War Sedoka Poems

Will of Tudela
Whose zeal burned for the white wolves 
Against Languedoc's black lambs 

Nameless soul of gold
Guided by heaven's muses
Pitied the southern pastures 


Poem inspired...

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Hirosimizing,
Nagasaki impacts,
Atomic bombing pejors.

Scary scabs began,
Debris of recoil doomsday,
Fetus fleets on their way out.

Mushroom cloud embeds,
Tympanic torn by air blast,
This atrocity noted....

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Poet of pot 

Thirst die in flames of coal 
Which molded by water and Clay 
I am a gentleman who is digging the sand of...

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The casualties rose
We couldn’t keep a body count
mass graves dotted the landscape

a toddler screaming
countless villages ablaze
unholy despot glories

nuclear seared ground
mustard gas permeates air
rancid poison is...

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Back in the fifties
America seemed much calmer
McCarthy's commie blacklists
Sputnik's shocking launch
Ike's wife Mamie so sedate
That pre-historic hairdo

World War Two over
We needed some time to heal
Alan...

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Military       Combat Clothes by James Edward Lee Sr.

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One man showed the world,
  A lawyer in East Berlin;
       Courage on a bridge at night.
Spy, pilot exchange,
...

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a motionless pond

reflects an unblemished sky 

where war once swallowed the sun -

blossoms drift like tears

skimming over ancient wounds

while doves fly against the wind




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For Brian...

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Heck, you asked for it
The base in a vortex locked
Crumbling with the torrid shock
Of maligned money
Bonding the world in duress
Spewing for policy cess

Who fooled you...

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Yellow ribbons furl
on oaks that line our driveway
as we await your return.
Their luster's now pale,
reflecting the challenged hope
of a son you’ve never met....

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I write sedoka
mixed with alliteration
wonder when I would wage war
to tackle this team
For freedom free,fair and firm
before big boys bid for berth.




Olusegun Arowolo
Contest:"Sedoka me any...

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The last soul returns- 
coming from the town, ravaged 
impatiently, to the ground.

O, now I have- peace 
that never valued before, 
beaming inside my coffin.



Note:
Sedoka...

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