War Wisdom Poems

Sonnet I

In realms of emerald hush, where sunlight strains
Through veils of green, a silent throng takes root,
A clovered congregation on the plains,
Their stoic forms a...

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Balance is difficult for me -- 
generally leaning one way 
or the other

if not oscillate
more apt to choose that
additional cold beer, 

wanting to capture sunset

squeeze...

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Waves of knives 
piercing through the barriers 
their judgement
infecting the defenses 
built up over time
claiming that's what they see, 
unknowing the backlash it will bring...

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The wise, in silence, they spend their days,
Until mistaken, and so they change their ways.
So chirp you, little birds, let the trees be shaken,
For every...

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Bring your enemy
Into your territory
Is purging within....

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Steeped in mysterious magic
fearlessly they go
an eerily mischievous bird
you’re never far from a crow

Mystical messenger of the occult
blackest black obsidian plume
baneful omen of death they...

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Are not Irish Eyes
always smiling?
IN the Blamey
at the stone – at the family
pub, celebrating life’s cheering,
brawling, grinning, deeply etching
proud ethnic tone – in the 
lilt...

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“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.” ? Albert...

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I'm way ahead of the darkness that cast shadows
& there's no looking back when moving with his light
I'm light years away so even if you're...

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A child is born,
Unknown to the gentle and harsh winds of the present.
She is loved,
She is cared, 
She is smiled upon.
She crawled the floor we...

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What a brutal sun that assaults the cliffs
   Where cacti and mescals dare to abide!
Here and there, dozens of petroglyphs
   Decorating...

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In war, you can't guess
Alliances last longer,
Or when help will cease....

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The pen
not so mighty perhaps
as men choose swords -- 

words not so powerful
enough, as men restrict
their dialogues to: Ready!
Aim! Fire!~ and mourning... 

Global warming...tectonic plates…
asteroids...

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The earth moves in circles,

satellite of a physical center -- 

the dizzy nature of paths,
every forward motion a turn,
better soon to revisit worse
were there no...

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