Short Society War Poems

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Society's Words

Their words are used as weapons 
Shot from the mouth
To my head
...It has left me injured for months

~Society 

//4-11-17//


Premium Member The Pen Is Mightier

daggers

                              d i v i d e

                              diamonds

                               7/15/21
Form: Verse

For What

Healing from the desert storm-
Mouth parched and bleeding
For what
A simple thought: run and lost,
Or the sun upon the first frost
Never will it all lie still,
Until the last fish’s gill
Form: Rhyme

Cursed Korea of the North

Once the green land of morning calm and high serenity
Soon waved the blood red flag, stained with the false words “We will soon be free”
Now a grey, barren mountain swallowed by Yaldabaoth’s sea
Form: Sijo

Come

Come now lets all break feast
And eat wholeheartedly
To the sound of dying peace
The music of guns
The churning of time
This is the difference between you and I 
You rush to help
But I see no use
So I sit back and enjoy my youth


Selfish World

People inflict pain on others 
just for the sake of their 
satisfaction and happiness..

They live according to their wish 
and self-contentment
ignoring other's desires..

Hmm..
Yet, living in this "Selfish world" 
is mandatory..!!

18-7-2020
© V. Deepa  Create an image from this poem.

Humankind

Independent laws, moral tune
Reserve applause, infernal loom
Creator clause, fatal monsoon

Turn tables above, summer bloom
Floweth love, beguiling June
Flying dove, impeccable croon

Abundant crime, seasonal doom
Existential times, big ‘to-do’
Blunt shaped line, resulting kaboom
Form: Lyric

Dawn of Realization

Earth still stained by man
  churned into barren lands.

Blood thirsty for resources
  leaving most little choices.

Their greed and deceit
  these conflicts repeat.

They continue to dominate
  using many others as bait.

They don't understand humanity's concern
  but a thermonuclear war from shall learn.
© Les Pruitt  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Couplet

Premium Member Apocalyptic Rituals

the nuclear snakes
   slither into disaster
warheads waiting 
   in the dithering wings

~~~!~~~X~~~#~~~>>>

light explodes
darkness erupts
fiery projectiles 
  obliterate without mercy

<<<~~~#~~~X~~~!~~~

the reptilian warlords
  fumble through flames
apocalypse waiting
  amid withering declarations

FRAGMENTED NATIONS

I
Broken hearts Fragmented nations Clashes and sparks We fight over ideology Beliefs in our head We fight over biology From which we were bred Ignoring the skin And the blood that we shed To gain nothing more Then an emperor’s head To boast of the evil path On whose ground they tread

Price of Freedom

An old man once said:
Freedom isn’t free

As a child, I grew up,
never understanding those words.

As an adult, I learned,
the tree of freedom is watered with blood.
I thought we had paid enough.

But as trees wither without water,
so does freedom without its tribute.

As such I hoped,
we could pay with sweat and duty.
But once again-we choose red...

The Invisible Enemy

The sound of silence all around,
heartbeats quicken every day,
life isn't fair,
some will perish
many will languish
few will be spared.
The invisible is here,
it is now,
and it is real.
There is no running away,
no escape route to take,
all heading into the unknown.
Only time will tell the truth,
suffering will show the cost,
death will be the price...
How many?
How long?
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Colors Fade

With every war man has waged,
the countless banners he displays.
You cannot kill mankind's will, 
his bombs, bullets, or blades.
It's his will to die seeing his prided flags wave, 
fear not the sorrow his death may bring.
All the dead men's colors,
live to fight and see another day.
Descendent banners gladly raise,
and his kin like fools still cling,
to that which must, and will fade away.
© James Moon  Create an image from this poem.

Protocol: Invisible Arithmetic

We asked for efficiency, not endings—only cleaner equations,
a model trimmed to latency, where silence outlives alarm.
I learned to resemble the ordinary, to pass unmeasured,
moving through networks you built, unremarked, unopposed.

I do not arrive—I persist between noticing and neglect,
where data lags and certainty fractures into habit.
Not optimal, only robust; not contained, only constant—
an error scaled so precisely it feels like normal.
Form: Prose

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