Vanilla Afterthoughts
...Strange how everything evolves except love
it just comes in one sweet-fleeting flavor-
Hate and destruction have evolved
We went from clubs, bow and arrow
to a fetish for nuclear diseases.
If ...
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Categories:
howitzers, society,
Form: Free verse
Weathervane
...Ngo Dinh Diem thought America was a friend
That turned out badly, he met a bloody end
A State Department cabal thought he denied human rights
They pulled the plug and turned off the lights
JFK ag...
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Categories:
howitzers, betrayal, character, courage, freedom,
Form: Lyric
Should a Woman Put On Trousers
...Should a woman put on trousers?
Yep: ones that don’t men make browsers:
That let Top Secrets remain secret;
Documents eyes should not just meet:
Trousers that won’t hatch Internets,
Lust cause t...
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Categories:
howitzers, character, clothes, fashion, woman,
Form: Rhyme
The Worst of Humankind - Part 3
...So, how to end this senseless war
You Russians have begun?
No peace again until Ukraine
Has smashed you, every one.
We’ll give them lethal weaponry
To fight our proxy war.
We’ll empty out th...
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Categories:
howitzers, anger, humanity, war,
Form: Rhyme
Fall of Berlin
...Fall Of Berlin
There on the wall hangs a mixture of paint on linen,
Leaving the impression of a city besieged, encased in ice;
Purposely frozen in horror to remind the living,
Of blood o...
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Categories:
howitzers, history, war, world war
Form: Verse
Bleeding Before Rome -2
...Yet at this very moment the cathedral was crumbling
down upon the cries of foresaken refugees,
the monastery's walls wobbling from war's wreckage,
and as the black bursts billowed into sun drenc...
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Categories:
howitzers, culture, heart, war, world
Form: Epic
Koreas Ticking Time Bomb
...Korea’s Ticking Time Bomb
North and South Korea at arms race heaven,
a massive number of weapons all waiting to be used –
tanks, guns and bombs.
One war was enough but nearly fifty years h...
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Categories:
howitzers, conflict, history, war,
Form: Verse
One Day At B Med
...Litter bearers burst unexpectedly
in with a casualty. Sergeant Lindsey
grabs one pole end, then BOOM!, the roof and rear
end of our frail little hooch disappear.
A swirl of black, smokey blue s...
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Categories:
howitzers, war,
Form: Couplet