Long Tigris Poems

I remember that day and never looking back
I said goodbye to my family and grabbed my duffel bag
Im off to be a hero just like my grandfather and my dad
Im going to fight for America...

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BEYOND THE HORIZON

Beyond the horizon, three oceans meet the sky,
It is the land of plenty; you cannot travel in a day,
It is wider than the man’s vision and has no end.
Beyond the horizon, there is...

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In all my modest travels abroad,
believe me when I say
’tween the tigris and euphrates I’ve trod,
and seen a Great Lighthouse by the Bay;’

A magnificent construct, endlessly tall,
seemingly to the heavens it rose,
but no light shown...

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Do you know what happened 
At 11 p.m Tuesday night
I guess you must have it
However much I protest-
But do you know

Of course you don’t:
The victory of ignorance
Come on! I will enlighten you

I took the bi-valve
Flung...

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Cross ref's Daniel 12:5-13 cont.

V 5 Daniel 10:4  Now on the twenty-fourth day of the first month, as I was by the
side of the great river, that is the Tigris (V 5-6 no cross...

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-Thinking of Iraq Ware Veterans on Veterans Day-

The day after the terrorists attacked our country, I joined the military and was deployed to Iraq. I fought in the desert far away from my sweet home...

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And remember the sun never really sets only on covetousness
            no greater co-prosperity sphere is there than inner contentment
     ...

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Noah survived the flood with sons Japheth, Ham, and Shem.
Along with the animals of the earth, God spared them.
With floods, He vowed never again to do such a thing.
God made a covenant with Noah and...

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Let me take you to such a place
Where all of the sadness are erased
Where there is no discrimination between a gender or race
Where there isn't any trace of a devil, sin nor there is any...

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Near the northern end 
Of the Tigris river valley 
there's the beautiful city of duhok 
Next to the boarder of turkey

A city of many fruit orchards 
A very popular tourist destination 
with a fruit canning...

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Where blood is not enough

Blood flows, flows, flows
Competing with Nile waters
Blood Threatens to overwhelm 
Tigris and Euphrates
To make Red Sea, redder
But the head goes crazy, crazy
Where blood is not enough

The people cry, cry, cry
Yet the...

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We multiply by a bomb
Then we bear another.

We drag our children into passport documents.

We multiply far from the bedroom
And spit on our wedding day -
never paying attention to the tears.

On the TV screen
Baghdad storms us...

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Near the northern end 
Of the Tigris river valley
Is the city of dahuk
Next to the boarder of turkey

A city of many fruit orchards
A popular tourist destination
Has a fruit canning plant
The supply the whole nation

With palm...

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The Mourning Morning 100 and 50 Years On

Robert Graves lies in Wilfried Owen’s grave ponders the War
to end all Wars that continue  with nothing else for us in store
and Barry Mc Guire sang summed...

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As the wind blows across
 The deserts in Baghdad
 There’s a little girl in Jordan
 Picking fruits in an orchard
 
 In the back yard of her home
 In another far away country
 When war...

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In the vast plain sits the panthera tigris
The largest among the cat species
Beautiful in black striped orange fur
Fierce, the tiger howls but seldom purr

A splendor that commands attention
Elegant long limbs gentle in its motion
She is...

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Small minds people’s frailties deride
Drawing comfort and report
Although average minds decide
Events to discuss in their effort

To imitate great minds
Who ideas and ideals discuss
Upfront and behind blinds
Where they fuss

On humankind greatness
Buried into ideas
Whose robustness
Fears

Nothing as they...

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Beyond a sandstorm’s gritty veil,                       
A solitary Bedouin,
Like a ghost in a sea...

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A beauty so rare in it's habitat
Endangered they are by the human brat
Like many others on our planet earth
Our greed devalues their living worth

These Siberian Stripe-rs from the Trans-Caucasus lands
To view it in it's wilds...

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The famous mountain where Noah came to rest,
ending the ecliptic flood, building an altar for time as test. 
Flourished kingdoms at the upper Tigris grew,
Babylonia and Urardhu created powers to sew.
Persian legends refers the holy...

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We embrace the craze for the garbage
Sacrificing your sometimes fragrant calls 

Shifting from paper to paper
Like skyscraper the same garbage
In every news every daily
Spillage of helpless human blood
Lumps of life in lust for lawless illness

Your...

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I can still feel the weight of the heat colliding with my face as I first stepped off the plane, 
And how beads of sweat would tickle my neck the same as when it rained,
How...

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When God made thee

He planted Eden in thy arms

that I should rest

this head He planted 

the noisy streets of ancient Rome.




...and when're I come with rejoicing

and find a forbidden hedge of thorns,

I weep like the...

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It never takes me 
More than a wink of an eye 
To travel from the Levant people 
To the people of Minoa   
Via yellow river, Norte Chico 
Egypt, Harappa and Mesopotamia 

I’d seen...

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Before any known thing was evident
God existed for all time never began
He rested on the seventh day made it holy
the Lord had created Adam the first man

But God created a garden in Eden
in a moment...

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