War Free Verse Poems

No Victory Day when the Genocide is NOW

The Nazis were defeated in war
their ideologies simmered
germinated in the wombs of today's monsters
many may not know
Zionists and...

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Some days I think we were born tilted,
a vertebra out of place in the spine of the world—
a child learning to walk by stepping on...

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When done with poetry

Report my Irish American journalism

And earth will get literated



When did today's war start

Without Irish ink...

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Borders are lines drawn in dust,
but the wails of war ride the wind—
no map can contain a scream.
War does not choose a side;
it is a...

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In a dream
being chauffeured
to where? I do not know
where? the silence stifling
still as the night,
stars glowing…

but the chauffeur, driving
heedless to my faith – 
Jesus is...

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a golden daylight that you are
pierced through my grayest of the dark
calmed the waves carrying the storm-
that were wrecking my heart

in the darkest of my...

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The smell of fear is on the air
But still i keep on marching...
Side by side with my ally,
I find courage to face what's ahead

With shaking...

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LAO TZU ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS IV

The Roots of Turbulence
by Lao Tzu, translation by Michael R. Burch

Heaviness lies at the root of lightness;
stillness begets turbulence.
Thus the nobleman...

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 They promise peace, serenity...to all
      Everywhere masks ,masks, masks....
   The unending war against Him...
   ...

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A republic finds itself in a wobbly state,
Governance shrouded by an opaque regime,
Some strands emerge together into a credible tapestry,
Many weaves yet to emerge from...

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"Where does it hurt?"
she asks, clipboard like a shield,
pen cocked like a firing pin.
"Here," I say,
pointing to the silence just beneath my ribcage.
Not the lungs....

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There is lots of work to be done
But there is nothing to be won
There are people that I have to greet
And promises that I have...

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Me? Corny?
No.
But...
        ...
           ...
  I dream that...

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          Hiroshima, Nagasaki 
       far beyond the atomic act, 
...

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Dark thoughts linger, heavy, cruel,
Of my blue-eyed monster, sharp as a jewel.
The light in your gaze once softened my heart,
But now it cuts deep, tearing...

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