Long Sarajevo Poems

Their story haunts my memory, I'll tell it to you plain..
in the city of Sarajevo, a place war could never touch,
and hope it never will again.

Already thousands remain so silent under rock and clay, 
in...

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not in the heart again
for chrissakes it's like Swiss cheese
decoffinated please I'm a yet ambulatory zombie
off his medication as usual
alternatives to logic 101 with Prof. Spike
far too much work for a dead end
saw his only...

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Your pain is my pain, because human suffering was never an individual matter
The wisdom of every culture, the founder of every faith, made that clear
We cannot separate suffering into cubes, accept baby deaths in Africa...

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A few of my favorite things

A few of my favorite things 

Looking at paintings of Cezanne Rembrandt Van Gogh and Rodin 
thinking of their lives and of their times 
of where and when they painted...

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(Author's note: It has come to my attention that the U.K. has decided to eliminate Holocaust 
education from its curricula, on the grounds it may "offend" some groups)

And so, for fear it may offend,
The truth...

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Gavrilo Princip wanted to kill the Arch-duke Franz Ferninand
To integrate Bosnian-born Serbians into the Greater Serbia
So with bombs and pistols supplied by the Serbian military
With another seven conspirators who positioned themselves
Along the route in Sarajevo...

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(On 28 June 1914, in the Balkan town of Sarajevo,
an attempt to assassinate a royal Austrian duke
failed miserably ... or did it?  Gabriel Princips, one
of the plotters, stopped for a coffee and by chance
saw...

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You rest your head upon my hands
And look up into my eyes
A gaze so crazed and wild, I see
Too much life in a dying child.
Half your body isn’t there,
Only half your mind is left,
And yet...

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Mogadishu ...
Black Hawk helicopter down
Caracas ...
Riots burning everything to the ground
New Orleans ...
Katrina tears has gotten many more drowned
Manila ...
Government death squads are roaming around

Global Dystopia
Earth frowns
Parents and children weeping,
sad mourning sounds
Everyday the sun comes...

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Sarajevo - UNDER A LINDEN TREE
The morning lights and to another day
a pirate's chest you've found but will not stay
for longer than the blinking of your eye
from troubled sleep to wake wherein you die

through every...

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SARAJEVO DREAM
Hang it up or throw it out 
it's what the world is all about,
there's nothing in tomorrow that
has not been dreamt about.

All things will stay all the same
 it's only what's been re-arranged
it seems...

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SARAJEVO DREAM
Hang it up or throw it out 
it's what the world is all about,
there's nothing in tomorrow that
has not been dreamt about.

All things will stay all the same
 it's only what's been re-arranged
it seems...

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SARAJEVO-1995  Another Cease Fire
As old as death and cold as nevermore
all set to stone, by those who've died before;
the acts of love, though viewed a falacy
reveal the truth of what has come to be
and...

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SARAJEVO Hate Will Survive
I came in the name of He who gave you breath.
As certain as the emptiness of time,
as hopeful as your life, and meaningless as death,
I came to stay.

I came into your palaces,...

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SARAJEVO DREAM
The freeze has brought them to a winters' night 
they've made themselves, forgetting what is right, 
and they can see their children cry 
but not a one will reason why, 
nor think upon enough...

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Sarajevo - DEATH OF A BELIEVER
In Sarajevo, death, down through the years
is fog of mind not meant to ever be;
brought on by laughter, love, and hate and tears
the fate of all too few can ever...

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SARAJEVO SNACK
Speak softly to the tune, it plays out in the night,
and never think that Sarajevo hasn't named the song.
Division is the rule, and  fools will make our way,
our fear has brought it down...

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SARAJEVO the curse
The shadows have been cast our way
both dark and bleak and black and gray
to play upon each foolish mind
no one can reach or ever find
where we have been and where we'll stay

in search...

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SARAJEVO 1994-95 - the sniper
He hides behind the dirty window pane
with eyes all cold and void of any care 
in blinding heat or through a drizzle rain
his thoughts are only what has brought him there.

His...

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SARAJEVO - the sniper
He hides behind the dirty window pane
with eyes all cold and void of any care 
in blinding heat or through a drizzle rain
his thoughts are only what has brought him there

his mind's...

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SARAJEVO 1995 - CITY ON FIRE
In the reading of the tea leaves
from the light of candle flame,
is the vision of the coming
of more ways to stay the same.

From the smell of incense burning
and the taste...

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SARAJEVO the dying time
In this the winter of the growing old
and failing of the hearts, a human crime,
as freezing rain falls thru the bitter cold
a welcomed bit of life is dying time.

No more to feel...

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BOMBERS AND BUTCHERS
Don't worry little girl, you need not cry,
we know your tears, and feel them every one
and all too well, though many more will die,
you will go home again, it is not gone,

but merely...

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BRIDGES OF SARAJEVO
So stirs the heart of man, the great delight,
   to raise a banner high, the march of fate;
to lead the way, where only dark of night,
   might find a...

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SARAJEVO - the sniper
He hides behind the dirty window pane
with eyes all cold and void of any care 
in blinding heat or through a drizzle rain
his thoughts are only what has brought him there

his mind's...

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