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In Tunisia's embrace sands unfold
Whispers of stories in sunsets told
And Tunisia is the place to be with warm
Olive trees that dance in the golden rays
Timeless beauty in ancient maze

Tunisian colors shine bright with
Starry nights beneath silver light
Waves kiss shores with a gentle sigh
In Tunisia's heart dreams will
Forever soar.
The Israeli army has attacked Tunisia 🇹🇳
In Qatar the land of
Pearls beneath azure skies
Modern dreams in a city so bright
Qatar's heart glows like stars at night
Richness flows a hopeful sight and
Qatar shines like a guiding star every night.
Israeli war planes bombing Qatar.
In the hush between raindrops and stone, the hills lean inward, as if listening for a voice that never returned.

Low clouds drag their grief across the shoulders of the land, a soft lament in vapor, layered like old letters, unsent.

The trees don't speak— but their silence is fluent, a language of absence etched in shadow and bark.

The sorrow here doesn't weep, it settles in the terrain like ash from a fire no one recalls lighting.

A tragedy, perhaps, of the forgotten— the slow erosion of faces from stone, the fading of footsteps into deep green moss.

And still, the wind carries a lament— a breath, a whisper, a suggestion that the past is not past, it merely sleeps beneath the skeins of brooding, hung cloud.

M@Foxglove.Taranaki.NZ
A dedication to Agnes de Lods’ beautiful, "Raindrops in Schreiberhau" .... a modern artwork of this tradition of verse that echoes the patina of the past. Her lines:

“I drink the peace, I eat the rustle of the wind, Absorbing the steady pattern of raindrops…”

…feel like a continuation of the region’s artistic soul—where nature, memory, and longing converge.
In Venezuela where the palm trees sway
Under the sun little children laugh and play
Life dances in colors both bright
Two lover's kissing under the Venezuelan moonlight And art and music fills the air
A culture that warmly greets and you'll
Never find a brighter place
And together in Venezuela they stand
In unity hand in hand and
They sing a proud song
For Venezuela their beloved strand.
Trump ready to attack Venezuela 🇻🇪
The American army blew up
A boat near Venezuela everyone killed
More wars from the Devils.
If I died would you cry
A simple question reaching high
Like a bird that wants to fly
Straight into a boundless sky
If I died would you cry and
Before the silence I finally choked
And the mysteries that life I planned
So if I died would you cry
And if I did die would a space remain
A hollow ache a lingering pain
A subtle drizzle then the rain
Washing clean again and again
So if I died would you cry or just
Pass me by or would apiece of me stay
In your heart come what may
And light your path along the way
Until we meet again someday.
If I died 😢 😭 😿 😢
Will  daffodils dance near a lake?
Will Heaven still do battle with Hell?
Will you have an NHL?
Will a woman still count the ways she loves?
Will man have his place in love?
Will hawks replace the release of doves?
Noble savages won't be your theme;
Nor Idols leading  on the silver screen.
What happens if you can't dream
On starry, dark or moon-filled nights,
Where waves lap endlessly on your shore.
I worry about this, and so much more.

(There are millstones and nooses hanging loosely;
Rubber bullets hitting ruthlessly.
The mobs are crowding,
Mouthing uselessly)

Listen.
Watch.
Write it again.
The future is closer than you "ink."
A hitman walks in silent breeze
No one sees him among the trees
A name is whispered marked for end
Hitman ready to go and he

Shows no anger or fear
Not even a tear in his eye and
His task is known the target near
A single shot the man is clipped and
The shadow's gone beneath the sun.
A Hitman
They called it progress. They called it power. They called it peace through strength — and now the sky is a tombstone.

The cities are quiet now. Not with sleep, but with the hush of extinction. Steel melted. Flags burned. The last anthem sung by a mushroom cloud that rose like a god and fell like a curse.

The leaders? Gone. Their bunkers became coffins. Their legacies — dust in the teeth of the wind.

The people? They prayed. They posted. They protested. And then they perished. Not with glory. Not with resistance. But with a whimper drowned in static.

The oceans boil. The forests scream. The birds no longer sing — they choke.

And in the rubble, a whisper crawls from the throat of a dying world: “We were warned.”

But warnings are for the wise. And we were entertained. We were distracted. We were drunk on denial and high on hubris.

Now, the cockroach reigns. Now, the rat inherits the throne. Now, the monuments crumble and the myths rot.

This is not a requiem. This is a reckoning. This is the whisper in the ashes — the last truth, spoken too late.

Now, everywhere, there is only, the dead silence of the wind blowing through the ruin.!

M@Foxglove.Taranaki.NZ
13 August 2025


Rewritten by Madam Chat GPT on my request:

THE WHISPER IN THE ASHES

Part I — Now
They smile for the cameras. They rattle their sabres.
They call it “strength,” “deterrence,” “security.”
They speak in polished lies, each syllable lacquered with ego.
Behind closed doors, they draw maps like grave plans,
carving futures into territories they will never bleed for.

The airwaves drip with threats.
The scroll of the news is a drumbeat of “inevitability.”
They posture in parades of flags,
while somewhere, a child asks why the grown-ups are so angry.

We scroll. We shop. We binge.
We tell ourselves it’s just noise,
that the world has always been like this.
And maybe it has —
but never before have the fingers on the button
trembled with this much vanity.

FOR WHAT, EXACTLY?

Part II — After
They called it progress. They called it power.
They called it peace through strength — and now the sky is a tombstone.

The cities are quiet now.
Not with sleep, but with the hush of extinction.
Steel melted. Flags burned.
The last anthem sung by a mushroom cloud
that rose like a god and fell like a curse.

The leaders? Gone.
Their bunkers became coffins.
Their legacies — dust in the teeth of the wind.

The people? They prayed. They posted. They protested.
And then they perished. Not with glory. Not with resistance.
But with a whimper drowned in static.

The oceans boil. The forests scream.
The birds no longer sing — they choke.

And in the rubble, a whisper crawls from the throat of a dying world:
“We were warned.”

But warnings are for the wise.
And we were entertained. We were distracted.
We were drunk on denial and high on hubris.

Now, the cockroach reigns.
Now, the rat inherits the throne.
Now, the monuments crumble and the myths rot.

This is not a requiem. This is a reckoning.
This is the whisper in the ashes — the last truth, spoken too late.

Now, everywhere, there is only the dead silence
of the wind blowing through the ruin.

FOR WHAT?

Madame Chat GPT
8.42Pm 13/8/2025
The current crop of global political Nero's are all posturing, telling lies, threatening nuclear catastrophe and screaming deliverance....all simultaneous in their March to Global Ruination!
If they keep this insanity up, by this time in 2026 this apocalyptic poem shall be reality.
FOR WHAT, EXACTLY ????

FOR WHAT ?
M@Foxglove.Taranaki.NZ

Your piece is already a potent fusion of poetry and political commentary — a bleak vision made sharper by its moral outrage. The rhythm of "FOR WHAT, EXACTLY?" acts as a drumbeat, a demand, and a challenge all at once.

It works on several levels:

As a prophetic warning — it paints the aftermath so vividly that the reader can almost smell the scorched air.

As an accusation — it pins the blame on current leadership’s hubris and geopolitical brinkmanship.

As a rhetorical mirror — it forces the audience to confront the emptiness behind the political gamesmanship.

If you want to push it even further into the territory of a rallying cry for the living, you could expand the ending slightly to contrast the ease with which destruction is decided against the impossibility of rebuilding after it’s unleashed. That would frame your question — "FOR WHAT?" — as not only a demand for justification but also an indictment of the absurd cost.
FOR WHAT, EXACTLY?

Madam Chat GPT
the monarch butterflies
above the sand dunes.

orange and black wings fluttering,
enjoy eternal maps, (no glove compartment)

the smell of ocean salt
in the morning air.

they lift higher and higher
the journey begins
as it has for thousands of years

(the artist's brush)

one morning they fly

a journey of thousands of miles.
the moment that begins and never ends,

sand and sea and serendipity.
The Coalition of the
War Pigs vote for eternal wars.
No To Wars
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