Best Taliban Poems

T	hose beautiful little girls you tried to kill
A	 s they waited in their school van at the end of the day
L	ive another day to remind...

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Here in violence and in beauty, living under the same moon
The beauty is so ancient, but the present violence here consumes
On one hand Afghanistan is...

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In Swat valley in Northern Pakistan
Malala, a young female teenager 
Stood against the might of the Taliban
And earned the respect of those who knew her...

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They stood and watched in horror
Their teacher was being burned alive.
Committed by what, they call themselves humans,
One hundred and thirty two children died.

What were they...

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Behold the sun of two thousand twelve go 
It rose on January one with pomp and show
Like dethroned Presidents of many countries whose
National wealth decline...

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What's up?
What's going on?
How come it's 3AM?
And bright as noon?
Have I finally made it
Into a Looney-Tune?

Who left me a hot breakfast,
Then disappeard?
How the hell did...

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Black and white Advent calendar
I will make you red and green
Haven't you heard the red oleander
Dropping its last leaf for December sheen

Growing up with bullets...

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The cotton runs high in the Taliban sky
Resistance continues, into the south.
I watch nightly news with a heavy sigh 
Not letting judgments escape from my mouth. 

I see...

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Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.
In the Vietnam war between 1965 and 1972 U.S. troops used a substance known as napalm
napalm...

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Malala
A child 
From a small village
Of Mingora

She wore a pink dress to look pretty
While she studied, the passion of knowledge
Her beauty 
Her heart shines in...

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Prayer Poem Dedicated to  Malala of Pakistan


Malala has dedicated her childhood to championing education for girls like her in Pakistan. As she lies in...

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Wishing for 1984

'War is Peace Freedom
is Slavery Ignorance 
is Strength Big Brother…'

is waiting for Godot who came quickly and travelled from Pyongyang to glorious
theoretical impossibility,...

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God must be sleeping now as the dog dreams

He mumbles help me as he is thrown into the ring

As he is bitten his tears of...

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Evil struck at school for her that day…
A beautiful child, wise beyond her years 
Its aim- to silence her voice and put her away
To end...

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When the blast was heard,
     Everyone shouted yet another terrorist attack
     On an Easter Sunday in the...

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Today I ride the city bus
the vast bowl of Biloxi
spreading out on horizon
mannequins in windows
homeless people babbling...

Maybe life
is like riding a bus
God is the driver
I...

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All of Islam deserves our hate
Unlike ours—this faith can’t be great
The ground zero mosque
Is an evil kiosk
Our lord says to obliterate

What’s better than the Ku...

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              Farewell 2014, God Bless You
      ...

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Like retired folk for Florida, the British for their tea,
Like China is for foreign debts, trash dumpers for the sea...
Like Russians are for alcohol, and...

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          20 Line Haiku Hijack

I stole a haiku from Japan
Stuffed it in a duffle bag, added...

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Slaughters, murders, brutal 
rage.
World stands bereft, blood 
shrouded face.
To gloom and despair, never ending 
race
stop and fear, we all are at chase.

Neither the demons nor...

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They held the field, men side by side,
Their will intact, their fears subside.
They mustered in so many fields,
And held the ground, refused to yield.
At Lexington...

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Those who kill innocents are cruel,
Their bodies will always be hell’s fuel,
Islam teaches about honor and dignity,
Care and love for the whole humanity,
But black sheeps...

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In a small, dusty town in Afghanistan,
there lived a good and faithful man.

To a two thousand year old belief he was true.
Protect guests in your...

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