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HEROES

HEROES

AS THE SMOKE CLEARS WE STAND ALONE BARELY 40 FROM 400 OF US REMAIN WE HAVE WON THE DAY VICTORY IS OURS YET WHAT GLORY THIS? THAT LEAVES OUR BRO...

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like

like

ok, you know it's sarcasm right?...

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To Satisfy Mankinds Greed

To Satisfy Mankind's Greed

What are we doing to our earth and what are we leaving behind for our children...

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Masters of War

Masters of War

You who are so ready to fight And spill our children's blood Why do you hide in bunkers so deep Like rabbits in their warren When bullets fly an...

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An open letter to God

An open letter to God…

Dear God, I hope you had a good day today, Today I have families in my heart, and I want to share my thoughts and requests with you about all th...

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New Points of Failure

New Points of Failure

Take a bite from the apple, my dear. The taste of knowledge will open up for you a whole new world, you’ll see. The juices will flow from lips down...

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Dream a Dream

Dream a Dream

Sad and sorry sight you are Sagging round the edges Gutters hanging, rusted roof Windows sightless staring Mortar crumbling, cracking walls Floor...

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Shamans spell a Flat Earth Internet Caf tale

Shaman’s spell…, a Flat Earth Internet Café tale…

the thing is......

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TV fact or fiction good or bad

TV...fact or fiction? good or bad?

did you catch my 'ordealing with'? one of these days, not today, I might pen something filled of non-word words......

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Speed Demons

Speed Demons

Thankfully it is only a small minority but even that is too much. One death is one death too many....

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Trick or Treat

Trick-or-Treat

Seven-billion mark by Halloween; by 2050, estimated at three billion more. Contemplate: what is our planet to do? Will there be enough resources fo...

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The Battle

The Battle

If you are a follower of cricket then no explanation is necessary...

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Change

Change

Sometimes we must fail To rise, sink to swim – Sometimes we must be ugly To be beautiful The goslings fell and fell Their first second and thir...

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Intertwined

Intertwined

The title should explain all...

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Thoughts Accrued

Thoughts Accrued

The answer is here You need to look But by the cover Don't judge the book...

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the road that lies before me

the road that lies before me.

a poem about life......

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Allah Jehovah

Allah / Jehovah

Sometimes the stupidity of man leaves me speechless...

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Returning her to herself

Returning her to herself...

I think God made a mistake, He gave me six daughters, But a daughter is the greatest gift any man can ever hope to receive, I’ll never know why God...

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beauty in the face

beauty in the face

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2011/07/26/138698775/as-country-mourns-norway-names-victims?ft=1&f=1001...

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Man Will Change

Man Will Change

Man will change like chameleon clothed in envy Amid the evergreen leaves objectives are concealed Man will change Like Vancouver doffing o...

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Fallen Soldier

Fallen Soldier

This poem gives a view into a soldier's view,taken fom one world and brought to a violent next... Dedicated to SPC.Walters A Btry 1/9 FA...

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Homeless

Homeless

We have all seen them...

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Luminosity

Luminosity…

Many years ago, when I was still a young psychotherapist/hypnotherapist, I worked with a teacher whose heart was broken by her itinerant lover…, She...

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unsagacious

unsagacious

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sagacious http://www.npr.org/2011/07/13/137831224/moodys-puts-u-s-s-credit-rating-under-review...

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Beneath the Tree

Beneath the Tree

History is full of cease-fires at Christmas and even where 'enemies' have gotten together and celebrated. Why is it that this feeling cannot be carri...

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the axe

the axe

notable that sarcasm rhymes with chasm, no h....

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Mirror Mirror on the Wall

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall

In this day and age the magazines tell us to go for the quick fix. Plastic surgery is getting out of control when even children are having it to impro...

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The Price of Truth

The Price of Truth

I wrote this one in response to being the runner up in a contest, it was logged in the Library of Congress in 2003....

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Interaction

Interaction

just wondering how people interact.............

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Hunger

Hunger

We rip this world apart to produce more so that we can throw away more...

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palaver

palaver

pick a news story of today and apply... http://www.rhymezone.com/r/d?u=palaver...

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This side of the Zambezi

This side of the Zambezi…

Many years ago, when I was a volunteer non-combatant in South Africa’s apartheid war against Namibia, I experienced a life-enriching phenomenon, whi...

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The First Time

The First Time

How conversation breaks down the barriers of fear when first meeting someone an how it can progress............

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Brothers and brothers of him

Brothers and brothers of him

A thought about the path others dared to tread..............

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I love you

I love you…

Note: [‘I love you…’, All gurus, all religions, all of the spiritual paths tell us that this is the most transformative phrase in the universe… Why...

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free

free

Who are you? so proud and tall! You speak of freedom, For one and all, A wise man, It is said, Learns by past mistake, Are we less of a fool, If...

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The Flipside

The Flipside

Your words ring of poison An there's hatred in the air Only you know your background But i'm sure no one did care Your opinion is tainted An a...

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Misernomics

Misernomics

we're counting...on you...

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Judgement Day

Judgement Day

I knew there was a reason I don't watch the news......

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Border Reflections

Border Reflections

advantage taken of human need as desperation laws do break while US agri-business moves with greed into the after-NAFTA wake family fields of deci...

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Rhythm of time

Rhythm of time

The Rhythm Of Time There’s an inner thing in every man, Do you know this thing my friend? It has withstood the blows of a million years, And will...

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10 different kinds of turquoise

10 different kinds of turquoise…

Twenty-six kilometers north of Limassol, there’s a place called ‘governor’s beach’, I love going there, especially when I feel my heart closing…, Es...

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