War River Poems

Take a battering ram to the other side
The recoil will do me harm
A knife and spoon will suffice
Break the gates violently with arms
It will seal...

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The galleries silent, 

Some face the walls 

Did you see that 

The rivers are blood red

and they flow 

from forehead to homeland...
...

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These days want and need are 2 different steeds
You see the things you don't like about yourself
You stand your ground but the ground is now...

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Soot covered in the sky,
unending wails of freedom,
bereaved families and friends
even the little ones were not spared
but the dead ones will forever be alive in...

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The Mediterranean Sea, hostage to war.
The remnants of white phosphorus tremble in its waters. 
And countless fish smile before burnt to the bone. 
Venus, in...

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On this disturbed land, where prophets walked,
between the river and the sea, the Sun rests on the abyss
where peace seems to be impossible.
Is it God's...

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In this river we drown in light
A doorway blocked from me
Yet open to dry eyes

I can only hear your hands
Clutching that splintered wood as water
Rushes...

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Lorca Translations III

Federico Garcia Lorca (1898-1936) was a Spanish poet, playwright and theater director. He was assassinated by Nationalist forces at the beginning of the...

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I wish I could immerse myself 
in the pages of history, time, 
and deep reflection...letting go 
of everything I think I know 
and give myself...

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Wind has long formed ripples,
pebbles too, upon a shallow river bed,
a hand agrasp a wooden oar,
fingers dangling in play,
skipping rounded stones,
a...

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Is this the end of all hope?
I feel the ruin of man draw near,
I must raise my sword,
my family lifts it with me,
my wife is...

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Sleep eludes me
Women, kids, money, dreams, problems
Cycle in and out
Numb to the present
I can't do anything about
Run from here to there
Every place becomes intolerable
Where will...

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The war games
  
Yesterday afternoon in Finland, as happy people walked about
content in their world of social welfare and full employment
a train loaded with...

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You can acknowledge the emptiness at the core of your being
or go crazy when the world goes crazy.
The numbers of us overwhelm, 
an impending tsunami,...

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We dream of rain
In the setting sun 
in the season of one.
A wildest west and a withered crest, 
the coat of arms. 
A falcon and...

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