The Grave Silence Over Gaza
...I write not with anger, but with the burden of sorrow
that cannot be cleansed by diplomacy nor buried beneath the noise of geopolitics.
For in Gaza, the earth drinks the blood of children,
and the...
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Categories:
geopolitics, america, conflict, cry, death
Form: Free verse
Changing Direction of Time Arrow
...In time arrow’s one way course the winds of change blow,
wafting from the fading end to an unknown another new,
the thrust of transformation they get from the power
the spurt of history gives ...
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Categories:
geopolitics, change, time, world,
Form: Free verse
Let Peace Return
...A proud country trying to break away
From the old legacy of the mighty Union
And build a modern free nation
Is invaded uninstigated by the powerful neighbor.
In the senseless Russo-Ukraine con...
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Categories:
geopolitics, angst, conflict, war,
Form: Free verse
Afghanistan
...At the remote crossroads of Central and South Asia
Fostering pre-history vestiges as landlocked country
Gathered the dust of the famous ancient silk route
Hibernated lo...
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Categories:
geopolitics, history, islamic, war,
Form: Acrostic
For Your Consideration 2
...Consider this:"An average American English speaker engaged in a friendly conversation speaks at a rate of approximately 110–150 wpm. The following are approximations of conversations between my frie...
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Categories:
geopolitics, death, friendship,
Form: Prose
For Your Consideration
...It's likely to happen at church before the worship service begins. But it also takes place at the end of the worship service as well. Believe it or not, it has been known to also occur during the bri...
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Categories:
geopolitics, death, friendship, love,
Form: Prose
Devolution
...We used to publicly invest in WinWin diplomacy.
Then we got distracted
playing
Button,
Button,
Who's Got The Button?
Now,
quite suddenly,
we've reversed directions
back toward
My Button...
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Categories:
geopolitics, earth, fear, health, humor,
Form: Political Verse
Geopolitics of Health
...Healthy robust empathy of embryos,
infants,
children
recognizes instinctive curiosity,
absence of apathy.
Active distrust is learned
through parents and schools and religions
and other dispiri...
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Categories:
geopolitics, destiny, earth, education, health,
Form: Parallelismus Membrorum
Happenings
...Falling leaves
Paragraphs wind blown;
Telling a story
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Two carrot cakes
Different recipes;
Delightful outcomes
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House work calls
Busy with home work;
Fastidiou...
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Categories:
geopolitics, change,
Form: Haiku
Villanelle: the Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 58
...Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent – 58
No way must such protective force serve politics
Nor ally dictator army criminal police
None might weigh on Nature to impose its ethics
No e...
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Categories:
geopolitics, anti bullying, leadership, nature,
Form: Villanelle
Of Terrors and Men
...(TO THE VICTIMS OF WAR IN MY NATIVE
CAMEROON AND IN NORTHERN NIGERIA)
Giants
Have filled
The FAR North
Sweeping
Bloodbathing
With sophisticated
Heavy weapons
Connected on a
Barren l...
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Categories:
geopolitics, anxiety, bereavement, war, words,
Form: Free verse
Imperial Corporate Jurisprudence, the Lurid Leviethan Part One -
...I was born unto a woman and a man, and a government,
this was the Trinity, these were my employers,
entrance into this magical melee was acknowledged with a certificate of birth,
and with nefarious n...
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Categories:
geopolitics, history,
Form: Didactic