1776-the smell of smoke a
token of a battle a
war freedoms war cry
~
war tween states, country
they want dire freedom hosted
war of seventeen-
~
seventy-six year
tea crates thrown in harbor seas
fights America
07/14/25
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr.2025©
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Categories:
war, adventure, analogy, conflict, corruption,
Form: Haiku
The BirdDid not the Bird,
warn us, by his airs?
Fewer by day...more by
night – the owls survive
longer! Did not rodents
warn us? Depleted by
owls, they both now suffer.
Better men open their eyes
to Light – for, even swooping
shadows, will not long survive
such night…....
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Categories:
war, abuse, bird, christian, community,
Form: Free verse
The PacifistI do not have the answers
you seek...why ask? You know
I don’t. Besides, my answers
are not for your meek, who grow
but do not grow – reap what little
you sow!~ and already, deep down,
know.
Then, why not a firmer
hand? Why not more, a committed
heart?~ thinking...not God nor the
devil would leave one, such as
you, even...
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Categories:
war, america, conflict, confusion, courage,
Form: Free verse
The Youngwhistles blare
gun powder in the air
lead pours overhead
I can't wait to feel my bed
I line up my rifle
breathe and squeeze
my orders are to strife
I run empty so I freeze
the quit nights are haunted
this conflict was unwanted
one more tally added; I can't mask it
make sure they spell it right on my casket...
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Categories:
war, anxiety, humanity, men, military,
Form: Rhyme
Love is war
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## Love is a War
I know what happened when the love that couldn't stay away from me for even a moment became distant. In that moment, I didn't break; I felt pain within the pain, and to assert my right over it, I hunted it down. Don't ask today, the game is over, Vaishali Baskaran....
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Categories:
war, death,
Form: Narrative
WartimeHonesty versus Lies
Love versus Hate
Respect versus Contempt
Real versus Fake
Peace versus Conflict
Compassion versus Heartless
Kind versus Cruel
Calm versus Violence
Why are these wars we're fighting
They all shall have the same end
Because
When it's the Children of the Light
Versus
The Children of the Darkness
The Children of the Light will always win
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Categories:
war,
Form: Rhyme
A Lubricant Chance
Categories:
war, conflict, meaningful, metaphor, perspective,
Form: Verse
Fragile Truce
Categories:
anxiety, conflict, political, war,
Form: Lanterne
Karma Dogma
If intent and actions
are cause and effect
and influence the future
what you give is what you get
and yet
what about children
caught in the crossfire
when very young
murdered in man's mire
they have not yet begun
to live
and love is all they have to give
so much for karma
symbolised by the lotus flower
but whereabouts is it
in their most needed hour
forsaken by fortune
they...
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Categories:
war, children, death, how i
Form: Rhyme
TEXAS FLOODING WARSTEXAS FLOODING WARS
(Apropos Of A Lesson Of Nature)
The flood waters came,
leaving lost lives washed away;
eyes flooded with tears:
Nature herself, warring with
collateral disaster:-
So many children
won’t be thirsty anymore;
flood waters drowned them:-
Let us thirst for quenching peace:
our human nature flooded:-
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Categories:
war, allegory,
Form: Tanka
Nuclear WarThe alpha males
stand at the precipice of power
each attempting to prove
They are the greatest
Resting on the backs of stupidity
a nuclear war
one percent chance
of total annihilation
of life on the planet
As we destroy
our ecological systems
ninety-nine percent
of the world dying
from nuclear radiation
and the direct...
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Categories:
war, conflict, environment, planet,
Form: Narrative
The Face of War, 1941, Salvador DaliO moon,
the blood-rose pearl
of my aching soul,
the ghostly seer of hourglass woes ~
heed these wistful words ~
forgive the dreadful quivers
between cacophonous quiescence,
tremors within lungs of lament,
spears of piercing p a i n ...
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Categories:
war, angst, metaphor, poetry,
Form: Ekphrasis
Here Smells HellHell smells on this nice land
Land where there is severe killing
Killing of innocent people
People hating their neighbors
Neighbors with grudge
Grudge against everything
Everything has decayed.
Decayed, as morals are in danger
Danger of living on this land
Land with endless fire
Fire from the morning until in the evening
Evening, when death squadrons chop and shoot
Shoot and set ablaze fellow...
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Categories:
war, abuse, conflict, hate, horror,
Form: Free verse
Revised Nursery Rhyme No 3 - Little Miss Tough
Little Miss Tough
Sat on her duff
whining ‘bout ‘The Amerikan Way’
Along came a missile
...
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Categories:
war, america, fear, patriotic, perspective,
Form: Rhyme
The Virgin DeadThe seeds of war are planted
in the soil of greed
within the garden of an unholy trinity.
Children of the poor sent off to war
to weave the satin feathers
of a murder of political crows.
The war machine is a stomping beast
spitting out bones
vomiting over the centuries.
The children of the poor
taking their last ride
to the heart of...
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Categories:
war,
Form: Rhyme
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