. 

We have been...

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The war games
  
Yesterday afternoon in Finland, as happy people walked about
content in their world of social welfare and full employment
a train loaded with...

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This land belongs to Buhari, 
he has the financial keys to every land here!
You must not urinate here unless you 
are a cow, beware of...

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Proud nation paraded in patriotic attire
Saffron, white, and green frills 
Swung and danced in rhythm

Warriors showed gallant touch in discipline
And marched folklores displayed diversity 

Dancer’s...

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Bremerhaven  

Bremerhaven, 1957 was a stunned town
Illegal bars and whorehouses for the many sailors
Who brought material to re- built the town 
It was a...

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 south of the border
festivals of other  - times
no borders but LIFE. 

Viva Mexico
Today Fifth of May
Because you observe

 LORD may we share some
fetes...

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Sitting on the rooftop, wavy hair billowing
In the wicked wind, fluttering away like herself
She clasps to her neck the silvery heart-locket
Before looking down from her...

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Waldorf warbling wa wo we wa
Glows from hidden archetypes are not architects nor are they archetypical in construction. In fact it is the translucent bud...

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I speak not, I trace not, I breathe not thy name;
There is grief in the sound, there is guilt in the fame;
But the tear that...

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All the lights in the city are dark
and the trees of the forest are bare,
we are left with as empty a chair

As could be leading....

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Dad never knew his father.  That soldier died in a war.
All Dad heard was brief stories of the man that went before.
Grandma had some...

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I am not made a full blown beauty..
Nor I live a life of purity; charity & piety..
All I like to do is to live with...

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To be in a young America ~
           visions of a ship upcoming statue of Liberty
...

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You're 3000 mile away
its 6 am
I'm in my own bed
dead asleep
my phone rings
its 3am
but your voice could wake me from a coma
you're 3000 miles away
and...

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