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It began as a lovely September, 2001,  at least, it should have been.....
somewhere lost in the crossfire, between summer and fall
days growing short, and evenings long

But, things now warped into a sense of surreal.  What was seen, could not be real
As if bifocals...

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Categories: crossfire, history, holocaust, loss, remember,
Form: Free verse
Caught In the Crossfire
Turmoil looms over private skies
Thick with fog firmly affixed to a bedroom ceiling
Though squinting escapes clarity's eyes 
Of love and hate in the brotherly cloud of feelings

Of flesh and blood consumed with rage
Over jealous tirades turned warriors gun
As woeful stains turn the scrapbook page
On a...

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Categories: crossfire, anger, brother, bullying, emotions,
Form: Quatrain
Crossfire
crossfire 
©Rajat Kanti Chakrabarty
10/31/2014



Caught in the crossfire 
He bought a Greek lyre ( we must admire)
He harped on and on–a liar...

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Categories: crossfire, fun, nonsense,
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Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry



Karma Dogma
If intent and actions
are cause and effect
and influence the future
what you give is what you get
and yet
what about children
caught in the crossfire
when very young
murdered in man's mire
they have not yet begun
to live
and love is all they have to give
so much for karma
symbolised by the lotus...

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Categories: crossfire, children, death, how i
Form: Rhyme

Book: Reflection on the Important Things