World War Poems

Thunder and lightning
AND men against man 
Stardust and White Fire
 Man versus Man
the world is filled with Corruptions
 why must Man fight cuz
 there's...

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A random chapter is being written on history’s page 
Of the greatest war being fought in this age
This unique war isn’t against anyone 
This battle...

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Now we are in a battle turf
A big warfare is on its way,
Whole world has been sobbing
We lost all the hope of ray.

People have been...

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UNWELCOME CORONAVIRUS
At a blow of the wind from nowhere no one knows
Into the realm of the unprepared spices that knows,
With supremacy in technology, medicine, research...

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Feathered Fiends
by Michael R. Burch

Fascists of a feather
flock together.

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Alternate:

Conformists of a feather
flock together.

Keywords/Tags: fascists, flock, together, fascism, conformists, nazis, blackshirts, brownshirts, dictator, tyrant, autocrat, despot,...

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The wheels of the world
are grinding to a halt
While everyone tells you
everyone else is at fault
Everyone else is
nowhere to be found
Then just like the nursery...

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[More paraphrase than translation of a Post WWII Korean jazz ballad by the Kim Sisters, sung mournfully as if for an Asian gangster film noir.]

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Exhaling...

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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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At a blow of the wind from nowhere no one knows
Into the realm of the unprepared spices that knows 
With supremacy in technology, research, medicine...

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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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Radio Poem
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

You, little box, held tightly
to me
during my escape,
so that your delicate tubes do not break;
carried from house...

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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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I can't help but wonder, what am I supposed to wonder about?
Society has put certain rules into play, that I can seem to wrap my...

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Coronavirus strikes the earth
Headstones rise in Satan's curse
Invading life with every breath
Nomadic in its deadly quest
America its target goal
Silently to take control

Pray for all who...

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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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Der Abschied (“The Parting”)
by Bertolt Brecht
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch

We embrace;
my fingers trace
rich cloth
while yours encounter only moth-
eaten fabric.
A quick hug:
you were invited to...

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This World waged two wars

Many nations to involve
More people to die

Same this Corona 

May be not by the hands of UNO
But through the noses of...

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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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Summer Haze
by Michael R. Burch

The hazy, smoke-filled skies of summer I remember well;
farewell was on my mind, and the thoughts that I can't tell
rang bells...

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