GOD'S FLOWERSGOD'S FLOWERS
We're not buds of war,
we're the flowers of God,
scented with his love.
The world is God's garden.
We must fruit it with world peace:-
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Categories:
war, allegory,
Form: Tanka
SLEEPING AND WAKINGSLEEPING AND WAKING
We sleep in God's peace,
Why wake up in Satin's wars?
Let's wake how we sleep!...
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Categories:
war, allegory,
Form: Senryu
ERUPTING WORLD WARSPandemic warring,
Human nature’s volcanic
Lava flow of hate;
Scorching love with agony:
Her world’s peace flowing away:-
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Categories:
war, allegory,
Form: Tanka
A War Beneath SkinCells held secret ballots in my bones,
voting for mutiny in whispers.
Cancer, that drunk architect,
scribbled collapse into my blood's blueprint.
They built black gardens in my lungs,
where breathing became a treasonous act.
Tumours whittled my ribs into broken bridges,
pinned eviction notices on my veins.
Every chemo drip was a gamble—
waging war against a traitor
that wore my own face.
Hair fell...
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Categories:
war, cancer,
Form: Free verse
Place By the SeaI once had a special place by the sea;
My favorite place for God and me.
The only sounds I heard were the roarings
of the sea and the still small voice of God.
The sea gulls flocked by the sea cliffs.
And the big cargo ships from far eastern
Shores slowly flowing under the Golden
Gate Bridge was always a sight...
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Categories:
christian, water, world war
Form: Free verse
Eight decades'Eight decades past world war two was at its last gasp.'
Parades were to folow.' Nazi Germany was beaten hollow
Like a drum..'Some scenes echo.' And make me dumb my
Mouth, silent my eyes observe the violence shaky screened
Whirrs my mind.' On the real actions of nazis and horrifc
Finds.' Humans dehumanised stacked like sides of pork
Or cords of...
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Categories:
war, education,
Form: Rhyme
I’m a Drone, Angel of DeathRevenge is mine
(Inspired by the war in Ukraine)
My homeland is ablaze below
I’m watching from above
Invading wolf packs steal the show
It’s death I’m speaking of
They fill the space in endless stream
No end to foreign horde
One cannot wake from ugly dream
Of blood and gore, oh, Lord
I am a drone, men put me forth
The shield of the oppressed
Avenging...
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Categories:
war,
Form: Rhyme
Trolls, Bots and Spidered WebsThrough false truth, the Rus reclaims hegemony,
Farming trolls to be enrolled,
'Neath bridges, clowns, see enemies,
Puking riddles on those tolled.
Then the bots deliver the hurl,
Regurgitate into the net,
Till truth is common as a pearl,
Yet what you see is what you get.
Spidered webs entangle yonder,
The language largely modeled,
And artificial minds are left to ponder,
Which words are...
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Categories:
war, allusion, america, corruption, immigration,
Form: Rhyme
They Named Me ZeusFrom East to West
let my servant's trumpet
announce this victory
over those who defied me;
no Greek dares to fight me:
I am their uttermost deity!
They named me Zeus
and look to me for guidance,
I carry the thunderbolt
and I strike all enemies with vengeance;
they fell by the dozen
in the battlefield below Athens,
the ones who survived will challenge me...
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Categories:
war, character, dedication, endurance, history,
Form: Rhyme
LIFE SCENENever spoke
About the things
I can do or would do
Always told you
About what I've done
Some right and some wrong.
I never let my flaws
Weigh me down
Right from birth
Right from my mother's womb
I've been striving for authenticity not perfection
Not letting my imperfections take over me.
Like my mother
Never neglected me
Amidst my imperfections
She knows my...
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Categories:
war, africa, care, children, community,
Form: Epic
ANZAC poemfrom the cities,
from the towns.
from the farms,
and from all around.
they swarmed in their droves
to sign their names away
to a story that was golden.
to a story that was sold.
so it was said to them;
"you`ll be home in time to sit around the Christmas tree."
"don't be touched by the coward's hand."
"stand up and be a...
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Categories:
remember, war,
Form: Free verse
Hope nailed to the cross
"After Auschwitz, there is no poetry" - Theodor W. Adorno
hope nailed to the cross
mankind at its darkest hour
there's no forgetting
AP: Honorable Mention 2025
Posted on April 23, 2025...
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Categories:
war, abuse, evil, hope, men,
Form: Haiku
Echo Chamber
Categories:
red, sound, war,
Form: Haiku
created from wara rude boys awakening for paris jackson
the first taste of water was bothered
in sought minds lost
walked was the way
into darkness's hold
hold of myself leaving time
to know when time
that awaits the mind
leaping towards dominion
escaping fortune
the sands reflection of depth
that is one meditation
and one godhead
no metal may be reserved withing the void
abject poverty is when
when i had...
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Categories:
war, childhood, desire, fate,
Form: Free verse
Child of the Street“Consequence”
Smile, Smile, Smile my little child, Smile.
I know you can
Oh, little child of the street.
Pope Francis says,
“You are a consequence,
A consequence of war.”
Your tattered clothes,
Your blackened face,
You’re all alone,
You have no home.
Smile, Smile, Smile my little child, Smile.
I see your tears,
I feel your pain,
You bear the cross
Of mankind’s wrath.
You...
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Categories:
war, child, childhood, conflict, confusion,
Form: Free verse
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