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The Winds of WarsThe Winds of Wars / The winds of wars have shorn the shores where children once had played, / revealing bones of dead unknowns for whom the faithful’d prayed,

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Mar 13

The Rules of The New World Order: AKA The 11 CommandmentsRule # 0: We alone write the Rules (and We use them as tools when We ****** the ‘mules’) / Rule # 1: Our Intentions are torqued (double Standards well forked as Our Wars are uncorked) / Rule # 2a: what We do defines Legal (no need to inveigle, decrees the Bald Eagle)

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Jan 26

Never A GainI’ve been asked to explain the words “Never A Gain”! / So I’ll limn it here plain, all that’s “Never A Gain”: / Death, destruction and pain define Never A Gain,

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Aug 23, 2025

Famine - For RealThe sinking sun is now undone, / the sky is fading red / and shadows prowl neath cloak and cowl

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Aug 12, 2025

ConscienceThis war, with allies unified / (reminds of German genocide), / leaves mandates, empty, purified,

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Aug 7, 2025

Fifty Shades of DeathWhen nights are dark you’ll never see / the depths of our humanity, / but in the light of desert days

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Jul 7, 2025

A Bird's Eye ViewA little bird has flown the nest / to seek a world of wonder / and spreads her wings 'neath skies possessed

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Apr 3, 2025

KneesPursuing springtime walking sprees / beside our dog, beneath the trees, / I oft detected some unease

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Feb 17, 2025

I Go To Church Each SundayI go to church each Sunday, / God warns ‘there’s much to fear, / the world is decomposing,

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Dec 14, 2024

Tweedledumb and TweedledumberThe world today is split in two / … or three... or four... or maybe more, / but nonetheless, one must confess,

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Nov 17, 2024

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