Conscription Poems - Poems about Conscription

...The arrogance of conscription the blasphemy of denial Abraham shouting high above to dam the bloody Nile We speak with words deceptive to try and steal the peace As blasphemy that ......Read the rest...

...Is madness a gift Can we use it to shift through life's rifts Unbeknownst to the moment that lifts Us to our highest yearnings that in time we'll witness it burning Our favored moments to cinder ......Read the rest...

...Woolen objects wrapped up in fine linen tucked away on a shelf bear the scars of age-old men lamenting in their years, while the sound of young men gets ready to join the conscription line thunders i......Read the rest...

...Wisdom seems an oxymoron if implied there’s ‘State of Being,’ slight trace found where truth’s wildflowers flourish unrestrained by seasons. Wisdom wears truth like a glove protects soft flesh from......Read the rest...

...First Love I love you like the first time I tasted peanut butter, the first time someone scratched my back. I love you like my first pull on a Winston dizzy with awe that such a thin......Read the rest...

...Chug-a-lug, Chug-a-lug – no matter the fly in our President's mug, the bug in his thinking...my reflecting on his ailing brain, and it's obvious volume shrinking: Those mindless, confusing ......Read the rest...

...…fighting for peace with guns is like bonking for virginity it is a macho world but then women can be excellent killers the barrel phallus washed from conscience dipped into blood a thin mem......Read the rest...

...Is consciousness different than having a soul, reflection unhallowed—eternity trolled Does the magic within us begin and then end, finite conscription—one lifetime to spend And if unrelated, ......Read the rest...

...AND MANY THOUGHT WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE Tell me child, what it was like so many years ago? When as a young person you grew In what we considered was times of uncertainty so, ......Read the rest...

...Religion in practice… arms length from God Close enough to see, never to touch Single lens focus, vision for sale Dogma as deity —conscription at birth (Villanova Pennsylvania: January, 2......Read the rest...

...Shouting at their profit clouds I have been on the left all my life Our leaders war in Vietnam inspired me As a young man, facing conscription Then Labor was elected and saved me from jail Or......Read the rest...

...Democracy is messy, thank God that it’s not Tyranny once embedded, all freedom is lost No liberty for the indentured, conscription for thought Free speech for the patriots —no ......Read the rest...

...The marksmen took their position a century away from the target The silhouette shape stood defenceless at the far end of the range A clear sign of an alarmingly unequal contest in difficult tim......Read the rest...

...Divinity lives beyond description Alone, a weary heart cries from its pain Desire eager for its conscription Might truth and love turn this way again? Sweet mysteries, this life, in dre......Read the rest...

...Although I'm childless by own hand That's no crime as I understand But parenthood I might restrict? This world's not one that I'd inflict Upon another soul by choice So, in this cause, I raise m......Read the rest...