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Who We Are


Dark and ugly,
quite surreal
is this portrayal
of who we are
and not yet seen
portrayed here by Gaudi
what we are unable to know and view
of what in history we repeat
and now can somehow religiously view.

May 19th, 2011
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Home – if Only



Take me home
let me be free
the birds are singing
and I know their call
that sweet and heavenly sound.

The birds are indicating
the world is no longer at war
but not that things are all calmly in place

For I am now
so very far from home
and long to be at peace
among that wondrous calm
and sound of nature’s throng.

May 10th, 2011
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From Here to Where?

The value of our dollar is dropping by the day
The value of our humanity is non-existent as they say

But what if a need arises
who is to come and rescue us
from who we have become

Unless we are to be gathered
in an attempt to undo now for the future
what previous damage we have done.

May 8th, 2011
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Voices from the Front

Horror has but only one tale
the advantage of which is the memory trail.
Trial upon trial reverberates
the mind of disquiet never stops the painful state.

Give me a rest, a peace
I can breathe no longer
the taste of flesh and blood and smoke and disease.
I am a man of valour I know,

But what of the carnage
whom ever is to know
as my mind does repeat the stories I have seen
and oh how horrid they are
to those, as I who too have been to battle and seen.

May 8th, 2011
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Voices from Passchendaele (2)



Horror has a funny tale after the event
the peaceful repose
the ugliness
is covered by glorious shades of green,
but in these dark tempestuous woods
lies a battle,
a story most misunderstood.

There for those to whom do care
tells a tale of anguish and horror
a person is to supposedly bare.

But when all is left and quiet
the stain of man is ever present
in those to whom shall mow this ground
for although no apparent sound
the meaning of pain belies the ears
as filled by the enormous flood
of eons of years of tears.

May 1st, 2011
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