Too Old To Be A Narci!
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When beauty’s gone bye bye and slack flesh becks
Jowls, crow’s feet, graveled voice and turkey necks
Too old to be a narcissist
what’s left is a pacifist
*Tende...
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Categories:
peaceniks, hate, humor, slam,
Form: Limerick
Easy Chair
...Armchair ambassadors
Lying in wait
Have all the criteria
For the perfect state –
That Garden of Eden
That Nirvana afar
History just slaps them
So they raise up the bar
It’s so easy to sol...
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Categories:
peaceniks, peace, philosophy, religion, war,
Form: Political Verse
Indigestion
...It started with an apple in paradise or was it a date they consumed
Had they kept their clothes off laundry day would have been easier
The smell of seduction and no fake news
Honestly who c...
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Categories:
peaceniks, conflict, corruption, food,
Form: Free verse
Cuffs
...At protests in the 60's
We were dragged away in cuffs.
The cops arrested everyone -
The peaceniks and the toughs.
As we grew up, the only cuffs
Were those found on our pants.
Designers did de...
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Categories:
peaceniks, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
Terrorism
...What is the world teaching our young?
Now a new day on Earth has begun,
There's terrorism as a new tourism,
using as a mask, any form of schism,
We all accept this as a norm,
It's time for attit...
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Categories:
peaceniks, angst, anti bullying, conflict,
Form: Free verse
An Amulet of Peace
...An amulet of peace hung ‘round my neck,
An AR16 rifle in my hands….
Seemed like such a paradox,
In the paddies and jungles of Vietnam.
An amulet of peace hung ‘round my neck,
A man’s life was in my ...
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Categories:
peaceniks, adventure, america, angst, change,
Form: Rhyme
Private Schlink's Musings On the Vietnam War
...Gawd! I awoke this morning wondering what I'm doing in this miserable place!
I thought the oath I took was to defend America's shores, not a foreign race!
The French made a mess and ran, now, Amer...
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Categories:
peaceniks, warwar, home, america, home,
Form: Rhyme