OF FOOD AND WARRING: A TANKA QUINTET
OF FOOD AND WARRING
(A TANKA QUIENTET)
Juxtaposed bombs fall…
Food’s down, starvation rising…
Death…collateral…
Thus, war’s new reaping of death:
Food uprooted and destroyed:-
Food’s an enemy,
Seeking to eat, deadly:
Starvation killing:-
Thus, be war’s new strategy:
Piled skin covered skeletons:-
Ironically,
All this is merely Breaking News!
War’s politicking:
Pontificating power;
Not nourishing peace and love:-
May these fruitful thoughts
Excite your hunger for peace
And its divine love:-
Not
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Categories:
warring, corruption, death, extended metaphor,
Form: Tanka
ANSWERING A WARRING QUESTION
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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Categories:
warring, corruption, money, peace, perspective,
Form: Free verse
THE ABSURDITY OF WARRING FOR PEACE
Evilly absurd,
Bombing lives doesn’t win peace;
Just wishful power:-
War and peace are antonyms.
You can’t make them synonyms:-
War can not bring peace,
Just collateral damage,
And high death rates:-
Peace comes with labors of love,
Nourished by God’s healing grace:-
War only knows hate,
Bombing homes, schools, and churches,
Filled with peaceful lives:-
When will this world ever be
A world rooted in love’s peace?!
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Categories:
warring, allegory, death, life, love,
Form: Tanka
WARRING FOR PEACE: OXYMORONIC!
Where there is war,
There can be no peace;
No matter who or where you are,
We must, as one, tame this vicious beast:-
Where there is war,
There can be no peace;
No matter who are where you are
Chanting "War For Peace", must cease:-
It's like a shark with an octopus' head in its jaw,
Changing to t it prey,
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Categories:
warring, allegory, hope, metaphor, moving
Form: Rhyme
Stop The Warring Please
Please talk, keep talking
You leaders of our time, please
Stop the warring.
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Categories:
warring, engagement, humanity, leadership, perspective,
Form: Haiku
War of the Soul
Pride jumped into a frightening battle,
Too selfish, this war was never settled,
Almost so dark, felt like stars would rattle.
Inside, pride’s heart and spirit were mettled.
Pride rejected kindness and charity,
She listened to the dark world of conceit,
While I avoided her sincerity,
Knowing her dark vengeance was bittersweet.
Refusing to heed soul’s humility,
Pride, she’d surely bleed the murkiest grief,
Battling
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Categories:
warring, pride,
Form: Quatrain
The Warring Generals of Sudan
The warring Generals of Sudan
Yesterday, they were friends,
Sharing the cake of power together.
“This kind of friendship never ends”
One corpse did whisper.
Today they fight over the cake of power.
Where has their love gone this hour?
Two guns lock horns,
And civilians suffer.
Our piece of peace has torn.
Guns ring the bell
Of peace. We march to hell.
Generals,
Of wars.
Their murals,
Peacefully painted
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Categories:
warring, africa,
Form: Rhyme
Warring Humanity-
Was a war battle was lost
Calling all soldiers to walk
There was a war
Everyone was shot
Cease fire now
Everyone was shot
Friendly fire also
Who? are the enemy
Everyone?
11/12/20
Written words by James Edward Lee Sr©2020.
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Categories:
warring, analogy, anxiety, war,
Form: Free verse
Warring Warriors
Warring wounded Warriors winded,
as they stand by the blood-stained shore;
Battalions breathily bruised and bended,
as they begin to march on for more…
Evil encounters evolve and enslave,
for their conquering captains do command;
As demons devour and deprave,
decompositional defaults within their demand.
Lachrymal lonely landscapes lament,
as deceptions and illusions take control;
Edacious entombment evokes,
evil incarnates
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Categories:
warring, conflict, evil, god, war,
Form: Alliteration
Warring With Ghosts
You begin to know life when you stop fighting with your past
preventing you from living your life
and wasting your valuable time
warring with ghosts
In a society where only material things are valued
they fall apart when confronted with the truth of Life
God is love, love created us all but if you don’t believe in
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Categories:
warring, love,
Form: Free verse
Warring Angels-Prayers For Lia and Demetrios
In your darkness you will find the light,
Within the light you will find the Lord…
Warring Angels assemble to unite,
Raising their golden shield and sword…
All that is evil must come to an end,
Famine, sickness and raging war…
The Angels are preparing to defend,
The Lord commands with a loving pour…
Stars are aligning before the battle,
Spiritual star seeds will
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Categories:
warring, dedication, health, love,
Form: Sonnet
The Warring Heights
“Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish”
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Categories:
warring, america, christian,
Form: Rhyme
The Warring Heights
“Or those eighteen who died when the tower in Siloam fell on them—do you think they were more guilty than all the others living in Jerusalem? I tell you, no! But unless you repent, you too will all perish”
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Categories:
warring, sin,
Form: Rhyme
Warring Factions
A land of ice and fire,
a boundless border between.
Two inseparable contradictions
Forever cursed to exist side by side.
O land of ice and fire
your attention should be on the third faction.
For they are the true threat.
The land of temptation and greed, the land of allure,
The land of discounts marches upon both
and all shall be converted.
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Categories:
warring, 11th grade,
Form: Free verse
We Are Warring Against Satan and His Evil Hordes-
We are at war;
Waring powers, seek to over throw;
A battle wages on;
Against Satan and his hordes;
Darlings therefore, put on every piece;
Every piece of God's armor;
so you will be able to resist the enemy in the time of evil;
Then after the battle you will still be standing firm;
Beloved put on the armor;
So that you
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Categories:
warring, adventure, conflict, hope, war,
Form: Free verse
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