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Just Felt 'a Slight Bump

A mother hare hit by a speeding car,
Blood on the road, disordered heap of limbs,
Fur, feet and floppy ears, what a mess!
Car driver, loud music blaring from his tape cassette
Scarcely noticed, but at night the leveret
Came out from where he’d crouched all day,
Approached the silent heap that was his mother,
Sniffed her gently, walked around but could not understand
Why she was cold and stiff who had been warm and loving.
Fucking callous speeding motorists, too
Don’t understand what dreadful carnage they can do,
What beastly pain and sorrow they can sow.

poem by Pete Crowther
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The coming ice age

An age
Where man reverts
To living in caves
In order for him to escape
The extreme weather conditions
And his pending fate

A case of history repeating itself
Only affecting specific parts of the world
If only man listened
To the repeated warnings
He had been given

The polar ice caps melted
Sea levels rose
Followed by widespread flooding

It's happened before
It will happen again

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poem by Sinclair Azubuike
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Evil On Foot

For ten years
Evil stood on the hills
Of Afghanistan
Evil on foot
Moved in and out of Pakistan

When he hit the West
Lives erupted in dust and smoke
Concrete and glass icons fell
Tears flooded the street of nations
All this
As Evil
Stroked his beard in victory

For ten years
Blood stuck to human corps
Evil reigned triumphant
Delighted in the carnage
And Justice waits

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poem by Buxton Shippy
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Many Badges

Many badges basket wishes of our people,
This beef concerns us in every way;
Airports of this century battle against foes,
To see their boots climbing in our mind.
This world accuses the burdensome people,
The terror of our wild drums into the scene.
Many fled from occupying forces,
These bricks were brothers, called warriors.
They made war a dream of reality, the carnage
Of our days and nights, the reality of all the world.
The world was combining its forces
To conquer a world too fierce.
This bubbles from streams of this creamy planet,
Boys rumble fortunately to match their girls.

poem by Naveed Akram
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Faith

Since all that is was ever bound to be;
Since grim, eternal laws our Being bind;
And both the riddle and the answer find,
And both the carnage and the calm decree;
Since plain within the Book of Destiny
Is written all the journey of mankind
Inexorably to the end; since blind
And mortal puppets playing parts are we:

Then let's have faith; good cometh out of ill;
The power that shaped the strife shall end the strife;
Then let's bow down before the Unknown Will;
Fight on, believing all is well with life;
Seeing within the worst of War's red rage
The gleam, the glory of the Golden Age.

poem by Robert William Service
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Poem

This poem is a gift

Free words

Under the stench of a barbed wire world

Flowers that live on

After the flowers have been blown from the graves

In the midst of war

These words are a gift

A balm for the poor hungry mouth

To feed on

After the nightmare of carnage

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poem by Yvette Smith
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Religions of Man - Part III - or - I See Humanity Drowned

Vacant blank faces
Animal traces
Roaring cacophonous crowd
Motioned by fury
Madness obscuring
Moves onward
Dark hideous cloud
Explosive malevolence
Uncontrolled ignorance
Screaming for bloodiness
Loud
Driven to vengeance
Weapon dependant
Religion
Crept out from its shroud
How can we save you
Embrace or dissuade you
To share with you peace and its sounds
For until something changes
Religion

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poem by Egal Bohen
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Class One

Classy features are glamorous for those over theses
That differ, that strangely admire and become chunky.
My extra-large carelessness exhibits the defects
Of a forgotten paper that bores at the cerebrum.
My enthusiasm mattered to the liver and kidney,
I keep them under a banner that revolves around me.
I have dear clans, dear feuds and expensive gatherings,
Might they work in decisions always decorous?
The chief of knowledge causes us concern, desertion
And coherent looks, the real ingredients of a war.
Peace annuls the business of carnage and cemetery,
These are warriors of blood, soldiers of fortune.

poem by Naveed Akram
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On the Russian Persecution of the Jews: Sonnets

O SON of man, by lying tongues adored,
By slaughterous hands of slaves with feet red-shod
In carnage deep as ever Christian trod
Profaned with prayer and sacrifice abhorred
And incense from the trembling tyrant’s horde,
Brute worshippers or wielders of the rod,
Most murderous even of all that call thee God,
Most treacherous even that ever called thee Lord;
Face loved of little children long ago,
Head hated of the priests and rulers then,
If thou see this, or hear these hounds of thine
Run ravening as the Gadarean swine,
Say, was not this thy Passion, to foreknow
In death’s worst hour the works of Christian men?

poem by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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My Friend in Afghanistan

My friend in Aghanistan
Stationed in the frontlines,
He sleeps with his loaded gun
And has never stepped on a mine.

He is a brave young man,
Fighting in eternal wars
From Iraq to Afghanistan -
He may yet get a purple star.

I wrote him to say a prayer
And to connect him with some sanity,
For the trauma and carnage there
May break up a man mentally.

My friend in Afghanistan
My prayer for him was this:
That he remain a whole man
And may he go home in one piece.

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poem by Cynthia Buhain-Baello
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