War World Poems

time travel’n peace —
ought we find rather death,
war — tread on me.

funny the face, the companionship
of outer space, the innocence
of the sun and sky.

she still...

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Please stay 
I think of you everyday 
And cry when I lay
All I did was obey
Whatever you say
Is this the price I pay
You trying to...

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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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I will begin my story with this concise summary,
Of the amazing things that have happened to me;

After I had lost a home, where I'd lived...

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The Gigantic Powerful,
The Omni-mighty,
The Omni-present
Covid-19 has come
can kill anytime anyone
infecting the lungs

Oh! Shut the mouth!
Take a mask!
Don't speak anymore!
Otherwise, the virus will infiltrate into your...

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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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[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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Fear fear fear
No more I want to hear
It is getting too much for many its clear

Test tests tests
The more you look the more you find
This...

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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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IN TIMES LIKE THESE
WE ALL NEED TO COME TOGETHER
SOME PEOPLE HAVE COME TOGETHER
WITH UNITY AND IN LOVE HELPING THE COMMUNITY
TRUSTING IN THE ALMIGHTY GOD ABOVE
ALL...

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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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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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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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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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"CORONA IS"


the virus now
and at night
mothers hold their young.
I sit in front of this 
typewriter,
inside these walls and 
remember all those times 
this has happened...

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Corona-virus, appeared a biggest ever demon,
swallowing humans everyday, few dozens.
Opened mouth as broad as the continents six.
Fails narrowing it, all the human tricks.

Frightened all, can't...

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I wake up
find myself

wandering in a hot dessert
baking in the malign rays 
of a dying sun

I realized 
that i am walking around 

a post nuclear...

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