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 Mar 2016
Walter W Hoelbling
hardly a day goes by
without the news
of yet more suicide attacks
that **** mothers and children
     innocently playing in parks
     listening to their favorite songs
friends chatting over tea and coffee
expectant travelers on their way
     to business  family  or lovers

the perpetrators of such deeds
must be a very lonely crowd
with eyes as empty as their hearts
and frozen souls that harbor the illusion
       that cowards will turn heroes
       that killing innocents is brave
       that the world will recognize their great importance
            when they bring ****** ends to happy lives

it will not come to pass

no peace
     in this   or any other world
can find its way to them
who ****** in cold blood
 Mar 2016
spysgrandson
the ville was just women,
old men, young children--mostly gaunt ghosts
before my platoon arrived with our own dead
men walking

I gave the order to burn the village,
rout its dazed denizens and grease any
who offered resistance

only one woman did, clawing
at my boys like a crazed cat, going after Freddie
from Fresno with a bamboo stalk

I don't know who shot her
but I remember standing over her
with Freddie and Mickey from Milwaukee
who stepped on a mine within the hour

Freddie bought it too, but not until
that night, when small arms fire from the jungle
woke us from our dread dreams

the apparitions that haunted our heads
whenever we spilled the blood of innocents
or even the red devils' kin--perhaps
an equivalent sin

the next day we ****** back
to base camp, a twelve click hike;
as hours passed, and the earth dried,
our shadows became sharper, darkening
reminders we could run
but never hide
 Mar 2016
nivek
I left part of me on railway stations
the top of a mountain
the first steps on a forgotten road.
Part of me can see a lost paradise
a stranger to all my memories
the knowing I must leave all behind
in the end, all my wanderings,
all my understanding, and more
I will exist in all places and none.
 Mar 2016
nivek
always ready for rebellion
tamed by love
the revolution is real
 Mar 2016
Pixievic
Honestly it's ******* killing me
Oh God! I want you to take me
Right here -  right
Now!  - every time I think of
You
Fantasy becomes my
Obsession
Reality dissolves - lost in the
Yearning for just
One ......... Kiss ......... I'm simply ......
U*tterly

***** For You!!*

(C) Pixievic
Just some pixie nonsense!! Fairly self explanatory really ;))
 Mar 2016
David Ehrgott
Hey hey sparky
Where you going with that spliff
Well I might need a lift
Yeah I might need a lift
  
Hey hey sparky
Won't you light up that spliff
'Cause I might need a lift
I just might need a lift
 Mar 2016
Traveler
Fear not humanity
For I know you're out there
In the midst
Of this fanatical continuum

Anchored by compassion
Hearts still able to grieve
The ones who know
Without a doubt
Their leaders do deceive

The tears that fall
For the fallen souls
The dreamers of peace
The Devil's Foes

Hear me now
My fellow human
Break down these walls
These institutions of soul
Take charge and guard
The Hierarchies of reason
Embrace Humanity
And refuse to let go...
Traveler Tim
 Mar 2016
Chloe Zafonte
I'm not like you, when I fall I get back up and walk with bleeding wounds. You fall,cry and wait for someone to carry you away.
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