War Kyrielle Poems

You hold the universe in your hands, you hold my heart in your infinite embrace. 
Yet, my soul still doesn’t know it’s place. 
This planet...

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Winter has come without an end,
Pushing away what does suspend:
Springtime does not cease to linger,
Untouched by my reaching fingers.

Return to us the warmth of day,
Whence...

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Oh, the age of innocent play,
And to the park we went each day;
The park at the end of our street,
We would play like we were...

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Fathers are beaten, crucified,
in vicious murder, multiplied;
we dare not be ambivalent.
Have mercy, Lord, omnipotent.

Mothers tortured, gang raped and killed
by cruel butchers, hate distilled;
the mute images,...

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On every continent children are gleaned
for horrific deeds for few intervene;
terrified by brutality, often shunned,
the rabid rape of youth can't be undone.

Girls and boys stolen...

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Doctors make their routine rounds each day
Well-meaning zealots come in the room to pray
I sit here sharing tears with you
I wish there was more that...

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As the light from the Sun is blocked by our planet earth
The light refracts differently, hits the moon with mirth
Like a hot kiss of a...

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Abandoned in the fifties after the war
A freight elevator stuck between floors
Obsolete machinery, splintered old chairs
In a warehouse in Newark, New Jersey somewhere

Dead air presses...

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Protestant, Catholic, Mormon, Jew – 

I understand your point of view.

If you can’t mine – well, that’s a shame.

No “holy” war is in God’s name.

...

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Bird around the bay of white and swoops aloft the air
Descends upon the deck and lays a top a chair
Dear bird me thinks I leave...

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Love me tender and my teenage dream  
where is he now what has he seen
That insects a buzzing at my window grill
He saw me...

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In the beginning, there was little hope
working the slaves, and they had to cope
without rights.
That was their plight.

Freedom for them was not real
Until after the...

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Soon baby...This war will be no more,
   And I'm anticipating the day I walk through that door!

Soon baby...We will finally be united,
 ...

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Await the zenith of the sun,
cross clay courtyard a beckoning
barefoot walked, heartstring undone,
Oh Lord, there’s love, no reckoning.

Soundless clarion of tears fall
toward absolution’s bright blessing,
within...

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Sound our sorrow that all might hear
The children wailing as they cry
Save tomorrow from abject fear
Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky

Air our grievance,...

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Re-sound the aura of Holy you
In war or peace your tryst is true.
Through misplaced desire and loud falsehoods cry;
Ring out wild bells to the wild...

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Let freedom toll around the world
Ring out wild bells to the wild sky
A new beginning has unfurled
Leaving destruction in awry 

Let the hungry be in...

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Ominously, in the east, do the cursed war clouds gather.
Young men, in ignorance claim, "we are unafraid to die."
Send dispatch riders forth on steeds set...

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I don’t know all I need to know
To mount the mighty mountains
To sail safely on the stormy sea
And walk wisely in the wilderness
Dear lord, you’re...

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The tragedy of war-
                   in human hearts...

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