Category Archives: War



Dementia

I comb my mind for happy thoughts,
I’d like to paint them in a poem.
But ev’ry day the news is fraught
With raging hate, evincing moans.
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Posted in Aging, Pain, Politics, Today's News, War

Contemporary History: Blank Verse Musings

Arab Spring slumps into tired Summer
With Fall, menacing, prelude to Winter.
Damn! How quickly vision blurs, ripped to rags—
And costly freedom drowns in murky hate.
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Posted in Politics, Religion, Today's News, War

Don’t Worry! Be Happy!

The media, of course, lead with fire, blood—
We’re shown a dizzy world, spiraling, doomed
By hate, by gods, by greed—torrents that flood,
Submerge philosophy—we drown, consumed.
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Posted in Inspiration, Pain, Politics, War, Wisdom

Tears

I am, famously, a melancholic,
But this past week has been so brutal, seared
With tragedies that leap, hop, and frolic,
I found myself, three times, beset with tears.
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Posted in Death, Pain, Politics, Today's News, War, Wisdom

War Words

Skirmish, assault, attack, war—
These genteel terms won’t do.
They’re names for children’s games,
Etymologically pale:
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Posted in Death, Pain, Politics, War

Agitation

Neurobiology, doubtless, maintains
Strange modalities manipulating
Brains—sound and sight and worry, produce strains,
Synapse sparks, ebbs and snarling flows freighting
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Posted in Politics, Today's News, War, Wisdom