Violence Poems

Based on L. Cohen’s Field Commander Cohen
Dedicated to my mentor and friend Z.M.  

Field Commander Zed, 
he was a poet not a spy, 
firm believer
that his duty
was to fill the void with beauty
of his metaphors and rhyme,
before
it is infiltrated
with...Read More

I tried to take the higher ground, I’m sorry, I just can not
The words you spoke have ricocheted and now I’m deep in thought
Did you hold her closer when she faltered? or did you take a verbal shot?
Did you place...Read More

CREATION OF MENTAL ILLNESS
STARTS WITH WHAT WE SEE.
PROGRAMED LONG ENOUGH 
YOU'RE EXPECTED TO BELIEVE.

PROGRAMED TO HATE
RIGHT BEFORE YOUR EYES.
MAIN STREET MEDIA 
BLATANTLY TELLING LIES.
WILLINGLY AND DELIBERATE
CRIMINALLY ORGANIZED.
OUNCE YOU SEE AND UNDERSTAND
QUESTION YOURSELF WHY.

WHO REALLY STANDS TO BENEFIT
WITH YOUR ALTERED VIEWS.
THINKING...Read More

Once upon a time in Erin land,
the sun smiled on the people 
the rains communed peacefully with thunderstorms
Erin flowed with palm wine and palm oil, 
And her children drank to their fill  
Oba Adeniran, was a great king, 
loved...Read More

There is rumbling in the skies
It’s not thunder
Babies sound a chorus of cries
Where is mother?

They have mastered the drill
To take cover
Prayer the only sanctuary, they stay still
Survive or wander

There is no heat to keep them warm
There is just rapid fire
They...Read More

Liberal, simplified and abridged translation for speedy daily practice. 

Released into Public Domain. 

The Bodhisattva of Boundless Will arose from his seat, bared his right 
shoulder, turned towards the Buddha with joined palms and asked: 
“World Honored One, we yearn...Read More

In the valley where
Life is lived as intended
Happiness is widespread
As far as any eye can see.
Joy and love reign
As peace and blessings
Fall from above.
Minor disagreements though
Few and far between,
Met with acceptance and
Understanding are 
Respectfully resolved with
Knowledge and equality
For the good...Read More

Freedom of speech
is less about freedom from suppression
when more about freedom toward mutual dialogue,
cooperatively held impression
to co-invest in active democratic hope.

Perhaps this is why
First Amendment non-violent communication values
grow in heart-felt significance
as Second Amendment rights to bear violent arms
recede in multicultural...Read More

Real heroes...sacrifice their lives...
Giving protection and peace in our hives..
Secular country,lost wealth of 42 warriors...
Leaving their families with heavy heart,
Almighty showers blessing in heaven.
Devastation of silent Pulwama with violence,
Changed Valentine day to black day...
Brought lump in our throat no way..
Bloods...Read More

     snake slithers
    venomous strike
       echo hisses...Read More

Black Satin

Clouds of fascism, blocking out the light of diversity 
Sheets of rain drowning out the voices of crusaders

Socialist artists with paint brushes and black paint,
White wash over the history between God and man

Enforcers try to use fear to drive...Read More

An important truth of non-profit cooperatism,
as contrasted with for-profit corporatism,
is democratic wisdom
of co-investing capital and equity and interdependence,
giving from a healthy egalitarian heart
is also receiving a wealthier, more resilient, bilateral mind,
mind and body fullness,
ego- and eco-therapeutic resonance.

While true of all...Read More

Brain isn’t working, 
sawdust between my ears,
All the connections broken, 
can’t go through the gears,
I really am stupid,
more dense than railroad tracks,
A haze has descended, 
at least covering up the cracks.

Was sharp as a razor, 
just the other day,
Now all...Read More

In Myanmar,
We wish to be writers.
But our pens have been snatched.
Because of just being Rohingya.

In Myanmar,
we wish to be doctors.
But we have been banned from higher study.
Because of just being Rohingya.

In Myanmar,
we wish to be businessmen.
But we have trade license...Read More

Where is the mass transit sending people to?
Dispatch of souls to places unknown
See the loading ramp down by the barracks
A place to herd them into vehicles
What type vehicles and for what use?
A bus to drive them to a spar resort
A...Read More

born beneath a tangle of stars

cream cry Hamal

blood-warm straw

away in a manger

the whistle of distant collie

 

but all too soon

a frosty breeze chews the nostrils

the farmed proletariat

mass in trucks with fear

spindle limbs hacked, knife hung on a hook

 

dragging her...Read More

…incongruous car

 

alien

 

shiny-red, carwash-clean

 

not the usual

sharp edges

 

not stolen, like glances

not abandoned, like puppies

not torched, like memories

not peeling, like marriage

not rusting, like opportunity

not dumped, like dreams

not burnt out, well…

 

his coat was left on a rock

overlooking the industrial...Read More

British people asked for 30 minutes to eat their breakfast before being evacuated from Terrorist Threat.

When in Britain I like to sit down
To a full English breakfast when I go into town
With sausages bacon eggs and beans
And a cup of...Read More

apprehensive to walk these alleyways
before me i see violence and filth
colliding in the shadows of night
disheveled piles of trash strewn about
emptied cans tipped towards houses
fences fighting to stand together
gathered only by the gates that keep them
holding back nothing but time
inscriptive...Read More

Anger
surrounded and penetrated
by glowing Awareness..anger
is righteous and serves
to right apparent wrongs..

when anger is unleashed
with cloaked Awareness
we meet with suffering
extending the dream..

nevertheless
all is Awareness whether
Awareness acts as anger
or we suffer to waken......Read More

"I will miss you!" was her wail,
She was only sixteen, after all,
Her boyfriend was going to gaol,
Some bloke had died in a gun brawl.

She was only sixteen after all,
Her boyfriend was not all that smart,
Some bloke had died in a...Read More

      More books, less guns
      more love, less violence
      more culture, less "gyms"
     more democracy, less dictatorship
    ...Read More

I heard from PrimeAryan DT
that socialism kills nations.

I thought it was fascist totalitarianism
that killed nations,
the lack of democratic social intelligence,
social investment,
non-violent communication,
restorative, 
therapeutic 
win/win social justice. 

My grandparents,
at least on my mother's side,
who seemed ancient and fragile to me,
often opined,
"When...Read More

The noise of battle raged all around
distant guns, the smell and the sound
mingled with fear, lost hope and death
scars on the wounded- those who are left

The young, the old, forgotten men
lie in the earth, graves in scores of ten
friend, brother,...Read More

The repair man went to fix the television at the old woman's house. It took him thirty minutes of messing and cursing to do it. With a grin and press of the remote, he said, 'Sorted.' 

The old woman grinned...Read More