Allah Angst Poems

Unter den Linden 


I have a soft spot for the German language
 when a toddler, I had free access to a military camp where they...

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Aftermath of war: onerous task...

to salvage flotsam and jetsam
of human wreckage
amidst a sea where triage
witnessed courtesy scattered corpses
populating the Gaza strip
more'n pound of cold flesh
forced...

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When peace reigned 

In the year 1334 or so 
the residents in Alhambra thought Catholic 
chimed too early on Sundays
at the time, Granada was ruled...

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Mercury
An Angel Having Recently Visited You
Sent back Metal Film
of Your Ancient shores
Cratered silver with loneliness

the Humming of Silver Tides
Or discs bent longingly
With long lonely empty...

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have you ever considered 
why we are what we are 

the elements of Stardust 
consider the electron of eons
That light from afar, drifting 

have you...

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so we scavenge, so we scrabble
we sift through detritus of pathetic little histories,
we search, we yearn,
for more, for something worthwhile,
for something good, epithanitic...

but we fail,...

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purse and chickenpurse and chickenpurse and chickenpurse and chickenpurse and chickenpurse and chickenpurse and chickenpurse and chickenpurse and chickenpurse and chickenpurse and chicken purse and...

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Beautiful things encapture me,
As though I am within glass,
Ice blue eyes,
A weakness of mine,
The way he smiles,
Another layer of glass,
I should not feel such things,
Blurred...

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the raindrops  commit suicide  on the window
as if they wanted to wash the goodbye signs
with the blood of the water,
- the rain today...

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Where have all the leaders gone,
those whose words match how they act?
I mourn the death of honesty and sincere respect for fact.
What happened to religion,...

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On site of this forgotten Babylon
What powerful but unrecorded race
Once dwelt in this annihilated place
What strange creature’s kin
to inhuman race
Dwell deep in antediluvian hells 
Uncanny...

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Sins of the Fools 

Whichever God their dice shall chose
judgment rendered all the same
guilty of crimes against humanity
its a sin and not a game

No one...

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We dream of rain... 
And the mystery of the gun
We bold hold and driven apart 
Kill the king when lovers depart
We dream of rain and...

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The icon fly's high watches all 
in absolute absence disdain. 
In the shadow of the Acadian machinery
Man's industry belches black smoke.
into a polluted bruised sky.
Gears...

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Binding darkness near
Twilight extinguished for fear
Silence so austere...

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