Imbeciles
Have you seen what's going on
in Afghanistan
and all that's gone wrong
caused by the Taliban
driving the country
into rack and ruin
with impunity
is what they're doing
it's what they've done
it would be good
to put them on the run
better yet eliminate
those Barbarians at the gate
yes it would be best
to dress each one
in a suicide vest
then blow their tiny minds
up the
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Categories:
taliban, how i feel, violence,
Form: Rhyme
A Hard Right
There are clocks turning backwards,
there are rights being lost,
you might think you’re unaffected,
but things are worse than you thought.
For your wives and your daughters,
are now property of the state;
they’ll be tracking their cycles,
and they better not be late.
For your women are now watched
by the militarized state;
The old laws have been eradicated,
cause it’s freedom,
the republican fundamentalists
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Categories:
taliban, abortion, america, anger, courage,
Form: Rhyme
Taliban Fighter
Taliban fighter
Mind in a whirl
For love of his god
Shoots teenage girl
Places his bullet
Coldly in her head
Taliban fighter
Leaves her for dead
Medieval mind
Full of bigotry and hate
With twisted views
Centuries out of date
Taliban fighter
Don't you think it odd
Although you claim
You did it for your god
This little girl
Is still alive
Very good chance
She will survive
Taliban fighter maybe
In your god's eyes
You're
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Categories:
taliban, anger,
Form: Rhyme
Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep, 2021
Now I lay me down to sleep
Dear Lord, allow me, my head to keep?
Insane Taliban, coming to our shores,
Heavy padlocks on all my doors!
If one Killer, into my house comes,
Beneath my pillows, I do have a gun.
Will use it too, without reservation!
I intend to stay alive, in this American national
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Categories:
taliban, america, courage,
Form: Rhyme
9 11 2021 Taliban Independence Day
On the date,
the Taliban create,
their government which will run the state,
will be the date,
the West will hate,
an Independence Day they'll celebrate,
the date will be,
in history,
9/11 their victory,
the birth of the Taliban country
who rose again,
to rule the same,
equality and counter claim,
the rule of cruel that they maintain,
justice found
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Categories:
taliban, america, anniversary, irony, political,
Form: Rhyme
The Withering Warrior
D irections of our lives seem futile and our hearts obstructed.
E very person, every woman, every child, every
M an has lost the freedom that was promised - now corrupted,
O bliterated by those whose rigid rules destroy our memories
C asting our will, our dreams, our freedom aside
R elinquishing our
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Categories:
taliban, betrayal, conflict, courage, freedom,
Form: Acrostic
The Conversation Between Mother and Daughter In Taliban Fraught Afghanistan
Mother, I have seen, where the world has been...
Mother, I have I have seen it clean.
The dirt and muck,
Of those who monger war.
The broken arms of Justice,
In the realm of the nether and underworlds.
The Earth has broken, and monsters,
Have crept out of Her heart.
Fear and infamy,
Famine, greed and gluttony...
Mother, why are we good people made
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Categories:
taliban, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Brexit Pandemic Climate Taliban
Remember Brexit and how it was the worst CRISIS to ever happen,
since then....
we've had a global pandemic, climate change
America replaced Trump with someone more deranged
it took 9 days for the Taliban to invade Afghanistan
the media kept saying CRISIS it appeared like Candyman
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Categories:
taliban, silly,
Form: Rhyme
How Can We Leave Them Behind
Is there a time when friendship does not count,
Where bonds forged in war are callously
forgotten
Is now the time for their suffering to willfully
discount
As a passing blight, a chore ill-gotten?
Is desperation always someone else’s burden,
To be observed but ultimately ignored,
Their fate unclear, easier to draw that curtain
To an inconvenient truth only in words
deplored.
To politician’s promises are
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Categories:
taliban, appreciation, confusion, courage, death,
Form: Quatrain
Fight For Souls
A place where darkness
Is strong and absorbs the light
With evils so wrong
No one knows what will be done
To the innocent people
Even though they were strong
A place where nasty sins
Grow fiercer than any place else
Where shadows and sorrows
Seem to pierce through the rays
The embrace of sunshine
Has seen many better days
A place where fear discourages
The pure of
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Categories:
taliban, anger, angst, anxiety, fear,
Form: Free verse
Taliban
T- Terrorists'
A- Advance
L- Leaves
I- Impenetrable
B- Blackness, thus
A- Accelerating
N- Nihilism!
© Demetrios Trifiatis
20 August 2021
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*The Taliban are "intensifying the hunt-down" of individuals who worked with the Afghan government and its allied forces, conducting "targeted door-to-door visits" and arresting or threatening family members of
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Categories:
taliban, death, fear, freedom,
Form: Acrostic
End of the World Upon Us
Smoke in the air
Fire in the sky
Mirrors all around
Shattering into a million pieces
Deception all about
Who to believe?
Madness in the air
The scent of bad craziness
Strange times indeed
All around us signs
Revelations foretell
A thousand years ago
It is in the Bible
All there
Dark Visions
Coming to life
Trump continues to rant and rave
From his headquarters of
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Categories:
taliban, america, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Couplet
Siege of Kabul
Kaboom! goes Kabul
Kabul!
Oh! It Kabooms
The Taliban's rule
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Categories:
taliban, conflict, grief, pain, sorrow,
Form: Rhyme
Taliban
T errorists
A ttacking their own people
L eaving their countrymen
I n turmoil and tatters
B efore the nation falls into
A bject anarchy
N ever to rise again.
written August 15, 2021
(in deep sorrow for the
people of Afghanistan)
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Categories:
taliban, islamic, war,
Form: Acrostic
Afghanistans Sorrow and Resilience
A land fought over from antiquity,
It's fertile plains and mountains steep,
Coveted and plundered with iniquity,
It's people slaughtered as helpless sheep.
From Alexander, through Genghis Khan,
Invading hordes without respite
Killing all to the last man,
Sowing misery and plight.
They in turn spawned ruling lords,
But the circle didn't cease,
Yet more came with thrusting swords,
No nobler reason than to fleece.
Empires came
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Categories:
taliban, angst, conflict, confusion, hope,
Form: Quatrain
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