Peace War Poems

Limericks III - Grab Bag

Being a peace activist, I once wrote a limerick in an attempt to stop needless wars:

Of Tetley’s and V-2's
(or "Why Not...

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O’Great Nations of the West,
To you I pen my loving best,
A Warning for all Military,
Leviathan that Dragon waits for thee,

When thou thought all is well,
Plotted...

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Sifting through the things that I need versus the things that no longer serve me:

People that make me uncomfortable
People that have too many opinions about...

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O’ good woman (3)
Where’s your head gone (4)
Rolling around in other men’s beds, huh? (7)

Look what I found (4)
Your baggage unbound (3)
Should I refold the...

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For the welfare of people
This purpose to fulfill
We stand opposing threats-
For our fatherland’s will. 
For law and order, all purely made by madmen, 
Completely false
From...

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Halt who goes there? 
I am the health care scare. 
Is your name bubonic, measles or tee bee
No, that is not me.
I do not see...

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Screams, screeches, groans and wails, 
Brutalities, agonies, torture, and blood, 
Tear Gases, pallet guns, bullets and bombs
Humanity sobs, world is falling apart 

Kids are blinded
Men...

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The Gloved One 

Halt who goes there? 

The Disease 

I am the health care scare. 

The Gloved One 

Is your name bubonic, measles or tee...

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We're human beings- masters of this world;
what great accomplishments we have unfurled!
Between each other, we have kept our peace
most of the time- this virtue, we...

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As I sit my mind, it drifts away
Away and away to another day.

In another world past I cannot say
What day it is, what year at...

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When did compassion become so rare
Today’s world substantially encompassing despair
Too dependent on artificial intelligence
Forced to adapt to only what assures convenience
How can we get back...

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May my aim be quick and deadly,
may my rounds hit squarely and true,
may my blade be sharp in its cuts,
may my enemy be left screwed.

May...

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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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Where bound, O ship of state?
Fair winds and wheeling gulls
Followed you out to sea.

O Constitution, Constitution
Stout frigate in peace and war
Once steady in every sea.

What...

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Cry Quietly

Cry quietly, cry alone.
No one wants to see your pain.
No one wants to hear your moans.
You've killed your first V.C. today
And lay shaking in...

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There should be no more war,
There are none worth fighting for -
High time to buck the trend,
High time for war to end.
We must stand up...

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They had run out of vaccine and resigned

Peace spread like a mushroom cloud of goodwill

For the war on mercy there was no pill

In puzzled surrender...

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Deadly to his enemies,
confusing to his friends

While faithful to his writing,
all justified intent

Furious in times of war,
in peace his vision burns

But past the fray inside...

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Another overwhelming day passed in the pastures of plenty

The scene was tired and did not warrant a space on the news

Just one more place with...

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For 
eternal spring

Is this
War
Blood smeared 
Streets
Souls
Insanity

Proclaimed the 
Messiah
Prophet 
Of peace

The crowd 
Cheers
And 
I
Am lost
Alone?...

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