Tag: iraq
group name: freedominpoetry
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March 19, 2007 03:31 PM EDT --
Four years of war. I can barely comprehend how many lives have been lost. When I was a child, one of my earliest memories is of my mother crying when she learned the Vietnam war was over. I couldn't . . . more
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March 16, 2007 05:18 PM EDT --
1. Butternut Crab Curry Soup / Spicy Delicious
Ingredients:
1 Qt Butternut squash soup
10 to 12 oz lump Crabmeat
4 scallions - chopped
1 large garlic clove - minced . . . more
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July 18, 2007 04:07 PM EDT --
Ode to Billy Bob George Junior and all the Texas Bar-bee-ques
In Texas,
we like bar-be-ques
spicy and hot
We take beans and chili
and boil it in a pot
Add a little beer
add an onion or two
throw . . . more
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November 02, 2006 01:14 PM EST --
There was anarchy in
her chest when she awoke in the
morning
and found herself overwrought with
fear and revolt.
Her plight is
televised and printed off,
ubiquitously,
but caustic words . . . more
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October 25, 2006 11:18 PM EDT --
For The People of Iraq
Iraq is not a war.
Iraq is not even a country,
rather, it was pieced together
by the imperialist victors of WWI
as the spoils of war.
Then, as now, the people and
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September 10, 2007 10:58 PM EDT --
Lies and rumors of lies
cover trails of B-52's
carrying nukes
in American skies
lost in the shadows
of twin fallen towers
blinding both eyes
as they fall
over
and over
again
. . . more
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February 18, 2007 04:14 AM EST --
On terrorism
How many times do we turn away
From words we have not the courage to say?
How many times do we bow our head?
Is this great experiment of ours really dead?
We started with such visions grand . . . more
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January 20, 2007 11:17 PM EST --
Others refer to it as symbiosis or in its many varied forms -- commensalism, mutualism, parasitism, etc. -- it's a kind of existence where one derives nourishment from another organism or external . . . more
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March 12, 2007 02:13 AM EDT --
Winds from the desert
blow into the city
The sun burns white hot
searing the skin like lit coal.
The beaches are crowded
children build dreams with wet sand
while parents watch, alert for any danger--- . . . more
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September 21, 2007 11:29 PM EDT --
What will they do,
dandelions gathered,
when armies are broken
on minotaur horns,
deserts of the mind,
convoluted coils
in liberty's labyrinth?
Who will they . . . more
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June 30, 2008 01:47 AM EDT --
high cost for elimination
of weapons of mass destruction
out of control DOD reconstruction
almost lost Iraqi oil production
we'll never stop the insurgency . . . more
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