If that pagan philosopher,
who lived before Christ,
said that Humans are moral beings,
because they have freedom to choose,
instead of saying,
that the man is a political being,
we would not have
so many wars and atrocities
for politics is contained in morality,
but morality is not contained in politics
as throwing atomic bombs demonstrates.
We would not have
that many divisions of Christ Church.
We would have one code of ethics,
as pagans under Hammurabi demonstrated.
We would not say that Native Americans
do not have souls and would not annihilate them.
We would not throw atomic bombs
on sleeping women and children.
In our litany of wrongs committed,
including abortions.
Phoenicians would still have been living
in the land of Canaan and write
chronicles in the alphabet which they discovered.
Categories:
hammurabi, spiritual,
Form: Verse
The depths of my depravity sink
My cruel and careless mind is aligned
With eyes affixed on all I've solely lost:
I dance with my scapegoating ghosts
Yearning to turn the page:
My hands are cut off by Hammurabi--
To keep from gouging Oedipus' eyes:
I am written out of the story
Ambition does not lust after me
I am forgotten in Dante's Inferno
My hands have denied any involvement--
They cite my brain for a lack-of-character(s)
Volition is cemented in the mire of Regret
Yet, She still screams to me:
"'Out damn'd spot! Out, I say!'"
So, we bury my tell-tale heart under the floor...
Categories:
hammurabi, addiction, allegory, anxiety, loneliness,
Form: Free verse
Cruel and Unusual Punishment 8th Amendment
Of particular news was a protrusion
Upsetting people with a serious infusion
About proportion of a pharmaceutical
Enough to raise and curl your cuticle
Cruel and unusual punishment create an exclusion.
This should be blocked and not allowed
to exist in our society. According to
Code of Hammurabi cruel as well as
unusual and capital punishment never
had any effect on people killing each
other. Capital punishment should be
removed from our social etiquette.
What do you think.
Jim Horn
Categories:
hammurabi, allegory, analogy,
Form: Limerick
for KNOCK US DOWN WITH YOUR LINES Contest
How many generations have to suffer
the stings of those who would be bigger than
they are? Cain, Goliath, Saul, Hammurabi, Xerxes...
Other Ages were no respite from Despots.
Caesars, Hannibal, Pharaohs, Machiavelli, Richard II,
and those of the Middle Ages. All these made us suffer...
The Great War was only another step on the road of
"Man's Inhumanity to Man". Hitler, Stalin, The Terrorists
of today. Can't we yet beat our swords into plowshares together...
written 8/26/15
Categories:
hammurabi, death, discrimination, history, holocaust,
Form: Free verse
Under Insurgents Hard Heels
Have you been under insurgents hard heels before?
While being in pain and suffering forevermore
Before you knew it, family member was found dead
And over him or her many prayers must be said.
While we all around the world may be celebrating
Mid-East people suffer pain that is excruciating
They before never created or had thought of
Only wanting world peace and all their love.
What a world has become full of conflict like this
No wonder many of my points they often miss
Another news story's here you dread to have read
About a child starving to death dying with no bed.
Where can any hope possibly ever be found
And much agony can no longer hear its sound
Some are alive loving their poppy and mommy
We in school read about Code of Hammurabi.
Capital punishment never accomplished anything
Only more tears and suffering often would bring
We live everywhere being a loving lassie and lad
Rest of world is miserable always seeming so sad.
James Thomas Horn, Retired Veteran
Now to figure out what to code this other
than simply, utterly miserable.
Categories:
hammurabi, allegory, anxiety, sad,
Form: Couplet