War Wall Poems

Tear down this wall

And put an end to this

Cold War

Said the then 

President of the U.S.A

Ronald Reagan 

To the U.S.S.R leader 

Premier Gorbachev 

Only for...

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23)   Both Red China and Russia have war vessels on the Bering Sea,
         in international...

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9)   The Chinese spy balloons, Tick Tock, letting them buy up farm land 
       next to our...

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Though just a wall
      or so it's deemed
    
    She's kept alive
  ...

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Today or Yesterday

Today the gas price is over 5.00. 
We struggle now to decide what to pay? 
The food bill, 
the rent bill, 
or the...

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I cried at the Wall today
I can’t explain why.
These were men, boys, who lost
their lives for me.
I never met them, I never will.
But their sacrifice,
their...

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Marital brick wall
collateral Castration
Suspended sex scenes...

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Die Maske des Bösen (“The Mask of Evil”)
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

A Japanese woodcarving hangs on my wall—
the mask of an ancient...

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Would you like to plant a tree
In Jerusalem
Will they finally agree
On Jerusalem
Will the loners listen psalms 
From Jerusalem
Will the rockets miss the walls
Of Jerusalem
Will the...

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i woke
up hard
ly bare
ly but
think
ing

that
time
as time
goes by
steal
ing a

line
by say
ing play
it play
it Sam
then

my
mind re
members
see
ing
for

the first
time that
oh so
famous
ly Dali
hang

ing on
a wall
at MO
MA
war
ped

as
my
son a
nd i had
to get
close

r 
to
see
what
time...

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Vietnam War Memorial Wall
58,318

Victory
Into
End
The
Names
At
Memorial

Worshiping
Americans
Remembering

Meaningful 
Everlasting
Memory
Of
Real
Individuals  
A
Love

Written
All
Lost
Lives

Contest Two: Your Best Poem that is trophy worthy Two
Sponsored by: Tania Kitchin
Dated Entered: 10/01/2019

I believe this poem is...

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‘Ossi’, what Western side likes them to call,
East returning complements with ‘pushy’,
No more stands there the brick-and-mortar wall,
Love’s lost still in old animosity.  

The...

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The Wall


I walked past the wall, my head held low.
My father made it home; no one’s there I know.

But I saw him there, a man...

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Fenced around, locked up in your own place.
                hundred years...

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On the one hand, there is a remarkable beauty                ...

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