Tripoli Poems - Poems about Tripoli

Your Hands Are Not Clean, America

...Your lips preach freedom,
but your hands drip with the oil of innocent blood.
You speak of peace,
but your bombs have baptized the earth in chaos.

I have seen your flags fly high
in Baghdad, i...

An Invitation to the Dance

...We’re in the Souk in somewhere like Baghdad,
but not so land-locked. Tripoli, more like.
“He stole an apple – catch the little tyke!”
The hue and cry goes up. They chase the lad,
whose crime is h...

L M N O P Q R S T

...Layla, Lilly and Lollypop lollygagged through life
Making musical merry mischief for Mr. Farmer’s wife
Nestling near nasty Nicholas’ notoriously sharp needy knife
Optimizing oscillating orneriness...

shipwreck

...Shipwrecked 


He was Japanese, smiled politely 
and took his shoes off
I smiled also, it was the right thing
for us to do,  shipwrecked sat
in a rubber raft of the type leaving
Tripoli 
Lib...

Deployed to Kuwait

...The camel musk entered my tent today 
a quiet sand storm arouse the warm 
wind settled outside white garments 
blew in the breeze i could hardly collect 

myself my thoughts were on American 
t...

Just Another African

...Just another African
Once full of sun and hope
Train to Venice from Milan
At the end of your rope
Horrors seen at just 19
Crammed onto a flatbed
Desert burning red
Human carrion in the sand
O...

Mafioso Mouse

...There is a famous shore of Tripoli
Extremely far from Little Italy
  Holy Montezeuma
  Did you hear the rumor
Mafioso Mouse ~ now in Kissimmee...

This Ancient Heart

...POEM " ANCIENT HEART " by martin gedge

Tears will fall from aging eyes to drop into the sea
and turn to stone from the depths of Rome to the shores or Tripoli
and lights of fire to burn the skie...

Internet Iniquity, Injustice and Impertinence

...Iniquity, impunity, injustice invade Internet interaction
Alongside odious obliteration and cunning coercion
Facilitated and militated with unabashed attention and intention   

To minutest detai...

Aeon

...Old man looking back in time 


He remembers it well when the Mediterranean was 
rich grassland had many lakes and the people
living there never starved. 
A mountain ridge between Spain and Afr...

Tripoli

...Fray full fantasies fill frightful phrases. Sight of faint light fades thru hills of forgotten shade. Sweat lingers to slidepanfulls of forgotten tide. Only lesions of rain play spiteful thru forbidd...

Cursed African

...21st January 2013 at the US capitol
Was the day men saw their idol.
He stood, brisk and spry,
And his order, no man could defy.
Africans and Caucasians stood in awe
For Obama was indeed a man of...

Vacation

...Vacation 

I have been invited to the golden coast of Spain
White beaches blue sea, cooling in the sun.

The Mediterranean postcard beauty, tempting
It is also full of thousands of dead bodies....

Hillary As Envoy To Tripoli

...For bi-partisan gift to Hillary,

Trump might name her envoy to Tripoli.

If she flubbed for heavens sake,

"What difference would it make!"

Except some more well-deserved pillory!

Robert...

The Marching Band Played John Philip Sousa

...The marching band played John Philip Sousa

My daddy held my hand

Lining the streets elbows to my head

My daddy put me on his shoulders, where I could stand

~

The marching marines stopp...

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