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Anger smolders like burning coals;
igniting flames that consume souls.
The Gaza Strip is bombed in mass,
as hearts shatter, like broken glass.
Torrid tongues of fire lick the sky,
tasting Death as the jets scream by.
And there is no safety in caves
nor shelters that morph into graves.
Israelis don't believe it's odd,
Muslim blood stains the hands of God.
For words scrawled on banners of hate:
tout that Gaza will rue its fate.
Mother and child, entombed by Death:
pray for vengeance, with their last breath.
And spilled on the altar of pride
an ocean of blood: drowns each side.
There is no pity found in age;
for the young and old, share their rage.
And as righteous flames sear the ground;
hate, mistrust, and revenge abound.
Contested Crossroads
By Mark D. Stucky
On a battleground bloodied across millennia,
on a compact land bridge spanning continents and gods…
Canaanites, Philistines, and Hebrews, oh my!
Israelites, Judeans, and Samaritans, oh my!
Babylonians, Persians, and Romans, oh my!
Jews, Muslims, and Crusaders, oh my!
Turks, Brits, and Zionists, oh my!
Palestinians, Israelis, and others, oh my!
So many clashing claims to such a small strip of land.
So much religious, political, and ethnic strife.
So much cursing, contempt, and conflict.
So much destruction, death, and despair.
So many words of unfulfilled prayers.
So little hope for permanent peace?
(See also my poems “Hate Vacuuming” and “Bringing Heaven to Earth.”)
(Photo by Shahar Weinstein on Pexels.com.)
Three thousand years of pain
One hundred and fifty generations,
Can we define this as insane
A cauldron full of grief and trepidation.
No one deserves this sorry fate
Enslaved and dispossessed,
Wondering the world as human freight
Herded and processed.
Yet there lies across the fence
A people just as ravaged,
Between the twain a situation tense,
That by history's sad fate - has too been savaged.
Israelis and Palestinians divided by their faith,
Fighting over dirt their grandfather's tilled,
Where once was pride in sense of place,
Now lonely graves where blood was
Spilled.
Is there an answer - a solution to this sorrow,
Where cousins in but name may coexist,
Or are we yet to see more wars to follow,
And not from killing to desist.
The future is not mine to give,
But a prayer to free them from this yoke,
May a path be found for all to live,
To make a life that’s more than hope.
NO MORE WAR
MY HEART CRIES FOR THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD
WAR, EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK THERE IS WAR
WAR IN UKRAINE, WAR IN AFRICA, WAR IN SYRIA
WAR WITH THE PALESTINIANS AND ISRAELIS
WAR ALL OVER THE MIDDLE EAST,
WHILE LEADERS OF THE WORLD COZY UP TO DICTATORS
WHO OPPRESS THEIR PEOPLE WORLD WIDE
THE PEOPLE TRYING TO HELP THEIR FELLOW MAN ARE BEEN BLOCKED BY
GREEDY LEADERS AND COMPANIES, JUST LOOKING FOR A PROFIT
WE ARE IN A TIME OF HELL ON EARTH, WE ARE FIGHTING FOR ALL HUMANITY, WAR, WAR
THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A FEW CONTROL THE MANY, WITH FEAR, STARVING AND KILLING OF INNOCENT PEOPLE WITH WEAPONS OF WAR.
RISE UP PEOPLE OF THE WORLD, YOU HAVE THE POWER TO CHOOSE YOUR LEADERS, AND IF THEY DO NOT LIVE UP TO YOUR MORAL STANDARDS, THEN VOTE THEM OUT OF POWER, AND IF YOU LIVE IN A COUNTRY THAT HAS TAKEN THAT RIGHT AWAY FROM YOU, THEN TAKE TO THE STREETS, THERE IS MORE OF US THEN THEM.
WHAT MORE CAN THEY DO TO YOU, LOCK YOU UP! BEAT YOU! KILL YOU!
FIGHT FOR YOUR CHILDREN, FIGHT FOR YOUR COUNTRY
IT IS BETTER TO DIE FOR A JUST CAUSE, THEN TO LIVE IN FEAR OF YOUR OPPRESSOR.
NO MORE WAR! NO MORE WAR!
Today I hear a jarring circumlocution
‘One solution, intifada revolution’
The first Intifada lasted from ’87 to ‘93
A perilous time to be an Israeli
160 Israelis were killed, 3,100 wounded
after all those attacked were computed
The Second Intifada stretched from 2000 to 2005
a time when 1,100 Israelis lost their lives…
… not to mention thousands disabled
~ and all the widowed wives
So, make no mistake about it:
Intifada revolution means murdering and maiming Jews
something proponents eagerly choose
On the twelfth of August in nineteen fifty three
Tectonic plates moved in the Ionian sea
A massive earthquake bringing destruction and death
Caused kefalonia to draw her last breath.
Buildings were flattened and many lives were lost
It has since been rebuilt at an enormous cost
Fiskcardo in the north was the only town spared
A cry for help was answered because the world cared.
British and Israelis' were the first to arrive
Helped all those poor souls who managed to survive
Bringing medical care and much needed supplies
Helped the search for those buried, listening for their cries.
Many emigrated and they moved far away
Couldn't cope with the horrors they witnessed that day
But some did remain and with help rebuilt their lives
Now a bustling destination, tourism thrives.
The film Captain Corelli brought the island fame
Now everyone has heard of this Greek islands name
Drive up the mountain amongst the tall green pine trees
And below see the view of crystal clear seas.
With its uncrowded beaches of white dazzling sand
It is a beautiful place so fine and so grand
Visit the island if you ever get a chance
Enjoy their cuisine and wine and join in the dance.
Some ruins of the buildings stand like a shrine
Reminds you that this island is on a fault line.
Greek's are proud people; will never admit defeat
And will dance in defiance at what lies at their feet.
Written 4th June 2019.
Written By: D. Collins 11/15/23
Just like I said before, I hear it in their voice.
To avoid 10/7 again kill all Palestinian boys.
Make sure there is no indication it will happen again.
Just bomb the civilians until they turn Hamas in.
Scorched earth is not what soldiers like me do.
Keep doing it, I have a major problem with you.
If your attraction is destruction of Gaza hospitals.
Explain why the rest of Gaza has been leveled.
There's no way I drop bombs on a helpless child.
I tried to told you from a New Orleans style.
I don't know how Israelis train, and it ain't my biz.
But, I have a major, stupid problem with killing kids.
Every time I read this; I go back in time.
When Gaza was a country called Palestine.
Settlers are moving in just like I said.
Taking more of the land left by the dead.
Written By: D. Collins 8/23/19
The same ego maniac who thought nothing would stick.
Had no clue of the conviction we are working with.
We are coming to get him. He had best believe that.
"The Chosen One" will have his face in Big Bubba's lap.
"The Second Coming of God" will hit a dead end street.
When he discovers the world is more than Israelis.
He'll see people of color, in many shades and hues.
A world of many religions besides Christians and Jews.
The Teflon Don feels that he cannot be touched.
Well, that ignorant MF hasn't met a crew like us.
We're the American People, and we don't take no sh _ _.
And, we don't even care if it is the President.
He will soon see us, and feel all of our might.
Then, we as a people, can set everything right.
The People are coming with vengeance on our mind.
And, that pound of flesh, will be yours, this time.
The Teflon Don will soon become Gorilla Glue.
Where every dirty little deed is going to stick to you.
The State of New York is actually stalking it's prey.
The People will get every bit of theirs on Election Day.
They say we Jews are afraid
that no one 'now' will come to our aid
Murder of Jews in America is multiplying
more and more hate crimes, innocents dying
Well, that’s the way it’s always been
as any Jew with two eyes has seen
Six million of us killed by Hitler and his cronies
without a hand lifted to stop it by Roosevelt and his liberal phonies
To prevent the last 750,000, from Hungary, from being gassed
they only needed to target one railway pass
But FDR and his friends grew up hating those ‘damn Jews’
so, all our urgent pleas they angrily refused…
Today though, there is Israel, the Jewish state
reestablished in '48 on the back of global hate
A state that stands boldly against acts of terror
where Jewish Israelis glance not in the rearview mirror
My fellow Jewish Americans, the time is now to emigrate
let's remake our lives in Israel ~ before here it’s too late
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Anyone willing to do the slightest bit of research will find out
just how big a Jew-hater FDR was from his early years on...And
his shocking wave-of-the-hand dismissal of so many urgent
pleas to spare one or two bombs to target Germany's transport
of 750,000+ Hungarians Jews to Auschwitz in 1944 STANDS OUT
as perhaps his cruelest act as President, right up there with the
much more widely publicized incarceration of up to 1,800 Japanese-
Americans during WW2.
Mideast Peace: Oxymoron
Though descendent of Jews,
I feel boggled at the brutal,
nasty and wanton war between
Israelis and Palestinians.
Many innocent victims
bred to know and hate their enemy
impossible mission
to reconcile one Semitic
group of peoples from another.
The bloody English
begat and fomented
debacle between Israelis and Palestinians.
little more than a century ago,
particularly usurping territory
courtesy aggressive premise
might makes right.
The human species
hell bent on making war
reprisals rank as a ,
and can never even the score
I harken back to childhood,
when our family lived
at Lantern Lane, and the Dailey's
(who threw rocks at Georgie
our Dalmation/Boxer)
rightfully earned before their time
the title fear thy neighbor
an altercation such
as aforementioned above,
would easily earn a spot
on Investigation Discovery
though deadly crimes violently hardcore
reenacted minus the explicit killing
fields not healthy for children
and other living things,
nevertheless even the most pious
and peace loving
exhibit fervent bloody ardour
if kith and kin held at gunpoint.
The annals of civilization
since time immemorial
replete with chronicles
of battlefield bravura
touting (with laurels of profuse praise)
for ultimate sacrifice
unnaturally, unstintingly, and unwaveringly
bravely giving oneself
to father/mother land.
Beneath the surface of the skin
we all bleed;
mortal kombat inked
in Mesolithic Europe
likewise dates to circa 10,000 years ago,
and episodes of warfare appear
to remain "localized
and temporarily restricted"
during the Late Mesolithic
to Early Neolithic period in Europe.
Idyllic as the fantastical utopian yen,
I feel pessimistic patriarchal wheelman
who steer autocratic
leviathan of state (witness Tiananmen
Square student-led demonstrations
known in Beijing, China
as the June Fourth Incident
lasting from 15 April to 4 June 1989)
cuz twentieth century ruthless demagogues
wanted to squelch
pro-democracy movement,
and not only stole demonstrators thunder
but forcefully co-opted with lightning force
their toys such as:
sophisticated erector set and playpen
for dolls loving buoys Barbie and ken
the former coming to life
as a miniature equestrienne
experiencing magical realism.