Long Intifada Poems

Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep...

versus being alive 
predicated victory videre licet lunatic
if Trump trumped Kamala Harris
and stole 2024 presidential election,  
(whereat Musk bribed 
significant number of voters
handing out wads of cash)
courtesy underhanded modus operandi
and...

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Gloriously luxuriating in eternal sleep

Forlorn; bereft of golden
(slippered) opportunities I weep;
Three score and four years
replete with mailer daemons,
hence mindset adrip
with self denouncing expletive filled bleep
unwritten expressed recriminations
wielded upon figurative head of wimpy blip;
decades elapsed at...

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I saw the great con that was Y2K
I saw all the scaremongering go away

I saw in my arms a child I love so
I saw that I did not want to let him go

I saw that...

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…thirteen miners…
…only one survived… 
…still clinging to life...  
...with a history of violations...
It wasn’t West Virginia. 
It was I.
And I’m taking the day off. 
I know it won’t rhyme, 
But I’ve been pummeled.
Run through...

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Two thousand five, the Israeli PM thought there he knew the way
HE had to get out of Gaza, it's impossible to stay
"We can't rule over all these people, and the world will thank us too"
So...

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Why this never ending hate
Where impressionable young men swallow jaundiced bait,
To kill and maim - all in the name of their one prophet,
Unleashing burning mayhem with rocket after rocket.

Has discourse and humanity disintegrated to this...

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On June 25, 2025, a 33-year-old far-left democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani, a Muslim, won the Democratic primary for New York City mayor. Mr. Mamdani is a “globalize the intifada” and “tax the rich” guy, known...

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From Tripoli to Cairo
I saw the intifada leftover
After Tunisia and Yemen
Like a dam broken
After it had sucked life from dry sand
Morocco, Kuwait, Djibouti and Oman
I heard birds singing at the cliff
Falsetto dawn
In the rift valley...

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The Fight for Freedom 

Another art exhibition, paintings of naïve art decorated on ancient doors 
and window shutters, most of them about harvesting of olive and carobs. 
And of course there were mules and donkeys...

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(“Creation Myth Merit Badge”, 2016, original oil)

Global Intifada

Everywhere you look today the world is burning
Or is a dried out husk waiting to spark.

It’s a self proclaimed global intifada after all,
Sweeping like a plague across hearts...

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(“Glimpsing Hokusai”, 2017, original encaustic)

Intifada aka “Kill the Jews!”

While we were sleeping content in our lives 
Something dark and ugly was growing inside
Spreading across the lawns, and fibers of the net
An intifada of hate as...

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   I hear the boots of Krystallnacht 
   marching in our streets
     Heil, Hitler… Heil, Sinwar…
     Heil, Hitler… Heil, Sinwar…

   I...

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      Today I hear a jarring circumlocution
         ‘One solution, intifada revolution’

      The first Intifada lasted from ’87...

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  They shout ‘Not in my name’
    as if for Israel’s self-defense
       they were to blame

  They scream ‘Globalize the Intifada’
   ...

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   Shouts of ‘Only one solution – 
      an Intifada Revolution’

   at protests described as ‘peaceful’
      by pundits expert at circumlocution...

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