-
Archives
- August 2021
- March 2020
- January 2020
- December 2019
- November 2019
- October 2019
- September 2019
- August 2019
- July 2019
- June 2019
- May 2019
- April 2019
- March 2019
- February 2019
- January 2019
- December 2018
- November 2018
- October 2018
- September 2018
- August 2018
- July 2018
- June 2018
- May 2018
- April 2018
- March 2018
- February 2018
- January 2018
- December 2017
- November 2017
- October 2017
- September 2017
- August 2017
- July 2017
- June 2017
- May 2017
- April 2017
- March 2017
- February 2017
- January 2017
- December 2016
- November 2016
- October 2016
- September 2016
- August 2016
- July 2016
- June 2016
- May 2016
- April 2016
- March 2016
- November 2015
- October 2015
- September 2015
- August 2015
- July 2015
- June 2015
- April 2015
- March 2015
- February 2015
- January 2015
- December 2014
- November 2014
- October 2014
- September 2014
- August 2014
- July 2014
- May 2014
- March 2014
- February 2014
- January 2014
-
Meta
Tag Archives: violence
Bulletproof Backpacks
Bulletproof backpacks on sale now at Office Max because your taxes do absolutely nothing to keep your kids safe. Buy one and if someone brings a gun to your kids high school at least they’ll look cool as they’re laying … Continue reading
Posted in america, capitalism, collateral damage, death, guns, haiku, mass shootings, NRA, poem, Poetry, tanka, trauma, Uncategorized, violence
Tagged America, backpacks, capitalism, gun violence, guns, haiku, mass shootings, NRA, poem, Poetry, school shootings, tanka, violence
Comments Off on Bulletproof Backpacks
I Drove A Car Last Night
*WARNING*GRAPHIC CONTENT* (This poem is about cruelty to animals. This is sadly a true story. The police are not providing animal control services, though they get county funding to do so. There is a small understaffed & underfunded nonprofit clinic … Continue reading
Posted in abuse, animal abuse, animals, aspca, death, dogs, Germany, god, guns, hate, hatred, human rights, humane society, humanity, life, loss, love, Nonviolence, oil, peace, people, pets, poem, Poetry, police, police brutality, poverty, ptsd, sustainability, taxes, trauma, trees, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance, writing
Tagged anger, animal cruelty, animal rights, animals, aspca, dogs, drugs, euthanasia, hawaii, human rights, humane society, humanity, inhumanity, Nonviolence, pets are family, poem, Poetry, police, police brutality, ptsd, rage, rescue animals, trauma, violence, war
Comments Off on I Drove A Car Last Night
John McCain Once Said
John McCain once said “Bomb bomb Iran”, but he was a war criminal
Posted in haiku, Uncategorized
Tagged haiku, Iran, John McCain, poem, Poetry, violence, war, war crimes
Comments Off on John McCain Once Said
Comfort
Sending Comfort to Venezuelan refugees not the millions we’ve long been creating every- where we please. Why do we send hospital ships there but bombs to Doctors Without Borders everywhere as if the sun’s glare makes the Red Crescents look … Continue reading
Posted in haiku, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, tanka, Uncategorized
Tagged capitalism, coups, haiku, poem, Poetry, tanka, violence, war, writing
Comments Off on Comfort
Our Currency
If you try to use our currency, we’ll do our best to help you see the error of your ways, to see that violence only pays if you have the biggest banks and you buy the biggest tanks and you … Continue reading
Stopped
Some people are mad that New York traffic was stopped today do they realize that Eric Garner isn’t alive because the police STOPPED HIM FROM BREATHING…?
Protecting Mosques
Using American tax dollars to provide security to protect mosques in America will not be nearly as effective at protecting mosques as not using American tax dollars to provide bombs to blow up mosques around the world would be.
Posted in haiku, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, religion, tanka, terrorism, Uncategorized, violence, war, war tax resistance
Tagged bigotry, connecticut, haiku, hatred, islam, mosques, new haven, poem, Poetry, religion, tanka, terrorism, violence, war, white supremacy
Comments Off on Protecting Mosques
The Gods That We Trust
We sigh as we watch synagogues, mosques, and black churches burning. We’re yearning for a better world but we’re too comfortable in this one. We watch the news it’s just reruns, cops killing unarmed black people and Muslim cities turned … Continue reading
Posted in haiku, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, tanka, Uncategorized, Words, writing
Tagged America, capitalism, greed, haiku, poem, Poetry, tanka, violence, Wall Street
Comments Off on The Gods That We Trust
Supremacy White
The red, white, & blue is still killing black & brown to keep Wall Street green and supremacy white. How do we sleep so well at night?
In My Dream: An Ode to Dr. King
(Maybe April 4th isn’t Martin Luther King, Jr. Day but it’s the day that in 1967 he most vocally spoke out against the war in Vietnam and the day that in 1968 he was assassinated. My poem includes the majority of his … Continue reading
Posted in america, american dream, Black Lives Matter, civil rights, collateral damage, dreams, empathy, human rights, humanity, MLK, peace, poem, Poetry, poetry for peace, racism, refugees, taxes, Uncategorized, veterans, veterans for peace, Vietnam, violence, war, war tax resistance, writing
Tagged Afghanistan, Beyond Vietnam, bigotry, Black Lives Matter, capitalism, civil rights, Dr. King, fear, hatred, human rights, iraq, MLK, Peace, poverty, racism, silence is betrayal, Vietnam, violence, war
Comments Off on In My Dream: An Ode to Dr. King
soitgoes1984 