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Category Archives: justice
Fire: RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #225 Strike&Hunger
Do you remember Bobby Sands, sixty-six days as a nation prayed? Hunger strikes the match that lights the fire that keeps on burning. Haiku challenge from: RonovanWrites #Weekly #Haiku #Poetry Prompt #Challenge #225 Strike&Hunger
Posted in fire, haiku, Ireland, justice, Liberation, poem, Poetry, tanka, Uncategorized, writing
Tagged Bobby Sands, challenge, haiku, hunger strike, Ireland, oppression, poem, poetry, political prisoners, prison, tanka, writing
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Uncle Sam’s Muslim Ban
We want to ban Muslims from coming to America because it is a lot more socially acceptable for Uncle Sam to kill them when they are in their own countries rather than here in America unless, of course, they are … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, america, american dream, apathy, bigotry, Black Lives Matter, civil rights, collateral damage, cops, death, democracy, drones, empathy, empire, greed, human rights, Iraq, justice, Muslim Ban, Muslims, New York, poem, Poetry, police brutality, refugees, slavery, Syria, taxes, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance, Yemen
Tagged Afghanistan, America, american dream, bigotry, Black Lives Matter, ignorance, iraq, Muslim Ban, palestine, poem, poetry, slavery, Syria, taxes, Trump, war, war tax resistance
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We’re The Elves
Blaming the president and not ourselves is like blaming santa and not his elves We’re all to blame They keep controlling us with fear so we pay our taxes year after year We’re all to blame … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, america, american dream, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, civil rights, collateral damage, Dakota Access Pipeline, death, democracy, drones, empire, ethnic cleansing, fear, freedom, Gaza, greed, guilt, history, Howard Zinn, human rights, humanity, Iran, Iraq, justice, Kaepernick, Liberty, life, media, MLK, Native Americans, oil, poem, Poetry, racism, refugees, Saudi Arabia, singing, slavery, song, Standing Rock, Syria, taxes, Ter Gas, terrorism, Trump, Uncategorized, veterans, Vietnam, violence, war, war tax resistance, West Bank, writing, Yemen
Tagged Afghanistan, America, Bush, greed, humanity, iraq, music, news, Obama, poem, poetry, Song, taxes, terrorism, Trump, violence, war, war tax resistance
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Palestinian Cigarettes
Palestinian cigarettes burn extremely fast it seems like, to make them last we have to stop, or turn back the clock. Some say its fate that makes them burn this way. I met an old man, an olive farmer in a small … Continue reading
Posted in farm, farming, fire, human rights, justice, life, Olive trees, Palestinian Cigarettes, Palestinians, poem, Poetry, trees, Uncategorized, violence, West Bank, writing
Tagged farming, fire, olive trees, olives, palestine, Palestinian Cigarettes, Peace, poem, poetry
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May Day
It’s May Day May Day May Day come, workers of the world unite and fight for justice tell all the boys and girls that today’s the day, no need to pray we’ll stand up and we’ll fight and we won’t … Continue reading
Posted in american dream, collateral damage, human rights, justice, Massachusetts, May Day, poem, Poetry, poverty, religion, soul, taxes, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance, Workers rights, working class
Tagged american dream, howard zinn, Massachusetts, May Day, poem, poetry, violence, war, war tax resistance, Workers rights, working class
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Walking Man
The sidewalk loosely guides us as we drone along on autopilot gliding between building and street building and street building and street until the sound of honking horns overpowers our headphones and we see red hands prompting us to stop … Continue reading
Posted in collateral damage, free speech, freedom, human rights, humanity, Iraq, Jesus, justice, NYPD, peace, poem, Poetry, police, prison, racism, refugees, religion, Syria, taxes, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance
Tagged America, Cellphones, death, iraq, life, New York, news, poem, poetry, religion, Syria, technology, truth, tv, Wall Street, war
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thunder
a butterfly flutters then dies and theres thunder and I wonder whats under the rock pick it up break the lock lift the chains from the flock sail away from the dock crashing of the stock market fell take the … Continue reading
Posted in history, justice, Uncategorized
Tagged iraq, poem, poetry, Standing Rock, Thoreau, war, war tax resistance
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Standing Rock
Standing on this rock all alone looking glass shattered can’t find home can’t escape sticks and stones thrown by a falling Rome names don’t hurt when Redskins flirt with victory the Missouri doesn’t flow to the sea it flows through … Continue reading
Posted in america, american dream, bigotry, Black Lives Matter, civil rights, climate change, Clinton, collateral damage, Dakota Access Pipeline, DAPL, death, democracy, dreams, earth, Edward Bernays, empathy, empire, environment, fear, Ferguson, fish, freedom, government, greed, history, human rights, humanity, idle no more, ignorance, justice, Kaepernick, Liberty, life, Native Americans, nature, NFL, oceans, oil, poem, Poetry, politics, poverty, prison, propaganda, racism, Sioux, Standing Rock, taxes, Trump, Uncategorized, war, war tax resistance, water, world war one, world war two, writing
Tagged addiction, Afghanistan, America, american dream, bigotry, bread and circuses, Clinton, collateral damage, Dakota Access Pipeline, DAPL, death, democracy, dreams, drugs, empire, greed, humanity, ignorance, iraq, justice, Kaepernick, love, National Anthem, Native Americans, nature, NFL, Peace, poem, poetry, poverty, Propaganda, racism, Sioux, Standing Rock, suicide, Trump, truth, war, war tax resistance, water, Water is Life, writing
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Decade & a Half Much Like The Rest
The military industry has won year after year after year after years it’s just reruns war is certainly here to stay and we just blew up a Syrian army base without a trace of remorse and of course no one … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, Afghanistan, america, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, civil rights, collateral damage, death, democracy, dreams, driving, drunk, earth, Edward Bernays, empathy, empire, environment, farm, farming, fear, fire, Football, free speech, freedom, god, government, grandfather, hatred, history, Howard Zinn, human rights, humanity, hunger, ignorance, Iraq, Jesus, justice, Kaepernick, Liberty, life, memories, peace, poem, Poetry, police, police brutality, propaganda, racism, slavery, solidarity, taxes, Uncategorized, veterans, Vietnam, violence, war, war tax resistance, writing
Tagged Afghanistan, America, american dream, collateral damage, death, democracy, dreams, empire, humanity, iraq, poem, poetry, slavery, truth, veterans, war, writing
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Real Eyes
My eyes are burning as I’m falling through space galaxies become stars I fall further from grace and the race has no ending, I begin to realize that these signals they’re sending are just coded lies and these … Continue reading
Posted in american dream, bible, church, civil rights, collateral damage, death, democracy, dreams, empathy, environment, farming, fear, fire, free speech, freedom, Garden, god, government, happiness, hatred, human rights, humanity, imagine, justice, Liberty, life, love, memories, music, nature, peace, people, poem, Poetry, rain, religion, stars, summer, time, travel, trees, truth, Uncategorized, universe, violence, war, water, writing
Tagged american dream, collateral damage, death, democracy, dreams, lies, love, Peace, poem, poetry, space, time, truth, universe, war, writing
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