Gunter Grass 'What Must Be Said' translation
...“Was gesagt werden muss” (“What must be said”)
by Gunter Grass
translation by Michael R. Burch
Why have I remained silent, so long,
failing to mention something openly practiced
in war games w...
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Categories:
enablers, international, islamic, jewish, silence,
Form: Free verse
Palestine will be Free!!!
...POEM: Welcome to Palestine. The land of the prophets and the martyrs.
Let’s show show some respect, and bow down in humility…
Gaza may be small, but their angels are all over and as far...
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Categories:
enablers, allah, christian, freedom, islamic,
Form: Rhyme
October 7 was Different
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One side calls a militant a terrorist
The other deems him a freedom fighter
Each side sure the other is blacker
Each side confident it is whiter...
But when it comes to ma...
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Categories:
enablers, confidence, conflict, death, war,
Form: Rhyme
Don't Trust The Sci-fi-ence
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Way back a learned man tried to teach his
Students, the treatment of using leeches.
And to those who had doubting defiance,
They were told to, ‘Just trust the science.’
After all what’s wrong...
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Categories:
enablers, hope, satire, science,
Form: Rhyme
The Haunting
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"The Haunting"
What happened
was a crime
in more ways
than one
who can understand
the mind of a recidivist
twisted, calculating
in this story, there is
more tha...
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Categories:
enablers, dark, journey, light, strength,
Form: Narrative
Bullies and Their Enablers
...Bullies are feeble beings that grow increasingly stronger
with validation and encouragement. Scared to act alone,
they fish for meek underlings to help fuel their fi...
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Categories:
enablers, people, perspective, truth,
Form: Verse
Father
...FATHER
Father, a strong figure,
who we look up to and admire
for he is the provider and the protector,
who puts roof over our head
and puts food on the table.
A good father is a good provid...
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Categories:
enablers, father,
Form: Free verse
Enablers
...Simply silent witnesses
too cowardly to confront
clear wrondoings, supporting...
negativity.
They give bullies oxygen,
...
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Categories:
enablers, abuse, addiction, perspective, truth,
Form: Dodoitsu
We Have Got Him Now
...We have got him now
All the Politicians of the republican persuasion
who defended Trump by being silent?
And they waited to the last moment just in case he was able
to overturn the election.
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Categories:
enablers, age, anti bullying, blessing,
Form: Blank verse
King of Lies
...King of Lies
It's all about you,
Isn't it?
Always, no matter what the disaster
You've most recently caused.
It always comes back to you,
How badly you're treated
By the Fake News
(By which...
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Categories:
enablers, history, political, social,
Form: Free verse
Head Games
...Head Games
You love to play them.
When you treat me badly,
I let you, as I thought that meant…
I was loving you.
I was wrong.
When you stomped on me,
or often if not always put me l...
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Categories:
enablers, allah, anti bullying, anxiety,
Form: Free verse
Driver of Victory
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Victory*…
…genuinely triumphant…
is and can never be achieved alone
since it needs a driver, propeller, motivator, instigator.
Grateful am I
for my victorious life-phases
brought...
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Categories:
enablers, appreciation, blessing, christian, faith,
Form: Free verse
Enabling and Crippling Our Children
...They look for a little bit, and then they get tired of looking and they give up.
They go back to their parents’ houses, lamenting that there are no jobs.
No one wants to hire them. The parents tak...
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Categories:
enablers, perspective, philosophy,
Form: Dramatic Monologue
Wheel On a Stick Part 11
...The Cinematic Film Treatment as a stand alone element
in the aesthetic revolution we are now not witnessing
Ideology Cartel
A Dogme 95 gut wrenching revelation of the struggle for political ...
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Categories:
enablers, how i feel,
Form: Free verse
Two Enablers
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Two Enablers
Who can’t Say No
Written: by Tom Wright
7-20-1916
We find it most difficult for us to say no,
Because we care for those in some throe,
The same people borrow but seldom...
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Categories:
enablers, how i feel,
Form: Lyric
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