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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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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

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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

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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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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

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POEM: Knows Helled

Yesterday I was able to protest the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza outside the DNC in Chicago for four hours with thousands of other. Here is a poem to the “conventional” compromised political take that genocide is a necessary evil for … Continue reading

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