Conscript Poems - Poems about Conscript

big ticket

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* an updated version of a piece I wrote for my favorite baller, Kevin Garnett *

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intensity ... defined
excuses were for gods and gamblers
(lesser giants with fairer feuds)
HE ... w...

PC in me off

...Who’s been planting censorship seeds 
growing these trees that will not leaf 
referendums divide countries 
hornet immigration killing our bees 

Oh my god that’s racist Trim
if hornets come we...

Old Men ii

...If old men fought the wars
Would there be quite so many?
Maybe we’d reach a stage
Where we’d not fight any.
Life becomes more precious
With the passing of years 
The realisation of mortality
B...

Love

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Love, you are my dazzling light,
In times when life seems very bad. 
Love, you are my armor shield,
When conscript caught me heaped.

Love, you are my stunning beau, 
In middle of heinous vie...

But Winners And Losers

...I have no regard
for other poets
how could it be other

As they conscript
the words away
of which I’ve not discovered

A battle royal
zero sum
as phrases block and parry

The winner left
...

Glory To the Ukrainian Freedom Fighters

...Glory to the Ukranian Freedom Fighters
 
Democracy and freedom are under attack
Beaurocracy and greed man,
Don’t let this war criminal come back
Putin is lootin’ the streets of Ukraine
His crim...

Debits and Credits

...One year ago Dictator Putin’s
Massed military might 
Invaded the Ukraine
Not really expecting any fight.
One year later, with increasing 
Frustration and despair,
Putin’s battered conscript arm...

Richard Thomas Barden

...* It’s been three years, Dad, and it hurts like yesterday … I don’t know why I was the one to walk you home, but it will forever be my bittersweet blessing, and an honor I didn’t deserve. I miss you ...

Let's Try Love

...The world is a cold place. 
The powerful conscript
 the poor for war 
so that profits soar. 
We see an eagle 
and think how majestic
 never stopping to analyze 
what we're left with?
 How pat...

Local Wars

...All wars are local now.
If across an ocean
a butterfly dies in a hail of machine gun fire,
a moth here expires in the light.
Oil gases-up inflationary angst.
Cocaine lines grow longer,
Fentanyl...

Hexed

...Born under a bad sign,
verses time recalled
harder luck and trouble,
 moments trapped and stalled

Born under a bad sign,
rock of ages sold
answers stay unquestioned,
bells no longer toll

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In Silence

...In Silence
The English ex SAS Special Forces member went to the Ukraine to fight. He travelled light and took just a small back pack and a head full of skills. A gun was a gun and a bayonet a bayone...

Dark Days of Yore

...Dark Days of Yore

Knew No day should be evil 
Only people dwelling therein 
In its steep lights are casting 
Dark spell and curses upon it

The warlock is out loose in wild
Bringing back the...

Richard T Barden 1926 - 2019

...(The toast I wrote for Dad)


Toward the roses with his honor
Their peaked thorns of sacrifice
To those steeds he left unbroken
And the chimes a-pealing thrice

To the statues still in ma...

Bird and Soul Demand Freedom

...Wonderful cage,
not for birds a place...
carnal body, is not
  for man, ideal...
Be restricted to the body,
but not the spirit...
The spirit is conscript
to the universe...
The bird wants to ...

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