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Armistice

Armistice

 

A hundred years ago

Europe was ablaze

An awful fire, open-pit

Like southern

Soldier picking

 

North Africa, western Asia

Cut into with blunt

European, Turkish knives

As if

The lands were

Burnt meat

 

Now the USA is adding

Fuel to the fire

My grandfather a soldier-stick

Serving with muscle and courage

And fear

(I’m guessing about the fear, for I never

Saw if in him)

 

Then all elevens,

And it’s over: fire tamped

Ashes rising, setting on new ground

Of anger and reparation

 

Peace rendered ironic

Buckets of grave dirt

Thrown against

Walls of retribution

 

Against which

New shadows will rise

 

C L Couch

 

(National Geographic Society)

 

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Red Crescent

Red Crescent

(Yemen)

 

What’s left behind

In towns, on plains of blood

Yemen

And everywhere

In the west

Of Asia

 

They look for

Our families taken

Through

The rents of war

 

They offer drink

Give food

And in the desert night

Leave warmth

Around the victims

 

Soft-bright shields

Drawn with symbols

 

Did you not know?

Red Crescent complements

The awful need

 

Quranic teaching

And impulse

To save the unknown

Neighbor

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world warring

world warring

 

the President goes

to Cuba with needful

cause death toll in

Syria increases from

Russian airstrikes so

goes the claim

 

North Korea via

Its leadership strives

to move to the front

row of the nuclear

theatre Saudi Arabia

 

executes students

dissidents and (who

knows) POWs they

are held all over Asia

and in parts

 

of Africa I say

parenthetically

because too many

do not see we are

a warring world

nations at nations

forces inside

and in between

 

diplomacy cannot

fail or the impulse

to adapt all our

propensities still in

keeping Edenic

promises making

eccentric community

in spite all the chaos

at Babel

 

maybe a surprise

that we can tilt

and keep our planet

toward the good

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