Short Mideast Poems

They are still fighting in the Mideast 
Jews killing Arabs and Arabs killing Jews 
Civil wars in Yemen and Syria 
lead  to the death of children
Will out poems change people's hearts? 
Let us pray they do 
A litle optimism 
is what is needed 
by all of us versifiers
We must do our best to help create 
paths to peace in the world
It is vital!...

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The wedding they’d dreamed of was carefully chosen
For brisk mid-autumn before the ground was frozen

As her freedom fighter struggled in the Mideast
She was absorbed in planning a fall wedding feast

A lively country band in the red barn would play
Magenta chrysanthemums would be her bouquet

Though many of his comrades never made it home
He returned to be wed ‘neath fall’s colorful dome



*Entry for Rick’s “Autumn Dream”  contest...

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He was a young English soldier in India,
A soldier's funds are rarely ample,
But he went into a mideast Bodega,
He sought a gift for his Indian girl,
Gungahontis...
Her favorite cologne, Eau de Camille,
sat on a shelf...he had not enough
money to buy it himself
So he pulled out his Dinar Card, 
and saved the day,  at least till about
when he stopped to bray about his clout,
an hour later when he was killed
by runaway horses.
Seems he was not the only one running
at the mouth....

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