Soldier Racism Poems

Reserve 

When the dam breaks, 
there will be no flood. 
There will be no rushing water, 
to run from. 
It has all been drank, 
or...

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I remember when I was young,
playing with my best friend Jerome,
we had some woods behind our houses,
our frontier, where we would go roam.
We played soldier,...

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He was crucified for his pedigree (I weep)
BLACK
He begged for air, then water, then food ("Please, Sir ...)
ZERO
Look at the finely-dressed "soldier" (Serve? Protect?)
SOUL-LESS
I watched...

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We drink to Life. L'chaim. Summer smiles
In Leah's eyes, June sunlight gently glowing.
The glass waits on the earth, bowl, base, and stem 
Remembering. Then, shards...

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Postcard 1
by Miklós Radnóti
written August 30, 1944
translated by Michael R. Burch
 
Out of Bulgaria, the great wild roar of the artillery thunders,
resounds on the mountain...

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What Party Are You?

Huh?
Does it matter?
Who I voted for? 
I am alive, 
so it was legal. 
I have not been dead, 
for thirty years. 
Surely...

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Can you see beyond the mask?
Can you see the man behind the camouflage?

This man has fought for you, protecting you, 
your children and your kind...

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You watched it on TV 
And you might have wondered why
Colin knelt on that football field 
What was he attempting to try? 
The narrative of...

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L'Assimilation – Non! Translation of Oodgeroo Noonuccal’s “Assimilation – No !” by T. Wignesan

Born Kathleen Jean Mary RUSKA on November 3, 1920, in the North...

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Dance, Monkey, Dance!

Commiserate with the dearly departed
The dead stay dead
Consummate your marriage with anarchy

Dance, monkey, dance!

The media plays you like a fiddle
This life's damned little...

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who can tell a person is wrong or right?

day-to-day each one is a hired soldier..
fighting in their own battlefield..
not to kill a criminal or a...

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