War Warming Poems

Comrades,the world wars are the deadliest conflicts in human history               ...

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Comrades,the world wars are the deadliest conflicts in human history               ...

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Asked an NPR journalist
of U.S. soldiers
damaged in Afghanistan
direct fire
for one hundred everydays,

"Was it worth it?"

"I can't answer that question."

She asks more hesitantly again
of another veteran,

"Was...

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These are prophetic poems and apocalyptic poems ...



The Vision of the Overseer’s Right Hand
by Michael R. Burch

“Dust to dust ...”

I stumbled, aghast,
into a valley of...

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I'm Olive, a once flatulent cow.
Spinach is all I eat now.
That silly green grass
is a thing of the past,
for a new wind is blowing this...

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I hold a piece of the world in one hand
And my confidence on my chest.
I’m in a one woman band,
But I still give everyone my...

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BECAUSE

You opened up my eyes,
They turned towards the skies,
Clouds higher than I’d ever seen
The grass so green.
BECAUSE,
You opened up my eyes
You offered me first prize,
To...

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Burn
by Michael R. Burch

for Trump

Sunbathe,
ozone baby,
till your parched skin cracks
in the white-hot flash
of radiation.

Incantation
from your pale parched lips
shall not avail;
you made this hell.
Now burn.

Keywords/Tags: burn,...

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65 years from now
My silence will be loud
You dare not care when I had sung
for you only listen under defcon one

65 years from now
You will...

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As the seasons move
The fire within grows
Burning my eyes away
My soul races in part
Loves is a change
Change is a war 
And war is love
Why must...

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