War Society Poems

Empathy Ink Not Blood / Trolls on the Run

           An Army of pens descended, the...

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Delusional World

Are we a figment of someone’s imagination or just an idea?
A toy, a game, my mind fills with fear.
Time is a concept, a plan,...

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The pre-dawn rang
as cat choirs sang
in waring gangs
sharp and rank
before they sprang
with claw and fang.

Isn’t it an overweening piety
to think that diverse cat societies
would address...

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The Truth Of This Magnitude”

Obstinate defiance from an indignant child 
Consummate reliance on the spirit of the Wild 

Intricate compositions of meticulous art 
A syndicate...

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Death of Morale 


True, I do practice the act of introversion quite a bit,
But why should I be blamed? To what am I to admit

When...

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       THE STRANGER IN OUR LAND

The snake that you can see
But can't kill;
The oath you buried under the ground;
That...

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Look and laugh,
Rip them in half,
Break them down.

Agony tastes good,
It's all misunderstood,
Do it all again.

Texting to rant,
Listen to them pant,
A spreading frown.

Tease and taunt,
Chuckle and...

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("Snake II", 2015, original block print)

Gaslit

In these times of constant parading
The emperor in his new gown
Sets the fashion for the whole world
Everywhere you look
People blindly...

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So many of us are feeling blue,
Because we do not know what to do
The world we all live in every day
It has gone askew and...

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Smack the Naysayer upside the head
far fewer would have been harmed
had citizens not been disarmed -- 

Forefathers wise for Second Amendment
which Naysayers habitually make defendant

a...

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Wisdom comes with age
So the old saying goes 
But so does dementia
As the world so sadly knows.
It’s so easy to be vociferous
Brave aggressive and bold
Deferring...

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The rise and fall of civilizations
is always clearer to track in hindsight
like the stages and progression of battles in a war,
but in the trenches, in...

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It’s 2023 and the war between the sexes has reached a fevered pitch
Maybe it’s what they call 3-D chess
But whatever, the boundaries have shifted
Blurred and...

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fRaGmEnTs
landed HERE
  in time for
the twilight of
  life

…where
percussive villains
perform on
a global stage
as glowing slime
slithers
through one
  mendacious midpoint
  at a time &
earth's...

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the news breaks
the world breaks down
the sky screams savagely
the war dogs maul mercilessly
the raging rubble bounces bitterly 
the apocalyptic horses gallop giddily
the rotten roof caves...

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