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Category Archives: Peace
POEM: Mirror Palestine
The U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza is a horrific failure of humanity and godliness. We must look unflinchingly at what this means for US. Mirror Palestine Mirror, mirror, behind a wall Who is beautiful One and all Helled Up to the … Continue reading
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Tagged Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Palestinian
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POEM: At Last Picked
In the era of Team Cruel, life can be in hospitable. At Last Picked There is allot Of blood sports In the schoolyard of life And death Teeming with God’s children A lot Left wanting To be picked Last
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POEM: Seize Fire Wow
Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat has been assassinated by Israel after being openly put on a hit list last October. Hossam is the latest in over 200 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza. In … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Israel, Palestine, Palestinian, Zionist
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POEM: Awe the Answers Hour in Nature
Nature provides lots of answers when we are stuck in our heads and big boxes, we call home. Awe the Answers Hour in Nature I shook my ahead Soully pondering That space between mine years I have Never won An … Continue reading
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POEM: Landing On, Peace for Palestine
Thank you, Ziad, for sharing your father’s story with me. I am inspired by his deep connection to the land and people of Palestine. Drinking a cup of olive oil each morning and valuing the olive trees as more than … Continue reading
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POEM: Bent Knee Walking
I see conflict as an unavoidable aspect of life. Even with my best intentions I end up harming others in various ways. Certainly, I can greatly limit this through effort and attention on my part. Still, there is a chasm … Continue reading
POEM: Meat Our Future
It’s a bout the bought ensouled. We are not merely bouncing meat. Meat Our Future Violence is unacceptable Accept when we do it That soul exception As we meat Our future
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POEM: The Biggest Flail Ever
War is a failure of humanity at so many levels. Certainly, mass violence favors authoritarians and constricts and degrades all things progressive in the body politic. The Biggest Flail Ever With ravenous waist Warmongers Gut it out A triumph of … Continue reading
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POEM: Mystic Ink 2.0 (to point: oh!)
As I have moved into retirement, I noticed on my facebook profile that my “employment” was outmoded. So, I have created a new busyness: Mystic Ink 2.0 (to point: oh!). As a little background, in 2011, I decided to write … Continue reading
POEM: Courting Civil Disobedience
One of the things that I would like to do in this new year is organize my life in such as way that I can commit civil disobedience and risk jail time while minimizing the destructive effect on other parts … Continue reading
POEM: The Problem with Violence
Violence begets violence. Violence begs violence. Violence gets violence. The Problem with Violence To every axing There is an equal And opposite axing It only takes A wile
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POEM: Unentitle Fight
Today is another good day to end the U.S.-Israeli genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. This poem goes out to the Palestinian people. Unentitle Fight U.S.-Israeli genocide Round nein! The bell He of the beast Verses people of awe … Continue reading
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POEM: Fratricide
In case you didn’t no, fratricide is the killing of one’s brother, or sister, or any member of won’s own, such as children of God. O Israel, do not bring a bout a hollowed future echoing with grief. Fratricide We … Continue reading
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POEM: Needle-less to Say, ESC Late
Israel has embraced 1984 doublespeak with it’s “de-escalation through escalation.” Our addiction to violence as the only response to violence spawns absurd levels of destruction. We need to inject nonviolence into confrontations, or be drug to war. Needle-less to Say: … Continue reading
Posted in Anti-War, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Addiction, Culture, Israel, Nonviolence, Violence, War
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POEM: Oddly, Never Out of Whack
The warring mob bosses speak with murderous necessity about “my enemy made me do it.” A ledged human freedom is disappeared. An even more assure bet is that the mob bosses are, oddly, never out of whack. So, if you … Continue reading
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Tagged Enemies, Freedom, Sleep
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POEM: Brand Knew
Every war starts with something to the effect of: “This is a new kind of war, a new kind of enemy that we have never seen before.” Spoiler alert: war is the same owed shit recycled. Anew kind, of war, … Continue reading
POEM: Fort Knox Elementary
JD Vance at the Vice Presidential debate became the latest exemplar of the hollow response to school shootings, offering thoughts and preyers, and fortresses, and nothing else in between — except offering up our children to gun terror. This poem … Continue reading
Posted in News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Children, God, Guns, Kids, Silence
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POEM: Phone Smarts
Cell phones, so-called “smart” phones, seem to have wraith-like abilities, sucking the life out of us. I yearn for peace and quiet, and these beeping devices grab hour, a tension. This poem is owed, to such a diction… Phone Smarts … Continue reading
PROTEST –NO DEFENSE OF GENOCIDE — Ohio Air National Guard base
On Tuesday, September 10, 2024, Veterans for Peace and the Northwest Ohio Peace Coalition held a protest against U.S. support and complicity in the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. We stopped entrance to the gate of the 180th Fighter Wing … Continue reading
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Tagged Defense, Genocide, National, Protests, Veterans
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POEM: Unschooled Shootings
Georgia on my mind. Unschooled Shootings As law abiding sits in trouble An other School shooting A nation whys The soul thing That stops A bad man With a gun More often then not Is a body politic Riddled with … Continue reading
Posted in Health, News, Peace, Poems, Political and Philosophical Musings
Tagged Holy, Law, Mind, Soul
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