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Category Archives: Anti-War
POEM: Can You Ever Halve Enough?
Can we ever afford to kill one another? It certainly seems sow. Unfortunately, when an awareness arises of the steep cost of killing, it is often too late. Sadly, we may halve our life and eat it too. Can You … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awareness, Life
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POEM: Heart Confetti
My heart breaks, particularly when US cannot brake genocide. Heart Confetti My heart Shatters A billion peaces Shuttered Once helled To gather Now veinly hoping Fore a body politic And singular victory A party to genocide And ticker tape prayed
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Heart
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POEM: Taking a Bite Out of War Crime
I am far more worried about Joe Biden’s moral feebleness than I am about any alleged physical or mental feebleness. End the genocide in Gaza! Taking a Bite Out of War Crime Get that man some dentures Grandpa Joe needs … Continue reading
POEM: The Means
As commander-in-chief Biden provides unconditional support indispensable to Israel’s genocidal actions in Gaza, he offers inconsequential advice, even “warnings,” to limit mass civilian killings. If stopping genocide, the worst crime known to man, is somehow a close call, then his … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Cowardice, Crime, Israel, Moral
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POEM: Gaza, Eat It
This poem addresses the Gazan’s plight of living under siege in an open air prison, under massive military assault, including widespread bombing of civilians and civilian infrastructure. This poem highlights the genocidal assault, particularly the mass starvation as a result … Continue reading
POEM: Bombing
Humanity is bombing. Let’s end the violence. Bombing Bombs a way Bombs aweigh Bombs a weigh Bombs away
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political Action, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Humanity, Violence
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POEM: Trifecta of Win Win Win
I wrote this poem today, MLK Day, after listening to Martin Luther King, Jr.’s speech, “Beyond Viet Nam.” Have you never herd; it’s a real gas. If you don’t like it, talk to the hand, nay, palm… Trifecta of Win … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Love, Meaning, Militarism, mlk day, Poverty, Racism
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POEM: Yours to Deicide
Wile it doesn’t make cents for some, I see humanity is one. I strongly suspect that there is only one side. Thus, in a religious sense, any won that kills other children of God is ungodly. In some sense, killing … Continue reading
Starving Palestinians — How Compassion Ate Gazans
President Biden’s posed compassion and the U.S.-Israeli genocide of Palestinians in Gaza is starving the civilian population. The generations-long military occupation, the 16-year blockade on Gaza, and the current months-long bombing campaign has created a crucible of death in Gaza. … Continue reading
POEM: Halve Truth
This poem is a parody of the infamous “You can’t handle the truth” military courtroom speech from the 1992 movie, A Few Good Men. You can view the original speech here. Many have killed and died in wars over half-truths … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Faith, Freedom, Guns, Hope, Love, Military, Questions, Responsibility, Time, Truth
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POEM: Due Doo?
The “tolerance” of snuffing other human lives continues to baffle and disturb me. This is particularly true given the shit that such lethal choices unleash. Can we love humans, awe humans, more than our attachment to such shit? This poem … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Choices, Enemies, Love, Moral
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POEM: Detente
When guns ceasefire and bombings are paused, we are still a longing weigh from peace. War is hell — not something to be won. This poem is a meditation on the accost of war, weather hot or cold. Peace — … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Business, Guns, Hell, Meditation, Sleep, War
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POEM: Attrition Verses
Much of the brutality in our world takes the form of a war of attrition, where “the more titanic of the two” calculates that they can outlast the damage to won an other. This raze to the bottom abodes well … Continue reading
POEM: Beating The Conundrum
Blessed be the peacemakers. It will take awe we have to secure peace. May the fog of war give weigh to the tsunami of love rising in the see of humanity. Beating The Conundrum The peacemakers cried Everybody for everybody … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Blessed, Conundrum, Enemies, Humanity, Insanity, Love, Peacemakers, War
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POEM: Oh Israel, Unequivocally State Fallowed Script Her
I have always admired the Torah and Old Testament perpetual reminders of “I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage,” and the precept, “You shall not oppress … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Culture, Failure, Food, God, Hell, History, Israel, Modern, Muslims, Palestine, Palestinian, People of The Book, Religion, Religious, Sacred, State, Truth, Xenophobia, Zionist
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POEM: In Dig Nation — Ode to That Lyin’ of Zionism
The UN Secretary General has called on Israel to have a humanitarian ceasefire. Israel calls for his resignation. Mean wile, The United States is resigned to complicity with war crimes in the bombing of civilians and civilian infrastructure on top … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Death, Food, Israel, Ode, Palestine, State, War, War Crimes
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POEM: Superseeding An Other
Deathly war is an unending incantation of tragedies. While one tragedy may be viewed as pivotal, as likely as knot another tragedy will supersede the earlier tragedy in quick succession. Perhaps the only surety is that two posing sides will … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Rage, War
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POEM: In Hospitable Missive
This poem was inspired by Israel’s official denial of any responsibility in the missile attack on a Palestinian hospital which resulted in the deaths of hundreds of patients, health care workers, and refugees desperately seeking what was hoped to be … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Health, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Denial, Health Care, Israel, Military, Mourning, Palestinian, Reality, Refugees, Responsibility, Truth, War
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POEM: Blessed Be Our Creator (Not There’s)
In times of war or national revenge, demonization of one’s foes is standard operating procedure, necessary for justifying mass killing and destruction of civilian infrastructure, let alone civilians. This hole affair is all the more disgusting when it is dressed … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Awe, Blessed, Conscience, Darwin, Demonization, Evil, Moral, Morality, National, Necessary Evil, Religious, War
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