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    War of words,
    Sticks and stones.
    Throwing punches,
    Breaking bones.

    Warring lovers,
    Kiss and tell.
    Breaking hearts,
    Innocence fell.

    Wars of nations,
    Wars of tribes,
    Playing with each others lives.
    Peace goes to its passive war,
    Is fighting all man's for?

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    thank you, darkthoughts... nice to see some action in here!
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    No worries - I posted it off the top of my head which is why its a little dodgy...but yeah, this thread deserves bumping

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    Thank god--I was feeling lonely here.
    My favorite bands can kick your favorite bands' asses.

    The horizon is right and motionless like the EKG of a dying woman.

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    OK, I'm gonna give it one more week... then a new topic.
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    The blood pools in the gutters,
    running in streams in the streets.
    Under the word of our leader, we push forward.
    Battling for our land, our home.
    Marching head first into defeat.

    Bodies lay stacked in the fields,
    the reminders of our actions.
    Bullets riddle the enemy.
    We will push on,
    freedom our attraction.

    War has ravaged our land,
    defiled our beliefs.
    We are the benefactors of violence.
    We have changed fundamentally.
    Our inhibitions lie with the leaves.

    War has ended, our battle is complete.
    We collect our dead, travel onward to home.
    The fallen's families are informed, leaving many heartbroken.
    The survivors try to continue with their former lives,
    feeling isolated and alone.

    Defintely not one of my best.
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    I finally wrote a war poem after sitting and thinking about the movie Apocalypse Now earlier today. I'm still not sure how I feel about this poem, but I will post it anyway.


    I love the smell of napalm in the morning!
    Americans hear that line and we laugh
    We laugh because we do not know the smell
    Have never had an Apocalypse Now.

    We have never smelled our loved ones burning
    Have never seen it out side of our door
    We laugh because war is not real to us
    Were it, how could we ever send our young?

    Napalm has never smelled like victory
    It smells like corporate greed and old money
    It smells like death and suffering for naught
    It smells like innocent children burning

    Sitting in comfortable America
    Will we ever really understand war?
    I don’t really think that we ever can
    Until we smell napalm outside our doors.
    There's one hole in every revolution, large or small. And it's one word long.. people. No matter how big the idea they all stand under, people are small and weak and cheap and frightened. It's people that kill every revolution.

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    thanks for the poems! I want this thread to continue!


    How about a new subject?


    death
    Buddy, you think you look strong? You’re wearing a cape.

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    Is this all?

    It’s not what I expected.

    I heard the call

    I had always assumed I’d be rejected

    What now? Another life?


    What of my son and wife?

    Is that me below?

    A man in a suit I don’t even know

    A tube in my arm, blood flows out

    In goes a preservative no doubt

    Days later, all gather

    They reminisce and weep, not party like I’d rather.

    I in my Sunday best.

    Mother, weeping, holds me to her breast

    Just as she did when I came into this world

    My white flag of surrender unfurled

    The grim reaper screams by

    So this is what it is like to die?

    Just darkness? Where is the bright light?

    It seems I went quietly into that dark night.

    Transported, then hoisted down

    Am I no longer a proper noun?

    I guess I’ll lay here and await a rebirth

    The faint sounds of shoveled earth.
    All that's left of what we were is what we have become.

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    Thats great! Very powerful, I like your angle on it too.

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    I really liked it as well!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    A man in a suit I don’t even know
    here's one of those lines which for some reason resound in the reader's head and stay with him for ever

    Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
    When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)

    bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    Even now as my specter lingers,
    Venturing to unknown light or dark,
    Everything reminds me of how
    Right and wrong I may have been to
    You.
    The faces and memories
    Have prices too high for me to bear, and
    I must retreat now to what may come.
    Now I rise,
    Great light and song reaching heads above me.
    What voices ring! O!
    All there is is beauty
    Settling as a choppy sea might with oil.
    Bearing northward to what is unknown,
    Each moment an eternity
    All folding over one another.
    Ululating gently,
    Tongues creating
    Interesting and drawing sounds.
    Fruits of love and labor.
    Underneath, a bleaker
    Landscape cracks and crumbles
    As if it has too much stress or dry as a desert dweller's lips.
    Now a visage of beauty
    Dawns upon mine eyes.
    Not my Beatrice? Maybe...
    O image of love and light, mia vita nuova
    To me come and give unto me that truth which you
    Hold in your bosom or deny
    It to my unreadier and uneasy mind,
    Now the choice is yours.
    Granted, this could be
    Hallucinations to my oxygen deprived mind....but the
    Unrelenting goodness and accepting feelings
    Release a gram of truth ringing contrary to this...and now I realise that
    Time is up for all eventually.
    My favorite bands can kick your favorite bands' asses.

    The horizon is right and motionless like the EKG of a dying woman.

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    I was having a conversation with some friends last night about what we thought happened at/after death...reading your poem was all the more succinct for that this morning.

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    Hopefully the message within doesn't get lost.
    My favorite bands can kick your favorite bands' asses.

    The horizon is right and motionless like the EKG of a dying woman.

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    Matt...I am so jealous. I wish I could write in such a manner. I love it sir!
    All that's left of what we were is what we have become.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jean View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    A man in a suit I don’t even know
    here's one of those lines which for some reason resound in the reader's head and stay with him for ever


    Funny...as the writer "faint sounds of shovled Earth" struck me more...so final.
    All that's left of what we were is what we have become.

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    Have we a new subject yet Mod?
    All that's left of what we were is what we have become.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    Matt...I am so jealous. I wish I could write in such a manner. I love it sir!

    I just write what comes. Never intended to impress. Thanks a lot, Jon. That compliment means a great deal.
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    Matt I just hope you understand the jealousy is out of respect.
    All that's left of what we were is what we have become.

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    I understand now.
    My favorite bands can kick your favorite bands' asses.

    The horizon is right and motionless like the EKG of a dying woman.

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    More death now?

    Or new?

    May a member submit more than one for a given subject?
    All that's left of what we were is what we have become.

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    yes, please!

    Ask not what bears can do for you, but what you can do for bears. (razz)
    When one is in agreement with bears one is always correct. (mae)

    bears are back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    yes, let's leave death for awhile, we need more poems first...

    feel free to write as many as you wish!
    Buddy, you think you look strong? You’re wearing a cape.

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    Une Plus De Fois
    Polymorphic light erupts and spews
    Let it ring the sombre news
    For one more monkey's gone to see
    What is beyond this coil of you and me.
    Reproduce for D-N-A.
    Pass it on, or so they say.
    It could be bullshit,
    Just a reason to hit
    It.
    My favorite bands can kick your favorite bands' asses.

    The horizon is right and motionless like the EKG of a dying woman.

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