The Israel-Gaza War
...On October the 7th, the precarious peace
of the disputed ancient lands began to cease.
The enraged avengers brought the Al-Aqsa flood
that deluged the Re'im music festival with blood.
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Categories:
belligerents, military, war,
Form: Free verse
Hostages Kidnapped: Casualties of War
...Hostages kidnapped: casualties of war
After extorting pound of flesh
lifetime humiliation drummed into captives
hammering indelible nightmare
no amount of therapy can expunge.
Lifetime traum...
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Categories:
belligerents, anger, angst, anxiety, bereavement,
Form: Free verse
Pikersville
...We were tight — we were thick as thieves
Only we didn’t quite know it then
Isn’t it true that a friend in need
Is your only kind of friend
And we band of brothers
Went marching through the...
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Categories:
belligerents, best friend, child, friend,
Form: Ballad
Ptsd
...This is the story of a soldier,
one that swore his life and gave it all,
hold tight for this rollercoaster,
I can all ready hear you bawl.
You should have seen their joy,
he and his fellow bel...
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Categories:
belligerents, anxiety, death, depression, mental
Form: Sonnet
Ode To the End of War
...Sharpened pens were brutal swords; a war was forged
Blow after blow was struck, with blood rage engorged
Not one single word between them had been spoken
No flag of truce waved, or fri...
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Categories:
belligerents, friendship, war,
Form: Epic
The Good Samaritan
...No matter how devoted one is to their chosen faith, they forget, or have never understood that it is not of their choice they worship their God, no he, or she chose them. All Gods or Goddesses have c...
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Categories:
belligerents, religion,
Form: Prose
World War 3
...Keep digging trenches,
Enemy bodies piled in ditches,
No intuition for this is no heaven vision,
Where is God in wars religion,
Indecision, nervous flinches, Napalm bombs on all divisions,
St...
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Categories:
belligerents, conflict, corruption, fear, future,
Form: Rhyme
Unwelcome Dumb Wishfully
...Ah...
bemused,
bountiful,
belligerents.
Covering caskets,
cocooning, cringing cracks
doubting, desolate, dodgers;
forever fishing, finding fist,
that will always swim before they hit....
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Categories:
belligerents, people
Form: Free verse
Parody of a Soldier
...Eagerly joining the nation's martial order,
Becoming Uncle Sam's itinerant boarder,
Pledging to defend my country's border,
Against foreign malice and internal disorder.
Callously disregarding ...
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Categories:
belligerents, introspection, war,
Form: Rhyme