A Good Eye and a Good Heart
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Who is like unto you among the nations, O Israel
A nation with a good eye and a good heart
Protecting its non-Jews as fiercely as she does her Jews
Even goi...
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Categories:
statehood, appreciation, care, heart, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
Manifest Destiny Earth First!
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Something’s missing in my lifetime.
I’m a big believer in Space Exploration
Especially when everyone is on board
But before we start, Manifest Destiny Mars
I’m thinking, as a US born citi...
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Categories:
statehood, destiny, earth,
Form: Political Verse
WHAT HURT'S?
...WHAT HURTS THE MOST?
When you tell someone you don't feel good
still they leave you in that statehood
that moment made me realize I was in falsehood
because being too good is not so good.
Wh...
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Categories:
statehood, absence, allusion, emotions, giving,
Form: Free verse
Robert Sherriff Middle East
...Robert Sherriff 08/07/1954 - Australian - Poet -Author - Singer - Actor - American Historian – Photographer
Robert Sherriff 08/07/1954 - Middle East - Remember 9/11
The conflict in the Middle E...
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Categories:
statehood, allah, child, death, evil,
Form: Bio
Salman Rushdie Goes Public
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Salman Rushdie, advocate of Palestinian statehood for forty years
Now publicly acknowledges what he greatly fears
That 'Palestine' would be run by Hamas, and be a client state of Iran ...
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Categories:
statehood, celebrity, integrity, irony, visionary,
Form: Couplet
Wings of Freedom
...Meghalaya! How I bethink thee
To groweth and developeth 'longside thy company;
Thy past gl'rious days we're heavily chain'd
By the f'reign'rs, putting thee in pain,
Thy wealth and happiness we're...
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Categories:
statehood, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Ode to Fun
...Seriousness leads to statehood
Eventually it does
Fun maintains anarchic mood
A peaceful little buzz
It helps the plants to grow
It colours up the day
It makes me want to go
Just every which w...
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Categories:
statehood, blessing, emotions, fun,
Form: Rhyme
The Face of Hope
...Over a hundred years of miracles
dating back well before statehood
Pioneers who made the desert bloom
Though no one thought they could
Fighting off constant terror attacks
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Categories:
statehood, history, holocaust, hope, jewish,
Form: Rhyme
Real Life
...Real life
We clamour to be heard for our space which invariably
will intrude on others’ space which we dismiss in a torrent of abuse
we will not listen to voices of reasonableness.
We say t...
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Categories:
statehood, anxiety, break up,
Form: Free verse
The Tragedy of 1948
...the tragedy of 1948
Israel declared statehood the west was happy
the Jews had suffered much and deserved a state
the fact that 700 thousand Palestinians lost
their homeland was overlooked.
W...
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Categories:
statehood, anti bullying, arabic, best
Form: Blank verse
Ischyron
...they wanted to express their happiness with
words, even though it
never seemed the moment would come.
The territory of greenland
has been voted yes to statehood
and the new city of
Thule will ...
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Categories:
statehood, adventure, america, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Ballade
The Gop Presidents Club
...The GOP Presidents Club
Nineteen Republicans have occupied the Oval Office since 1861.
Around the table gather GOP presidents from Lincoln to Trump,
Sipping bourbon and wine and diet cola...
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Categories:
statehood, america, education, history, patriotic,
Form: Verse
Alaska, the Last Frontier
...Alaska; the wilderness state, the last frontier:
Where majestic mountains,
Deliver streams into flowing rivers:
Down slopes covered in forests
Of Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock,
That dominates...
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Categories:
statehood, celebration, culture, education, history,
Form: Verse
Israel Stands Tall
...Theodore Herzl's, "If you will it's no dream"
Lord Balfour's declaration gave it more steam
Hebron's Massacre and Arab Riots
White Paper's Rejection and Hitler's 'Zeig-Heil-It'
Nothing dete...
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Categories:
statehood, dream, hope, independence day,
Form: Rhyme
Divide and Conquer
...Started from King Macedon
Dividing and conquering people
Come Julius Caesar and Napoleon Bonaparte
The tactic survived today
They created of nations from the states.
Sulu archipelago has been...
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Categories:
statehood, age, allegory, anger, angst,
Form: Free verse
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