Children War Poems

When the pungent dust
and smoke settles
on empty streets
and on the rubble strewn,
bombed out blocks -
when all colour
has been bled out
of the land
leaving a shroud
of deathly...

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Oh, Wounded Warrior.

Battle lines and battle scars
hidden in plain sight.
Many of us now asking 
was it really worth the fight?

Some of us wear uniforms.
Some of...

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This war was not born in the fields of Ukraine,
But in boardrooms, treaties, and promises betrayed.
In 1990, beneath quiet lamps and whispered words,
The West told...

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Is a picture worth a thousand words?
Is it the same with a song?
Is it worth a thousand pictures?

Who can deny the powerful images
evoked from Songs...

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Honesty 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...

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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...

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TEXAS 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...

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The 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...

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Two thousand five, the Israeli PM thought there he knew the way
HE had to get out of Gaza, it's impossible to stay
"We can't rule over...

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Every picture I’ve seen of you as a child,
You wear your hair in plaits.
A stern middle parting and two dark brown braids
Falling down on each...

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When nights are dark you’ll never see
the depths of our humanity,
but in the light of desert days
the shades of death will quite amaze.

So if you’ve...

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who's got a tourniquet?
         the world bleeds out of her limb.

she's anemic. the ship of world peace...

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The world is bleeding
We stand at the edge of a precipice,
Looking in fear on our Earth,
Boiling, bubbling, and steaming,
With pools of blood flowing.

Warplanes blanket the...

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