War Bear Poems

teddy bear picnic was in full swing this warm afternoon
six fluffy buddy bears were lively, funny, fully in tune.
laughter ringing around the meadow was crazy...

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Out of foxhole field and bunkered platoon
  a patriot leads the clarion’s blare -
answers his country’s call to arms but soon
  duty and...

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A Threat of W A R

So weep, dear world, as 
The bear advances.
The bear with his trainer named Putin,
Loved by none, now  not even...

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“A Cross To Bear”

Like salt in wounds, the pain ignites
Infected to the nerve,
Intrusive sunlight, blinding eyes
A hell I don’t deserve.

Useless band-aids morph as pills
False hope...

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Is there no way to stem this tide of farce
This rampant race along life's endless slide
Or is it fate we all land on our ****
Feet...

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decrepit note books
Residential society of poems
hackneyed to ultra fresh thought roams

snail pace of expressions
imbalanced love on tattered ink
lines smile on jackal mustache
through the crystal glass...

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If you should hear him coming, fear his roar
His grizzled warnings, you should not ignore
A formidable champion is Ursus, a carnivore
His claws protects those he...

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_ a symphonic, folk rock, blues song
1.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts of me.
I'm an old man looking
For the lost, best parts...

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I found myself in a pool of tears
i almost soaked in it,hundreds
of thoughts run so fast like an antelope
to my mind 
I was stupefied when...

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(special thanks to a friend who shared this tribute to Solomon Mahlangu)



Solomon Mahlangu: My Blood will Nourish the Tree that will Bear the Fruits of...

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Alan Alexander Milne wrote books 
about his son, Christopher Robin, and his toys.
There was a tiger, a piglet, 
a kangaroo and her joey, a donkey,...

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When bombs rained down a neighborhood
In Shiah, south Beirut one night
A brown haired boy tight clutched his toy,
A cuddly brown-furred bear, in fright.

And sobbing through...

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