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Color My Day

...In pitch black night there is no color, 
For light is color's revealer.
In daylight, your eyes see an object as white, when all light is reflected, 
White is all the colors from a billion rainbows...

Categories: objectors, color,
Form: Free verse

For Whom the Bell Tolls

...The cadence of the knell on the wind Lord
Has folk peering from windows and doors
A reminder of fickle mortality
Peals forlornly, for whom the bell tolls

The screams of the Angels, are deafenin...

Categories: objectors, child abuse, corruption, death,
Form: Rhyme

Bullfighter and Bulls

...A fuming, fierce and moving target
On yor species will you place yor bet!

Aiming the blade into shoulder blade or beating heart
all toreadors hope to throw that fatal decisive dart!

This bull...

Categories: objectors, animal, sports,
Form: Quatorzain

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Rough Justice

...Those who refuse to violate their religious faith
under the Hippocratic Oath beliefs face loosing their jobs 
if they refuse to participate in aiding killing babies 
The supreme court in London ru...

Categories: objectors, abuse, anti bullying, betrayal,
Form: Political Verse

Voting With Our Feet

...It seemed to me,
when I was eight,
U.S. Christian disciples and teachers
had been given so much grace

And had fundamentally boiled it down
to settling for such small subcontinental WhitePatria...

Categories: objectors, community, destiny, earth, happiness,
Form: Political Verse

Island Hopping

...ISLAND HOPPING
by

JOHN M. ARRIBAS


My first day of community service at Glen Oaks
Assigned to spend time with a few elderly folks
Spotted an old gentleman staring out into space
Weathered ...

Categories: objectors, war, world war ii,
Form: Rhyme

Conumdrum 1 Conscientious Objectors

...Conumdrum 1
                                      Conscientious Objectors
                                 
                                 Prisoner #1 says to Prisoner #2
          
          ...

Categories: objectors, discrimination, international, meaningful, military,
Form: Narrative

Last Call

...As a child and a teenager I used to attend a mission-hall, 
Which had an outreach to the homeless of Edinburgh; 
And every three weeks until I was about seven,
They would give the last call so tha...

Categories: objectors, child, gospel, jesus, leadership,
Form: Rhyme

Listing To Port

...There was a fellow riding a certain train,
And he posted an unpopular refrain,
In it he said, the innocents are dead,
With politicians and voters to blame.

To choose is what many profess, 
And...

Categories: objectors, introspection
Form: Limerick