#weapons
One stomp.
Then another.
One-two.
One-two.
Serious, rigid faces.
Green helmets.
They are like clones.
They have something
in their hands—
each person, one long,
black stick.
Then one person yells:
"STOP!"
He looks at Him.
"AIM!"
The long sticks are pointing
toward Him.
Of course, the Raven
won't wait for them to do
whatever they are going to do.
"Ca-ca-caw!," He yelled
while turning around.
Soon after that,
the Raven flew.
May 11
May 11, 2026 at 1:56 PM UTC
Les vrais amis sont des anges gardiens remarquables
Tels des frères et sœurs dévoués et dignes de conviction
Tels des chars lourds T58 assumant des rôles justifiés
Et des armures invincibles, de redoutables défenseurs.
Les vrais amis ne transforment ni alliés ni ennemis en vils démons
Les vrais amis protègent toujours les intérêts mutuellement liés
Les vrais amis ne se comportent pas comme des nuisibles manipulateurs
Et les vrais amis agissent avec humanité, à tous les niveaux imaginables.
Méfiez-vous de tous les amis faux, défaillants, faillibles, fragiles et affaiblis
Choisissez vos amis avec sagesse, circonspection et avec minutie
Notre monde regorge de tyrans futiles et ostentatoires, aux mains souillées.
Les vrais amis ne causent de tort à personne, pas même à leurs ennemis
Notre monde grouille de vermine avide de dévorer les orteils des nouveau-nés
Soyez pleinement conscients des eaux environnantes et de la mer endormie.
P.S. Traduction de ‘Real Friends Are Like Trusted Siblings’ par Hébert Logerie.
Copyright © Avril 2026 Hébert Logerie. Tous droits réservés.
Hébert Logerie est l'auteur de plusieurs recueils de poésie.
Apr 19
Apr 19, 2026 at 10:02 PM UTC
a battlefield with no blood, just poison
using words not weapons
where every little thing hurts, that's happened
where the soldiers don't sacrifice but disappear
leaving wounds that are severe.
May 22, 2025
May 22, 2025 at 10:38 AM UTC
I learned to spar with my stray thoughts,
Every ounce of fear or anxiety,
Becomes a battle of wit.
Though that may not work for everyone,
Some just build lanterns,
A way to see through the night.
Others learn to silence their worries,
Utilizing weapons to wipe away their nightmares,
Burning holes where there once was doubt.
Mar 24, 2025
Mar 24, 2025 at 9:31 AM UTC
If the planet woke up,
And we had all disappeared,
Would it mourn our memory?
It depends on the way we go,
Somebody snapping their fingers, we fade away,
Or a blinding ball of light as nuclear weapons implode.
If God revoked our presence today,
What would happen with all the factories,
There's a chance they run until Earth runs out of fuel.
It seems that if that happened,
Then all these countries would sink into the sea,
With our glory and memory.
Mar 20, 2025
Mar 20, 2025 at 2:25 PM UTC
Il Pleut
Et on tire
Ce n’est pas un jeu
On se retire
Tout le monde a peur
Les bébés et les enfants pleurent
Hommes et femmes s’écœurent
Où tout le monde meurt
Dans les rues infestées d’idiots et de bandits
Ils sont nos ennemis
Ils ne sont pas nos amis
Ils tirent comme des fous
Les balles tombent comme des grains de pluie
Les gangsters ne sont pas doux
Ils sont des terroristes
Ils sont des mauvais touristes
Ils sont des robots criminels
Ils n’ont ni cœur, ni âme et ni esprit
Ils sont des damnés éternels
En destination des enfers
Leurs organes sont en fer
Ils ne sont pas des humains
Leurs mains sont imbibées de sang
Ils sont des malandrins
Ils sont des scélérats de Satan.
Il pleut
Et on tire
On se retire
Au milieu
De tout ce qui est mauvais
Le monde n’est pas en paix
C’est toute la terre en guerre
Au fond du cimetière
On ne fabrique pas d’armes
Chez nous
On n’a que des larmes
Chez nous
On pleure
Chez nous
On fabrique trop d’armes ailleurs
Trop de gens meurent
Tout le monde a peur
Il y a trop de misère et de malheur.
Copyright © Novembre 2024, Hébert Logerie, Tous droits réservés
Hébert Logerie est l'auteur de plusieurs livres de poésie.
Nov 30, 2024
Nov 30, 2024 at 2:12 AM UTC
It is raining
And they are shooting
This is not a game
This is a shame
Everyone is afraid
Babies and children are crying
Men and women are very mad
Where everyone is dying
The streets are infested with idiots and bandits
They are our enemies
They are not our friends
They shoot like crazy ants
Bullets fall like raindrops and rice
Gangsters are not nice
They are terrorists
They are bad tourists
They Are robot-criminals
They have no hearts, no minds and no souls
They are eternally ******
Bound for Hell, the infernal dam
Their organs are made of steel and iron
They are not human
Their hands are soaked with blood
They are scoundrels covered with mud
They are the spawns of Satan.
It's Raining
And they are killing
What a **** shame
Amidst all the madness
This is outright sickness
The universe is not at peace
The entire world is at war, in distress
Deep in the dungeon of the cemetery
We don't make deadly weapons
Here
We only have tears, rhymes and songs
At home
We cry everywhere
At home
They make too many weapons elsewhere
Too many people are dying in this madness
Everyone is afraid at home
There is too much misery and unhappiness.
Copyright © November 2024, Hébert Logerie, All rights reserved
Hébert Logerie is the author of several books of poetry.
Nov 30, 2024
Nov 30, 2024 at 2:07 AM UTC
In life stories form
all informed knowing, be it
beautiful adversity universally
re-co-known
acknowledged with smiles, and
nods, sense of yes, I know, I think,
I see you think, so, I know, I did
finish writing something meaningful;
or, be it in every way some other way.
I think you may imagine you agree.
In conscience used, we take science,
knowledge of beauty, chaotic clouds,
bending rays of sunshine, evening
the heave offering, leaving smooth
cool of the day
white sugar desert dunes, to an ant or bee.
{KJB, viable Bible archetype, declares phonetic
remenants of Eber's unconfused use of letters,
towb rah translate as good and evil, but better see
טוֹברַע good and bad, useful and useless to the point
of wasting effort, in a take it easy world, where we
know enough, drink, remember when it was,
plenty of water, no real enemies yet, and only
one barrier, over which those beautiful wild
seeds have been carried, by ravens, and doves
and rodents who surface only in the night.
Let's recall an old told tale, how folks
skinned in many colors we continue to be coated with,
all lost the knowledge that lying was used, to steal,
during lives times when we are parts in wholes,
until all things continuing, combine your will
to wonder what I imagined I am continuing,
with my own will to wander on, meandering
through the substance of hope, by my own
faith, fi, upright, balanced valence in chemical
terms, fit to fight for your right to think wrong,
confident my pride has been filed to a point,
not my right to be wrong, or do wrong, or lie.
To give good reason for cost of learning.
The faith that gives reason its point.
To tell the truth, sheriffs were good guys,
when I was a kid, a wild little goat, indeed,
I have seen myself in seven grandchildren
and their little heathen friends, so I know,
we get more like ourselves, my mother in law said.
And now, I keep the peace, wu wei easy knowing
towb ra' beautiful efforting life demands in return,
for freely eating from all the trees in the garden, thank you.
Aug 28, 2024
Aug 28, 2024 at 4:35 PM UTC
Start a line of thought, like a youngster
who had the chief insensitive;
Now I select my words wisely, with
silence—as no evil will be a cause of a weapon.
And of course, I start every prayer, by
coming with a confession.
As I’ve learnt the sharpest
dagger, is a jealous eye,
Worshiping all the things it lacks;
recalling those who refer to your
character only by its past—the ones to
stab you in the back.
Apr 23, 2024
Apr 23, 2024 at 12:44 PM UTC
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Feb 14, 2024
Feb 14, 2024 at 2:42 PM UTC
Eventful War Part 2
It is simply ongoing
The war as you all call it
Continues and will never end
For those who control the world
And all of us are pulling the strings
To make more cash and power
From the war acts which don't stop
A new year a new war in a new place
Or an old place dusting off an old war
It's doesn't matter why who how when
What matters is power and a bit of cash
They lust for power have it all want more
Many will die nations will be wrecked
Weapons used in anger or for fun
You name it they'll use it and do it
Conflict is the normal for them
There is no profit in peace
The Eventful War Part 2 continues
Part 1 never actually stopped…
May 7, 2023
May 7, 2023 at 10:31 PM UTC
*
I'd rather you use bombs and knives,
I'd rather you use guns and swords.
I'd rather that we would have fights;
that you'd leave me with open sores.
I'd rather you find a different weapon,
a different tool to use on me.
I wish you'd make me feel a pain;
I wish you'd leave me weak and ******
Yet the sharpest tool is what you use;
you leave me dead inside.
I wish you'd tear my heart out;
I wish I would have died.
You open your mouth and the weapons spill out,
you're armed with words that you scream and shout.
The pain is unbearable, the torture indescribable.
I know there's no point in putting up a struggle.
You **** me, one by one,
your words an open ****
They slice me up in pieces,
making me feel like trash.
All I can be is silent;
I know that is the best.
I try to block them out,
but they're already in my chest.
Your words are killing me;
a slow, antagonizing death.
Each word you say cuts me,
each wound raw and fresh.
I wish you'd let me be,
I wish you'd leave it unsaid.
I guess you just can't see
you can't bring someone back from the dead.
*
Apr 1, 2022
Apr 1, 2022 at 8:58 PM UTC
Missile Ways
What's up the sky and the Russian planes?
Before they're splashed by Stinger missiles
Whoosh! Missile away go go go **** a jet
Or chopper bring it down in the water
Let the crew freeze or drown
Some burn alive or get killed in the crash
How dare they invade Ukraine!
Teach them all a lesson forever
Some things not to be forgotten
Like Duncan in Dune 2021 die superbly
Never surrender no matter what
This is how Ukraine is now
No matter what happens
Ukraine wins Russia loses
Splashed enemy aircraft
Dead aircrew Putin kaput
Mar 20, 2022
Mar 20, 2022 at 6:01 PM UTC
By Sixes
With this book we have to make a difference
The weight of worry and seriousness is huge
This has not happened before not this way
And very soon all things could happen
They try to control it but can they?
How do you control so many soldiers?
Along with the other shooters
Planes ships launchers tanks and more
Myself I've never felt this way
Except briefly in the early 80s
The world moved on in most ways
But not in Putin's head for him
He alone wants his empire back
And will ruin the world to get it
This is why we all must not fail
And stop him from winning
Even if the unthinkable happens
It has already started the walk
Sleep walking to Armageddon
NATO and Russia and the rest
This is really it...
Mar 20, 2022
Mar 20, 2022 at 5:42 PM UTC
Man Isle
From Russia with love ten thousand missiles
All for NATO the US Europe and Ukraine
Forged in battle ordered fired by Putin
New way to do things poor cold soldiers
Sent to battle warm them up!
Peace sells nobody’s interested
Unless it's cut-price Vipers or stealth jets
Locked and loaded get you some blood
Neo Soviet Ivan style a few new scalps
Doesn't matter we weren't enemies
Pretending is fine as Putin does it
As he plays top dog woofing along
His ongoing Ukraine war after Syria
Where will be next the Isle of Man?
Mar 4, 2022
Mar 4, 2022 at 8:24 PM UTC
Big bucks being made/weapons sales contracts, slush fund/death big business
Sep 1, 2021
Sep 1, 2021 at 1:29 PM UTC
Now When It Comes To Weapons...
... That TRULY Threaten... !!!
Many Are DRAWN...
But What Can Be Called...
To Be The...
... GREATEST of Them All... !!!
But To Apply The Word... “ GREAT “...
ISN’T Quite What Relates...
To Weapons Displayed...
That Cause HURT And Give PAIN... !!!
So This Piece of Wordplay...
Will Look Into Weapons...
That Employ The BRAIN... !!!
And Others That STRENGTHEN...
How POWERFUL Folks...
Now Keep People CONTROLLED... !!!
So That Weapons Like These...
RESTRICT Our Human Breed... !!!
Just Like Technology...
Is Doing... CURRENTLY... !!!
And How People Who Lead...
Use These Weapons To KEEP...
The Masses In Zones...
Where Their Weapons Take Hold...
Like A... Viral Disease...
That Locks Down The Streets... !!!
WITHOUT Using Armies...
UNTIL It Is Deemed...
That We All NEED VACCINES... !!!
Do You See What I Mean... ???
Some Weapons Are CLEVER...
And Hit Like BAD Weather... !!!!
Or Dodge Like Mayweather...
When Facing Vendettas...
Brought By Boxing Fellas... !!!
And Then There’s Agendas...
That SPIN Just Like Blenders...
With Weapons CONTENTIOUS...
Like... VICIOUS Contenders... !!!
And What About Gender... ?
When It’s USED Like A Weapon...
That Nowadays THREATENS...
... Freedom of Expression... ?!?
A Weapon That’s Spreading...
Like GLOBAL INFECTIONS... !!!!!!
You SEE There Are Themes...
That Infuse Poetry...
With Thinking That’s DEEP... !!!
A WEAPON I USE...
To Speak On Issues... !!!
But Now See That Views...
That Deal In The TRUTH...
THREATENS And Lessens...
Your Chance To Get Through...
To Feed Masses Who...
Are Constantly Fuelled...
By Media Tools And Industry Crews...
Whose Weapons Are FOOLS...
Who’ll... Distribute Tunes...
That... AREN’T All That Good... !?!
But Are Given A PUSH...
By MARKETING CROOKS...
So The Masses Get HOOKED...
And Concerts Are Booked...
Because of The Way...
That Their Songs Get REPLAYED...
Day After DAY...
On Mainstream Airwaves... !!!
You See NOTHING'S As Straight...
As People... Like To CLAIM... !!!
When It Comes To The Names...
Who Are Constantly Seen...
Because They... ENTERTAIN... !!!
RATHER Than CHALLENGE Brains...
Through The Art That They Make...
CONTROL Is The Weapon...
That REALLY DICTATES... !!!
What It Is People Say...
In... Various Frames...
It’s A POWERFUL Tool...
That A Gun CAN Reduce... !!!
But CANNOT Take Down...
When CONTROL Is What’s Used...
To Give People CROWNS...
Or To RULE In Courtrooms... !!!
Which Now Leads Me To Courts...
A Weapon That Breeds...
... Many CONTROVERSIES... !!!
When People Walk FREE...
Or RIG... PRESIDENCIES... !!!
Because of Whose Given...
Supreme Court Positions... !!!
A Weapon That Meddles...
On... MULTIPLE Levels... !!!
When POWER Is Used...
To Distort And ABUSE... !!!
The Truth To Confuse...
Or To Change A Decision...
Like... WHO Gets To RULE... ?!?
And WHO Gets Positioned...
To SET The Conditions...
of How This World Runs... !!!
A Weapon That’s HUNGRY...
And Feeds OFF of MONEY... !!!
That... CONTROLS BILLIONS... !!!
A POWER That’s GREATER...
Than... ANY BIG GUN... !!!!!!
Or Bomb That Is Dropped...
To Aid An INVASION...
To CORRUPT Governments... !!!
Its QUITE An EQUATION...
That FUELS THIS Question...
When It Comes To Weapons... !?!
Because MANY Are Drawn...
And Leave People Forlorn...
But The Power of Thought...
And Sway In The Courts...
Like... MASS Distribution...
Breeds POWERFUL Movements... !!!
So Now In CONCLUSION...
Now Corona Has Called...
For Freedoms’ DOWNFALL...
Could BIO WARFARE...
Be What People Declare... ???
To Be The WEAPON...
That’s....
“ The GREATEST of Them All ? “
Aug 31, 2021
Aug 31, 2021 at 1:20 AM UTC
& of the myriad ways
to drive a man to feel
The goddess weapon
Is *** appeal
Feb 10, 2021
Feb 10, 2021 at 7:18 AM UTC
What is the difference between—
A double-edged sword;
A loaded riffle and;
A sharp tongue?
Sep 26, 2020
Sep 26, 2020 at 5:05 AM UTC
After harmlessly crossing your border
you take our friendship hostage
guarding your perimeter with sandbags of arbitrary etiquette
a no man's land of manners separates us
you snipe from your defensive position
so I retreat and start strategizing.
Consulting my generals to discuss your tactics
they advise me to start stockpiling weapons
and to start looking for weaknesses.
There is a counteroffensive to your intentions.
While you were destroying my satcoms
a successful infiltration of your command center was accomplished.
Once your defenses were understood
your flanks appeared vulnerable.
Blind spots were revealed.
You only sign a treaty once your resources start depleting
then you ignore the rules I'm reading to give me a beating.
So I'm building up my arsenal and
enriching my uranium in this centrifuge
where we spin in circles.
My nuclear option is prepared and capable.
Pacifism is more appealing than violence
but when you try to erase who I am I must take a stand.
Armed with an ability to attack
I get a warhead on my shoulders
found from old schematics
you shared with me while I fought your enemies.
They were never thrown away
now they're dusted off and revisited
to make your walls crumble
and incinerate you flag.
Your nation starts hiding from what they were once confiding
after my nukes obliterate your infrastructure.
Rebels and runners fill fallout shelters and basement bunkers
hiding from the radioactivity in the air.
Everyone's death equals success proving I'm best
so I develop a permanent wartime economy
and fire missiles mercilessly.
There's no difference between fighters and civilians
because some insurgents are chameleons
so I **** them by the millions.
The more weapons I get
the more needless death
until the only nations left standing
are those that have stockpiled weapons of their own.
Aug 5, 2020
Aug 5, 2020 at 6:13 AM UTC
Hiroshima Poems
Let Us Be Midwives!
by Hiroshima survivor Sadako Kurihara
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Midnight . . .
the basement of a shattered building . . .
atomic bomb survivors sniveling in the darkness . . .
not a single candle between them . . .
the odor of blood . . .
the stench of death . . .
the sickly-sweet smell of decaying humanity . . .
the groans . . .
the moans . . .
Out of all that, suddenly, miraculously, a voice:
"The baby's coming!"
In the hellish basement, unexpectedly,
a young mother has gone into labor.
In the dark, lacking a single match, what to do?
Scrambling to her side,
forgetting themselves . . .
It appears that my translation above has been used by Hiroshima University in a new field of study called International Peace and Coexistence. I found my translation on the university’s Peace and Coexistence Facebook page. Being a longtime peace activist, I am particularly happy with the name of the course!
Now the remaining Hiroshima survivors are aging, and they must wonder what the world has learned from their harrowing ordeal:
See: whose surviving sons
visit the ancestral graves
white-bearded, with trembling canes?
―Matsuo Basho, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
We should always consider the fates of innocent children:
I lived as best I could, and then I died.
Be careful where you step: the grave is wide.
―Michael R. Burch, "Epitaph for a Child of Hiroshima"
The intense heat and light of the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bomb blasts left behind ghostly silhouettes of human beings whose lives were erased in an instant:
Hiroshima Shadows
by Michael R. Burch
Hiroshima shadows ... mother and child ...
Oh, when will our hearts ever be beguiled
to end mindless war ... to seek peace,
reconciled
to our common mortality?
Poets remind us that we all share a common destiny:
Grasses wilt:
the braking locomotive
grinds to a halt
―Yamaguchi Seishi, loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Something
by Michael R. Burch
Something inescapable is lost―
lost like a pale vapor curling up into shafts of moonlight,
vanishing in a gust of wind toward an expanse of stars
immeasurable and void.
Something uncapturable is gone―
gone with the spent leaves and illuminations of autumn,
scattered into a haze with the faint rustle of parched grass
and remembrance.
Something unforgettable is past―
blown from a glimmer into nothingness, or less,
and finality has swept into a corner where it lies
in dust and cobwebs and silence.
Frail Envelope of Flesh
by Michael R. Burch
Frail envelope of flesh,
lying cold on the surgeon’s table
with anguished eyes
like your mother’s eyes
and a heartbeat weak, unstable ...
Frail crucible of dust,
brief flower come to this―
your tiny hand
in your mother’s hand
for a last bewildered kiss ...
Brief mayfly of a child,
to live two artless years!
Now your mother’s lips
seal up your lips
from the Deluge of her tears ...
Lucifer, to the Enola Gay
by Michael R. Burch
Go then, and give them my meaning
so that their teeming
streets
become my city.
Bring back a pretty
flower,
a chrysanthemum,
perhaps, to bloom
if but an hour,
within a certain room
of mine
where
the sun does not rise or fall,
and the moon,
although it is content to shine,
helps nothing at all.
There,
if I hear the wistful call
of their voices
regretting choices
made
or perhaps not made
in time,
I can look back upon it and recall,
in all its pale forms sublime,
still
Death will never be holy again.
The day the Cloud reigned
by Michael R. Burch
The sky was clear on Hiroshima,
sealing her fate.
The report of the weather plane,
neither early nor late,
was certainly plain.
The few innocuous clouds did not refrain
from abandoning the city.
Only the silence, monstrous in its complicity,
regarding man’s error
acknowledged the horror.
Only the small, astonished victims
understood the immaculate heavens:
the inconceivable light
igniting their bones;
the Cloud, all of a sudden,
billowing unbidden,
and then the apocalyptic rain
descending again and again.
So that where white chrysanthemums
had once whispered with bemused tongues
instantly only ashen ruins remained
the day the Cloud reigned.
War Close Up
by Hiroshima survivor Kurihara Sadako
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Stirring bugles! Rousing martial music!
The announcer reporting "victory"
like some messenger from on high,
fanning, fanning the fervored flames of battle!
Masterful state magicians materializing
in a wizardly procession,
spreading cleverly poisoned words
to bewilder reason!
Artistic expression abracadabra-ed into state-sponsored magic!
The sound of boots, guns, bombs, cannons
as our army advances, advances, advances toward the enemy!
The thunder of our invincible tanks advancing! Alleluia!
The sudden, sweet gurgles of drowning enemy ships!
The radio broadcasts the sounds of battle:
A war hymn resounding to the skies,
sung by courageous men and women
who worship this cruel idol, War.
Oh, so powerful the merest whiff
addles even the most independent spirit―
the ***** of patriotism!
the religion of race!
While on scenic islands
scattered like stepping stones across the globe,
and on farflung continents,
driven by boundless avarice,
the landlords rage and rave again,
instilling hatred in indigenous populations
then prodding, driving them into battle.
Full of high-sounding pretexts
inevitably adapted to expediency
they raise indisputable banners―
God is on our side!
Righteous war!
Holy war!
"Right" becomes the password of thieves.
They square their shoulders:
"To secure world peace
annihilate
the evil opponent!"
They bark commands:
"For ten years, a hundred years,
fight to the last man, the last woman!"
The master magicians' martial music
resounds magisterially;
fanatic bull-mad patriots
roar and run amok;
completely bewitched, the people carol in unison:
"O, let me die by the side of my sweet Sovereign!"
Keywords/Tags: Hiroshima, Nagasaki, atomic bomb, Japan, Japanese, translation, nukes, nuclear weapons, nuclear war, epitaph, child, children, mother, mothers, father, fathers, WWII, apocalypse, Armageddon
May 8, 2020
May 8, 2020 at 1:43 AM UTC
the fact that
man
man created weapons
with the capability to **** man
and the intention
to **** man
is truly shocking
is we existed
without weaponry
so many brutal wars
could have been avoided
and many deaths
could have been
postponed
brutality and cruelty
would not
cease to exist
but
it would
exist less
Mar 31, 2020
Mar 31, 2020 at 9:22 PM UTC
Shoot the shell in the sky
Up up and away
To fall far over there
On enemy positions
Blowing them up
The way its meant to be
Long range fires aimed
At the enemy who does
Exactly the same to us
We are not the same
His blood is not red
Not are his thoughts pure
Or intent good
For he is our enemy
And must be defeated
Totally by all means
Feb 17, 2020
Feb 17, 2020 at 9:41 PM UTC