War Kimo Poems

Russian Missile

Broken windows like lost teeth in a face.
Shredded curtains hang loosely.
The Russian missile worked.
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Wounded

Broken and wounded, he lay on the bed.
His children watch silently.
The mortar round had worked.
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Frontier vulture in the coded missions
Autumnal dew is misplaced
Red syrup on the corpse 


© Mahtab Bangalee
15 October, 2023
Chattogram...

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In the temple of autumnal faint light
Prayer lips ask the soul peace
Humane ground is blood-soaked


© Mahtab Bangalee
15 October, 2023
Chattogram...

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A shattered picture frame amongst debris—
our memories left behind.
Bomb-flashes in mind's eye....

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Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was...

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A child’s scarf lies abandoned in the street.
Through splayed fingers over face,
startled innocent eyes....

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WHERE'S MY KEEPSAKE?

Nothing can we take with us when we die,
No, not a coin or keepsake ~
What are we fighting for?

04/06/17


{Note: The 'fight' here refers...

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Synonymous of The Roman legion,
Is strength and patriotism,
Courage put to swords!

Determined bloodshed, belligerent war,
Humanity stands the gaff,
Victory or failure ?





Kimos- 10/7/6
Written on 30/6/14
Contest- The Roman...

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A half-mast flag melancholy fluttered

blood of Heroes drench the ground,

the country is grieving....

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I saw a tree like a mushroom blooming
Producing awesome power
An infertile wasteland 

Written by: Brenda V Northeast
March 12, 2012...

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The pair couldn’t see beyond the present
Such hope, great expectations
Children, a home, great love
 
It was what they could not foresee that hurt
She holds their...

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Once danced to an innocent song of life

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Vast is the valley of the forgotten.
Trampled beneath the ground; lost
All this life, here lies; cost...

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