A CAPITALISTIC PERSPECTIVE ON WAR: A TANKA QUINTET FLOW
...Bombs begetting bombs,
War mongers are safe and sound;
Others being bombed:
The bombing of others reaps
Bloody power over them
No matter who dies,
Nuclear war bombing pays off;
Bombs begett...
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Categories:
bombings, allegory,
Form: Tanka
Genocide in Real Time
...We cowardly witnessed the genocide of many human beings
Live, live, live in real time
That was an odious, callous and vicious crime
We said nothing, absolutely nothing about the sad and...
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Categories:
bombings, anti bullying, color, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
IN THE SPRING OF CONFUSION: A TANKA DUO
...Tree-branched bird staring,
Looking me right in the eyes;
We both confused:
Humsn and natural nature,
Inhibiting springing peace:-
Wars' twofold nature:
Destructive storms and b...
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Categories:
bombings, allegory,
Form: Tanka
US AND THE STATE OF THE NATION AND ITS WORLD
...With our present world encapsulated
In a shell of abject tragedy, it’s becoming
Painfully difficult to pen pleasurable words
Of the beautiful glow of the graces of nature
As that of human...
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Categories:
bombings, allegory, analogy, anxiety, corruption,
Form: Prose
YESTERDAY REVIEWED AND RENEWED AGAIN
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YESTERDAY VIEWED AND RENEWED AGAIN
It is being pontificated
that we should be on the right side
Of history;
But if we were to do so,
We would be on the wrong side
Of ourstory:-
While ...
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Categories:
bombings, allegory, black african american,
Form: Prose
Munich Massacre celebration BXO82 operation brown sugar baby powder
...I'm fondly reminded of touring Europe our housing quarters and daycare i worked were under planned attacks blessing the attack meant for women and children would strike celebration of black September...
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Categories:
bombings, allah,
Form: Quatern
GODs
...Faith is a beautiful thing
if you're lucky to be blessed
For as you grow older
it all becomes messed
As a child it made sense
the stories and fables
As an adult;
you're the horse t...
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Categories:
bombings, anger, devotion, faith, god,
Form: Rhyme
'Peaceful Campus Protests'
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Shouts of ‘Only one solution –
an Intifada Revolution’
at protests described as ‘peaceful’
by pundits expert at circumlocution
130 suicide bombings; countless stabbi...
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Categories:
bombings, hate, jewish, murder, peace,
Form: Couplet
Traumatic brain injury headaches
...I shan't try and be witty an engage in the norm
peeking through such pain my eyes see dim
as crushing temporal lesion push against
soft tissue endings pounding my optic nerves
from my forehea...
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Categories:
bombings, allah,
Form: Grook
War and Peace
...("Field of Dreams - Flanders 1917", 2020, original oil)
("Field of Dreams - Flanders 2017", 2020, original oil)
War and Peace
Everyone wants peace,
the irony is it takes war to get it...
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Categories:
bombings, peace, war,
Form: Narrative
Standing For the Truth
...People who tell it like it is
Are usually wrongfully targeted
People who tell the truth with ease
Are routinely are attacked or assassinated
The truth exposes the weaknesses of the oppressors
Th...
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Categories:
bombings, evil, funeral, international, obituary,
Form: Rhyme
Us and the State of the World
...US AND THE STATE OF THE WORLD
With our present world encapsulated
In a shell of abject tragedy, it’s becoming
Painfully difficult to pen pleasurable words
Of the beautiful glow of the graces of...
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Categories:
bombings, allegory, america, hyperbole, metaphor,
Form: Prose
Not the West's Problem Putin
...Lithuania has told Vladimar Putin to keep out of our nation
They've been shifting freight to and from the Russian federation
Putin has said they'll take action, it's just another hollow threat
...
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Categories:
bombings, war,
Form: Rhyme
One Dream; Two Realities
...Each and every junction of a big city were blooding
Along with the relatives in dirty dark cabins
There was no age limit for the melancholic sobbing
Calling their lost friends, parents and cousins...
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Categories:
bombings, dream, hope, war,
Form: Prose
Please Do the Popular Jeru Song and Dance
...Instead of bombing, shelling and trashing our neighbors
Let’s all do the highly popular fun ‘Jeru’ dance
By ‘Jeru’, I mean the Jerusalema beats and vibes
Of South Africa. My friends, imagine that ...
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Categories:
bombings, anti bullying, bullying, conflict,
Form: Rhyme
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