Category Archives: War



Olympic Games

What strange genetic drive, one wonders, grew
Contests, games, the triple axels, snow board
Contortion, the need for speed, grace imbued
In athletes’ fierce greed to win, be adored?
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Posted in Sports, War

Clerics, Monarchs, Money

Go back to One Samuel chapter eight—
That’s when the struggle that still haunts began.
The priests were running things, and doing great
For themselves—they got the loot, ran the clan.
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Posted in Greed, Religion, War

How?

I sit here, determined to write
Some lyric verse
Celebrating joy
With, perhaps, a comic lilt.
I squeeze my brain
To press out juice
Sweet with cheer,
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Posted in Death, Greed, Pain, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Today's News, War

An Immodest Proposal For Ending War

Twenty-four hundred years ago a Greek
Playwright named Aristophanes produced
A comedy in which one smart woman
Ended the Peloponnesian Wars.
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Posted in Lust, Politics, War, Wisdom

My Volume Of Verse

I’ve hammered out
Three hundred ninety poems,
Some bent and skewed,
Some polished
And quite bright.
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Posted in Greed, Illusion, Poetry (What is it?), Politics, Religion, War, Wisdom

Foreign Policy: The Comedy

Where, pray tell, are Gilbert and Sullivan
When we need them? Surely, the Mikado,
Lord High Executioner, their henchmen,
Could better guide this land’s limp bravado.
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Posted in Politics, Today's News, War