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Entries Tagged as 'The Long War'

Man is at death’s door


I have to tell you right now
your prayers are in doubt
as word, my word is out.

God has spoken
man is at death’s door
fighting on every plane
no word for him to heed
such as this so hideous war.

I want told, by you who are to care
to stop that prayerful moan down there.
The ears are aching
the whole universe destroyed
what next you foolish idle folk
a war, a war – so mad of mind you are.

Give over, give to me a chance
to re-work your conscience,
a rewiring at best
then perhaps foolishness dies
and gentle as a lamb to be to you
I can then love and caress.

God so has spoken – the word is out
‘love you neighbour’.
Or hell on this plane of Earth
is about to bleed hence forth
as I the Almighty cause a catastrophic roar
and all you minnows will be no, no more.

August 30th, 2015
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Night of the generals


Night of the generals.
Night of the dead.

Who but of those victims
do we each hear of their story
valued in the end.

No such fortune.
No such prize.
God declares an army
religion’s wise

But not so for everyone involved,
the battle for those spoils
is what in the end, for those who attended?
– No, not for them.

This is of a more
individualised select few
more about what and for whom.

Countries divided
wealth at the core
deep throat involved
but who among them
keeps any scores.

This is a game of the adventurous crew
to ensure wealth is continued
and death is a ‘who cares’,
just of you complaining.

‘Collateral’ is really what we call
those at the factory
of death’s worldly crew.

August 25th, 2015
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Watch out folk


Casualty warnings
everywhere they are heard
memories of an invasion – war like
my mind now races forward.

Who or what are they
hoards of another breed?
What kind of people
destroy their own seed?

Some say adventurers
of another time and of outer space.
But I do now believe
we are being encountered
by our own mind re-arranging
to comprehend what next…

This our own human race
has come to and now prefers
to exterminate rather than improve on
this once miraculous human being.

A mastermind ingenious type
to develop this place, this earth we inhabit
preservation once –
now of course a depleted universe
man-made human disgrace.
–
Watch out folk life is of a short space
now we are in the arms race
to annihilate our own human beings
on this planet once beautiful
now unfortunately in desolate need to resuscitate.
–
Break all those imperative survival skill rules
and you are left in a landscape
no where left to escape
and if so, no place safe.

March 3rd, 2015
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Hell’s tormented history


Surely not the place to be
in hell’s tormented history.

No-one does clearly understand
that the devil leaves his mark, his stand
on all who are to forget the rule
that life on Earth is not about your actions and your tone
without that behaviour affecting one and all.

So in defiance of perpetual greed,
conquering other people’s land
and living a life of speed,
the only way to bend a rule
is look back as if at school
and see the benefit and the loss
and work out smartly the devil’s game
and in how to reduce that deadly war mongering same.

February 10th, 2015
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Problem with peace


Problem with peace
it is so hard to find
and when found, too hard,
far too hard for man to contain
that of hate and hurt inside.

So short a life and yet a war preferred
what a loss to a mind so rich
to limit intelligence to guns and war
when a peace creatively explored
is so enriching, life sustaining –

Man can never be complete
and yet here we are repeat and deplete
as war drums again do beat.

February 7th, 2015
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