Long Conscripts Poems

oh youth in all its callow shades
               is from our hope, precisely made
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A year ago, the Russian state launched an unprovoked attack
Seizing land from Ukraine but they've bravely fighting back 
If Russia can't have it, they operate a policy of scorched earth
And turn many towns and villages...

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Oil or strife, is it worth all these lives
Festering carnage, thriving flies
Who's to say the region is fine
The old cliche, it will take some time

Lets scroll back to August 90
Iraq in Turmoil, to Saddams insanity
Economic...

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My spirit is locked in a conversation with my soul and my heart is crying out for more, you have stretched me to the limit just to see if I am fit, but I kept...

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The invasion began on the twenty fourth of February
When in from Belarus came, the filth of humanity
The world soon got to know of their cruel depravities 
Each town they invaded, they were guilty of atrocities....

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A quivering shadow shrouding a clouded pane
Shared pain scribbled in the doleful rain
Hollow words that broker heartache and disdain
A sorrowful whistle emanating from a distant train
Poorly trained recruits struggling above the furor to remain
Stridently striving...

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A Ring a Ring of Uncertainty 
A pocket full of Poppies 
And love letter good luck charm's 
A Spitfire thrust full throttle 
War chariot for a single brave owner 
History classes will muse about
With only...

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Here comes the rain as sun shines bright,
Streak rainbow plain in radiant light.


Feel thought now hurl a profound think,
Yet sense somehow a causal link.


Indulge your heart as mind plays games,
Begin and start what ego names.


Sure...

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The Volunteer
                  by Bob Moore (c) 2019

A volunteer is worth, a thousand conscripts so they say
I would never...

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One Man

One man, a man crazed with greed
Conscripts and commands thousands of others
Under the pretext of protecting their homeland
To attack and kill their Ukrainian brothers.

One man, reputed to be charismatic
Hypnotized and bullied his German nation
With...

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The Meglomaniac of the year,
Maybe seeing his mortality,
Craving a way to ensure
A really lasting legacy,
Launches his tanks
Expecting might to be right.
Conscripts don’t beat patriots
Giving the Meglomaniac fright.
The promised quick victory,
The annexed state of slavery
Crumnbles and...

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This is constructed in the CUBE16 style I created several years ago.

As conscripts March
and war is nigh,
fear grips men’s hearts.
Stern looks belie.

Their ears are filled 
with rifle shot.
The one for them 
they hear it not.

As...

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WOULD YOU HAVE SHOT ME

    MY FRIEND, IF NOT FOR THAT WAR

    WOULD WE ENEMIES THEN HAVE BEEN

    I BLAME YOU NOT AT ALL MY FRIEND

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A month into the war, caught by the wheels of
disinformation war, I feel maimed and blinded
by the extraordinary news reels feeding my 
immense sadness and grief.
How many more Ukrainians will suffer before the
month is over?...

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Diamond battleground
Collector's card currency
Hero factory

Little league conscripts
Vocal parental advice
Therapist's profits

Score report passion
Batting statistics frenzy
Relive by numbers

Glossary nightmare
Commentator's lexicon
Head scratching jargon

World series warfare
Stadium armageddon
Sponsorship looting

Counterfeit rounders?
Diplomatic incident!
Sanctions on cricket!



Entry to "the national pastime" contest

Written 12th February...

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FALSE PROPGANDA

As if things were not bad enough in the Ukraine invasion; come war
That we now have hackers; and manipulators mucking up the score

Feeding out their false propaganda, onto us; the unsuspected world
Just to find...

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FRET NOT
When you are rising,
they relish pulling you down.
When you are plummeting,
they are reluctant to pull you up.
This is not new,
nothing is under the sun.
They invest in hearsay,
they inject conjecture.
These champions of malice,
these conscripts of...

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