Long Peacekeepers Poems

When one makes viable peace 
Between erstwhile colonial whites 
And erstwhile colonized blacks 
To the advantage of the whites
We urge for a Nobel Peace Prize
Such was the case in South Africa. 

‘It is all for...

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the cemetery is still this Autumn day
as rain falls like kisses of love on my cheeks
to mingle with my tears . . . 
memories have shook the ocean of my sleep
so, I have come to...

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There didn’t have to
be a reason
no one thing
no trigger
it was always boiling
just beneath the surface
always.

It could have been
the number of soldiers
lying empty on the desk
next to the ashtray.
You know the one
the one that left
the two...

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As we walk the down
The path of life
We find some areas aren't
As well lit as others.
And it's within these sections
That our hope seems to fade
As we go through them.
Fears begin to surface
When we can't see
What's...

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"We are the dead. Short days ago
We loved, felt dawn and saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved ...."

          By _ Lt. Col. John McCrae (In...

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Soon
The war will end
Both parties will shakes hands,
All in the name of peace.
The nations will parade all heroes,
But wait a minutes;
Only those alive will be honoured,
In the eye of the public.
Mothers will long for there...

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Life is not always easy and it really depends on where you live,
I cannot speak of life in other countries because I only know Canada;
Canada is a nation of immigrants and all cultural differences we...

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"We are the dead. Short days ago
We loved, felt dawn and saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved ...."

          By _ Lt. Col. John McCrae (In...

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 I heard that he had been killed
in Afghanistan   
oh, I will remember the day I heard 
it was a bright summer day
azure blue
and my heart swelled like an ocean of tears
and I...

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On Remembrance Day . . .  I lay poppies at his grave, a lonely grave among
many, the military grave of my brother. He had been a beautiful baby and
sweet little boy, oh, where did...

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"We are the Dead. Short days ago. 
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow.
Loved and were loved, and now we lie. 
In Flanders fields. "

        ...

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My brother was a real beautiful baby
     and the sweetest little brother  a sister could have.
He wanted to be a peacekeeper- thats what Canada is famous for,
   ...

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O, Canada we sing, standing tall with pride as one,

for our land of natural beauty, mountains, trees and lakes;

we are a peaceful country of many races and religions, 

we are all immigrants as our ancestors...

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No need of UN peacekeepers in DRCongo 
As they seemed to fail their  mission
after some decades. 
Many Congolese accused the UN militaries 
to support the rebel troops  in many part of Southern , Nothern Kivu...

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Soldiers



Protectors, peacekeepers, sometimes quiet, always strong

Fighting for the cause, the promise, democracy, the freedom for all

Paying with life and limbs, saving broken people

But ever more standing tall, standing strong



Soldiers for our past, present and future,...

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Time marches on but the story doesn't change.
Innocent lives being taken by a person whose deranged..
Last weekend in Pa. it was our state police, one is still
critical, and the other is now  deceased..
The unstable...

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The snow is falling, falling on Remembrance Day,
and I cannot help recall and remember my brother;
now, his beautiful name is engraved in a stone gray,
he was more than a brother but a friend like...

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The snow is falling, falling on Remembrance Day,
and I cannot help recall and remember my brother;
now, his beautiful name is engraved in a stone gray,
he was more than a brother but a friend like no...

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SARAJEVO the peacekeepers
Tomorrow there won't come a morning bright
filled with a hope that peace has come at last
and smiling girls can't dance out of a night
that's been too dark and too long in the past;

from...

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Some of them had noted for long,
bubble afflictions,
they had seen the reasons and symptoms,
they proclaimed they were peacekeepers,
to humanity,
and wanted everybody,
to act with equaninimity,
so each time he had his own bubble,
which was unmanageable and sore,
he...

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Zimbabwe we hear your country screaming
We're powerless to help you you're at the mercy of a party thats murderous and 
scheming
Robert Mugabe and his thugs the Zanu PF
They deny you free elections instead they dole...

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In rows and rows
of quietus and grey,
are buried the brave
and I recall the day.

When brother returned
and I fell to pray,
gone my little brother
now, in earth he lay.

He went to fight a war
to keep it...

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