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Death and Destruction

Having been a journalist for the past forty years, now ready to make my final accord, I had to cover this one last story.  My days have been long, and my shuteye has been short.  In a small village with a population of...

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Categories: death and destruction, sorrow,
Form: Haibun

She Thought I Couldn'T Write a Song Not About Dope, Death and Destruction

this was written strictly because she wanted to bet and i won!
        I WONDER IF ONE EVER FEELS HEAVY IN HEAVEN

I will sing you to a star
No matter how very far
I will bring you to the sun
No matter...

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Categories: death and destruction, romancewrite, star, me, star,
Form: Quintain (English)

She Thought I Couldn'T Write a Song Not About Dope, Death and Destruction

this was written strictly because she wanted to bet and i won!
        I WONDER IF ONE EVER FEELS HEAVY IN HEAVEN

I will sing you to a star
No matter how very far
I will bring you to the sun
No matter...

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Categories: death and destruction, romancewrite, star, me, star,
Form: Quintain (English)

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

She Thought I Couldn'T Write a Song Not About Dope, Death and Destruction

this was written strictly because she wanted to bet and i won!
        I WONDER IF ONE EVER FEELS HEAVY IN HEAVEN

I will sing you to a star
No matter how very far
I will bring you to the sun
No matter...

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Categories: death and destruction, romancewrite, star, me, star,
Form: Quintain (English)

Hate, Death, and Destruction Vs. Creativity

Never would I have believed,
Such things could be true,
That people would conceive such evil,
In their unGodly desire to hurt you...

Your crime?: existence
You have no right-
Just ask a holocaust survivor
of their Nazi plight...

Ask the dead in lower Manhattan,
Slain for a version of God,
In Arabic, not Hebrew...

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Categories: death and destruction, death, faith, history, inspirational,
Form: Free verse

Fruits of War's Futility, Death and Destruction

Fruits Of War's Futility, Death And Destruction

As glittering spit falls upon hot rocks
rare gemstones melt into a frigid sea
ailing ships lay about three fallen docks
hummingbird chases a dozen honeybees
irreparable desert begs sullen sky
for some rain, as winged bats vacation
from the fiends that pursue asking the...

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Categories: death and destruction, art, courage, death, loss,
Form: Rhyme

Beginning of Men- Draft

It was the last day of the beginning of the end.
There were 4 last men from the 4 corners of the earth.
None knew the tongue of the other
None knew the face of the other
None knew the life of the other
They only knew the world was...

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Categories: death and destruction, bereavement, creation, death, write,
Form: Didactic

A Nuclear War Is Really Dumb

Everyone agrees that war is cruel
Everyone agrees that war is suicidal
Everyone agrees that war brings mortar, anger
Hunger, pain, suffering, death, horror and terror
But a nuclear war is deadlier, nastier and bloodier
More painful, more criminal, more diabolical
More devastating, more witless and more evil
Human being was born...

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Categories: death and destruction, anger, anti bullying, bullying,
Form: Rhyme