Short Orations Poems

Would the world end today
If leaders went home straight away
And arguments amongst the nations
Were left to making orations

Would the nuclear missiles pointed from afar
Be put away and now not left to star
We would be left to go on holiday
And let armies just fade away.

© Paul Warren Poetry...

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Demosthenes was 'de most' famous of orators in ancient Greece!

His "Philippics" attacking King Philip of Macedonia is considered a masterpiece!

History recorded this and many other of his incisive orations,

For which he received well-deserved thunderous 'ovulations'!

(Written with considerable tongue in cheek!)...

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I come from Dawn to Night's long mile
Whose boyhood heard the songs of brooks
And mourned the sparrow's falling,
And Hope, those days did lift my wings
As lone I strode the gardened fields 
Of honied labyrinth...
Apart, apart! In Ever-Dream,
My bliss found full at giants feet-
Enthralled, bewitched at Sky's orations
Or what forests deep did tell...
And now the Day's long-bearded trek
But to endless shade proceeds......

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When a mother dies, her family sighs
Speeches are made, funeral orations
You seek to know why, then break down and cry
Circle the wagons: close friends, relations
Comfort from flowers -- roses, carnations...

The hours move slowly; then days become weeks
The return to routine at first seems bleak
Yet as time passes, a curtain's lifted 
From on high to her brood, Mom again speaks
Love abidingly deep ~ Heaven-gifted



            December 15, 2019...

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