Political War Poems

ANSWERING A WARRING QUESTION

Why must there always be war?
Can peace not be without war?
Yes, but with less money:
Leaving power mongers
Less oppressive over
Poor you and me:-
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Idiosyncratic Introspection 

Fear turned inward can only eventually present outward in its expression 
Tears are trepidatious when dealing with years of emotional repression 
Lear as...

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As if these lands were separate,
As if our minds weren't one,
As if land and sea were dichotomy, of darkness and the sun. 

Pangea's cleavage tells...

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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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      Border surveillance female scouts 
      their warnings unheeded about

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     truce 
    fragile; 
a ceasefire 
 unlikely to 
     hold.
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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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I hear voices in my head,
I touch pain 
On every television
Except the typical symbols
Of hegemony
Except in a white building 
Miles and miles away,
I touch pain!

For...

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The power depends on the people’s will
They were taught to believe this at high school
But as practice has shown, powers like to kill
And the people...

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As spoken by the Voice of Wisdom

O House of Israel,
Heed the sound of the wind that carries ancient truth across the sands of time.
Once you...

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I write not with anger, but with the burden of sorrow
that cannot be cleansed by diplomacy nor buried beneath the noise of geopolitics.
For in Gaza,...

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collaterally speaking...

war is like plowing...
don't like peace...hell!...bomb-plow it:
life...collateral......

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A FAITH-BASED PERSPECTIVE
OF WAR AND ITS DESTINY 

Murder is a crime
Unless it’s in war;
Then it’s all legal:
A death penalty
For the innocent:-

Our reality,
Is not of heaven;
Wars...

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Thoughts On War Questions

When is war righteous?
Isn’t murder a crime?
Does not war murder?
Can’t collateral
Death be a crime too?: 

War can’t be righteous;
Murder is a crime:-
Wars...

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