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Tag Archives: poetry for peace
Death & Taxes
the only thing that is certain in this life is that death is funded by your taxes
Posted in haiku, poem, Poetry, Uncategorized, war, war tax resistance, writing
Tagged haiku, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, taxes, war tax resistance, writing
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Farmers for Peace
When we’re growing food we’re liberating ourselves from want, from need, from greed, from seeds of fear and we’re setting the dove free to soar with olive branches away from perpetual war, away from hate away from the fate scripted … Continue reading
Posted in doves, farm, farmers, farming, farms, haiku, human rights, humanity, peace, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, tanka, Uncategorized, war, war tax resistance
Tagged Afghanistan, capitalism, doves, farm, farmers for peace, farming, fear, food sovereignty, greed, haiku, hate, iraq, love, Peace, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, sharing, sustainability, tanka, technology, war
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Eden
We will erase you, all proof that you existed. This is our Eden, our canvas, blank and ready to paint our roots where yours grew. Your eyes might watch us from your prison cells and graves and tears you … Continue reading
Posted in haiku, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, refugees, tanka, Uncategorized, violence, writing
Tagged Bethlehem, christianity, farming, haiku, history, Jesus, justice, olive trees, palestine, Peace, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, religion, tanka, truth
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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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Standing By The Ruins
Let them hold the pen and write their own destiny rewrite all our wrongs write away the suffering write verses about springtime instead of winter, write verses about laughing instead of crying, dancing instead of dying let them write … Continue reading
Posted in Arabic Poetry, Baghdad, empathy, Full moon, healing, history, human rights, Iraq, life, peace, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, tanka, travel, Uncategorized, veterans, Veterans Day, veterans for peace, war, war tax resistance, writing
Tagged Arabic literature, Arabic Poetry, Baghdad, Damascus, death, destiny, fate, iraq, Islamic poetry, life, love, Peace, poem, poetry, poetry for peace, pre-Islamic poetry, tanka, tea, veterans, veterans day, Veterans for Peace, war, writing
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Cleanse Yourself
Your W-2’s are the new draft cards, burn them cleanse yourself from war.
Posted in haiku, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, taxes, Uncategorized, war, war tax resistance
Tagged haiku, IRS, Jesus, poem, poetry, poetry for peace, taxes, w-2's, war, war tax resistance
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Checkpoints & Interviews & Gunpoints
I just got another phone call from my friend in Bethlehem who is more educated than I am but is waiting to hear back about a job scrubbing toilets and emptying bed pans at a nursing home in Jerusalem and … Continue reading
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Violently Uprooted
Follow the tracks and you will be led through the rubble that was a Palestinian village until last spring Follow the tracks and you will be led through the Israeli settlement that was a Palestinian village until 1967 … Continue reading
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I Hope You’re Crying Too
It’s been raining all day today and it rained yesterday too and just when I was feeling blue about all the grey skies I realized that today was August 9th and then I opened up my eyes and I cried … Continue reading
Posted in Hiroshima, Japan, Nagasaki, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, rain, Uncategorized
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And The Good News…?
In Gaza, the hospitals are running out of fuel for the generators that power them and allow doctors to try to heal the sick the little emergency fuel that remains is running out and densely populated civilian areas are being … Continue reading
Posted in Gaza, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, Uncategorized
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