Best Bagdad Poems

Beneath the window
the refuse refuses to wander,
at least not for long or far enough.
Plastic wrap floats like a bridal veil
taunting a salty breeze.
Oceans of buts..
fill...

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Greetings, ladies and gentlemen of the Associated Press.
As you know, our modern world is a chaotic hostile mess,
And we are being overwhelmed by garbage and...

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The end of May is coming . . .
  When  the nation celebrates Memorial Day.
  Schools and offices are closed . ....

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Friendship and wars

 The generation of today thing they live in a perilous time
I was born before the World War 2 when millions of 
civilians...

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Words hold the meaning that we assign them
Ever since the fall of the tower .....


Babylon
Ancient land of mysteries solved
and shared
Where collective mind 
cast away the...

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Leather, rubber, PVC 
Synched waists, stiletto heels 
Padded bras, chicken cutlets 
Body stocking, pantyhose 

Sitting around, TV on 
Laptops open 
Googling... 
Waiting 

For a sleaze...

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Leather, rubber, PVC 
Synched waists, stiletto heels 
Chicken cutlets shoved in bras 
Body stocking, pantyhose 

Sitting around, TV on 
Laptops open 
Googling... 
Waiting 

For a...

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The fanged serpents are uncoiled
And they have encircled the landmass
From the Mediterranean to Euphratis and Tigris
And Paris
They hiss, they hiss.

IS is a snake
With claims fake
Eclipsing...

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twiglets embrace as thorns and flowers

                   ...

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Somebody took my teabag,
the only one I had,
Just what kind of scuzzbag,
could be that much a cad?
I only had the one, you see,
and used it...

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The Rivulet

Few words empty sad angry trickles 
Little ink left in my pen just a 

Dark Fountain of blood in my heart an
Other attack on humanity

Bagdad Kabul...

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Tomorrow comes, and lo and behold
WMD, Weaponry -  Middle East stranglehold
Chemical Scuds, conventional too
What will Saddam's madness do.

Visions of - Gulf No 1
Burning wells...

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Depression, suppresion of the Iraqi people
Call for the brave, no longer feeble
Statues down of their once ruler
No longer reigns, no population puller.

Uday, Qusay the tyrants...

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Mary Morse demanded a horse
"Give me a horse I say!
I want a damned horse
You'll get it of course
Tomorrow is my birthday!"

Mary was scary and very...

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(dedicated to innocent killings of Bagdad)

Oh, my lord, 
I don't know, 
What is true and wrong? 
You are only one, 
Who knows that all,
But I...

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