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Tag Archives: poetry
Save Your Breath
Please don’t thank me, save your breath and thank a tree for the air you breathe and thank a cloud for the water you drink and thank a farmer for the food you eat and thank a teacher if you’ve … Continue reading
Don’t Thank Me
Don’t thank me, save your breath, and thank a tree for the air you breathe thank a cloud for the water you drink thank a farmer for the food you eat thank a teacher if you’ve ever learned anything thank a musician if … Continue reading
Posted in america, Armistice Day, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, Uncategorized, veterans, Veterans Day, writing
Tagged Armistice Day, forgiveness, poem, poetry, remembrance day, taxes, thanks, veterans day, war, war tax resistance, writing
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Over and Over and Over
Battle hymns are still played over and over and over and flag draped boxes still arrive at Dover and its a fraction of the casualties of World War One but it’s still somebody’s daughter and somebody’s son and, though technology has … Continue reading
Posted in Armistice Day, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, Uncategorized, veterans, Veterans Day, war
Tagged Armistice Day, civilians, death, poem, poetry, Propaganda, remembrance day, veterans day, war, writing
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The Poppies Are Everywhere
Marx called religion the opium of the masses but we pray to Gods of war and the poppies are everywhere and we pretend to remember (and care) and we feel so much better now and we won’t dare question the … Continue reading
Posted in addiction, Afghanistan, america, apathy, Armistice Day, death, god, government, history, Howard Zinn, humanity, Iraq, opium, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, poppies, reflection, religion, remembrance day, Uncategorized, veterans, Veterans Day, veterans for peace, Vietnam, war, world war one, world war two, writing, WW1, yellow ribbons
Tagged 100 years, addiction, Afghanistan, America, apathy, Armistice Day, death, dope, drones, drugs, Flanders field, god, heroin, iraq, jingoism, militarism, military, nationalism, opium, Oxycontin, pain, Pakistan, poem, poetry, poppies, Propaganda, religion, remembrance day, Somalia, Syria, taxes, terrorism, trauma, Uganda, veterans, veterans day, Veterans for Peace, Vietnam, war, war tax resistance, World War One, World War Two, writing, Yemen
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Only The Bible Is Allowed To Be Sacred
Not even with a thirty meter telescope will we be able to see all the damage done to the ‘āina already we won’t see polluted aquifers and an ailing reef we won’t see the monk seals and turtles laying on … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, Aloha ʻĀina, america, collateral damage, earth, environment, farming, fishing, government, hawaii, Japan, Kaho'olawe, Korea, Mauna Kea, poem, Poetry, solidarity, Standing Rock, stars, taxes, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance, world, writing, Yemen
Tagged Aloha Aina, annexation, capitalism, colonialism, deforestation, Dole, errosion, exploitation, hawaii, hawaiians, Kaho'olawe, Kanaka Maoli, Mauna Kea, missionaries, occupation, Pearl Harbor, pineapples, poem, poetry, pollution, prisons, private prisons, progress, protect mauna kea, science, sustainability, sustainable coastlines hawaii, thirty meter telescope
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Will You Lay Wreath For Them?
Eighty-three years before 2001 was 1918 seventeen years after 2001 is 2018 and it’s now been 100 years since the armistice 100 years since there was peace between nations 100 years since the war to end all wars ended 100 … Continue reading
Posted in Afghanistan, america, Armistice Day, collateral damage, Iraq, peace, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, Uncategorized, veterans, Veterans Day, war, war tax resistance, world war one, writing, WW1
Tagged Afghanistan, Armistice Day, civilians, collateral damage, iraq, poem, poetry, poetry for peace, veterans, veterans day, war, World War One, WW1
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Happy
pencil hits paper time for a happy haiku but the pencil breaks
We Always Elect A Liar
Back and forth and up and down left and right in city and town blue and red year after year election after election we eat the fear but the hungry still aren’t fed and the war dead pile higher different … Continue reading
Posted in america, election, poem, Poetry, Uncategorized, voting, war
Tagged America, election, election day, poem, poetry, politicians, voting
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Tired and Hungry and Poor
We all came here tired and hungry and poor we spent lifetimes in the factories but dreamed of so much more now the only jobs are in Afghanistan fighting in this endless war and America is tired, and hungry, and poor … Continue reading
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