Long Globalized Poems

Once wars were fought with sticks and stones
to flog the flesh and batter bones
and conquer lands, defending thrones -
though gods provoke, not one atones. 

The multitude (by hordes beset
with battle-ax or bayonet)
braved blades, dyed red...

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The ask of cultures. 
Dutch to Portugal, do you think colonisation of fruit and lands and their inhabitants was the fairest exchange of our tactics of the strategy to wrestles of communication. They decided the...

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Robert Sherriff - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian – Photographer

The Common Pursuit of Inclusivity and Mutual Respect: This is not just a goal but a necessity for our society...

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Your tarnished grey paint on a rotting wood canvas.
This melancholy greeting from an entrance to exploitation.
Why I keep meeting you in that gloomy terrain,
Why I trudge through rain and grime to slave for you,
Is all...

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I still wrestle with human afflictions,
when I see others suffering,
groping in the dark of invasion –
where the rich and powerful
become richer, tutors of domination,
over these poor people, my own people.

In a globalized and interdependent world,
the...

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I still wrestle with human afflictions,
when I see others suffering,
groping in the dark of invasion –
where the rich and powerful
become richer, tutors of domination,
over these poor people, my own people.

In a globalized and interdependent world,
the...

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I hope to heaven that when I die
I meet Woody Guthrie in the sky
and then upon a dust-bowl cloud
we'll find the grace to sing aloud,
and that the Heavens won't debar
the using of a stringed guitar,
though...

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A freedom is an epic.
Indian’s freedom is a splendid superior spectacle.
The common idea of million minds
And the common battle for billion hearts.

More than trillion cones turned to craft few patriotic arts.
The voice of millions of...

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Moving toward the absurd as war in Baghdad goes on,
along with the print traffic jam and airwaves;
continues to unfold horror stories, deaths: a tinku 
that spew out of Iraq – the ancient Middle East sand.

...

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The 6th and 9th have come and gone though none have taken note
that faraway, on those two days, an instant blazing blast
had vaporized morality. A bygone anecdote?
It seems such tales are best forgot and buried...

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The truth has turned to fiction
Lies are stated as if they’re fact
While overzealous politicians
Stab one another in the back

Right and left are being polarized
There seems to be no middle ground
In a world becoming globalized
No unification...

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Once isolated from the world 
In tune with nature
Living day to day
Self sufficient 

Thrust into a globalized world 
New opportunities, open markets
Technological advances
Loss of control
Terrrorism
Disease

The pace of life quickens
Daylight hours changed
Individualism and accumulation
Destabilizing forces 
Confusion,...

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