O! For my daughters!
Freedom out of the ash rises,
O! For my children, she rises;
Kindness and love and joy and life.
Where shall they walk, I pray?
Who, I ask, will light their way?
What shall I leave them?
O! For my daughters!
For them war seems so far away;
A whispered word of grown-up shadows
As they play under the bright eyes [...]
Archive for April 12th, 2006
FOR MY DAUGHTERS; PEACE
Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2006 | 21 Comments »
WHO AMONG US
Posted in WHO AMONG US, bereavement, protest poetry, sovereign on April 12, 2006 | 5 Comments »
Who among us hears their own bereavement?Who hears the last train coming?Who hears the final toll?Not we, the breathing- but we sense him.What sound will he have?Where will he sleep?
Ask the arid wasteland spreading out like dead skin.Ask the bloodstained footpaths if he beckons them.
May we ask our distant days if we might enter?The universe, [...]
ENGAGING PERSONNEL
Posted in george w bush, iraq, troops on April 12, 2006 | 2 Comments »
“Flaws in our civilians are one thing; the failure of the Pentagon’s military leaders is quite another. Those are men who know the hard consequences of war but, with few exceptions, acted timidly when their voices urgently needed to be heard. When they knew the plan was flawed, saw intelligence distorted to justify a rationale [...]
WHO AMONG US
Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2006 | 4 Comments »
Who among us hears their own bereavement?
Who hears the last train coming?
Who hears the final toll?
Not we, the breathing- but we sense him.
What sound will he have?
Where will he sleep?
Ask the arid wasteland spreading out like dead skin.
Ask the bloodstained footpaths if he beckons them.
May we ask our distant days if we might enter?
The universe, [...]
ENGAGING PERSONNEL
Posted in anti-war, bush, engaging personnel, iraq, poetic justice, political poetry, protest poetry, troops, war on April 12, 2006 | 2 Comments »
“Flaws in our civilians are one thing; the failure of the Pentagon’s military leaders is quite another. Those are men who know the hard consequences of war but, with few exceptions, acted timidly when their voices urgently needed to be heard. When they knew the plan was flawed, saw intelligence distorted to justify a rationale [...]
O! NEWT!
Posted in Speaker, gop, house, liar, murdoch, newt gingrich, republican, southwire on April 12, 2006 | 11 Comments »
“Newt Gingrich, the former Republican Speaker of the House, told students and faculty at the University of South Dakota Monday that the United States should pull out of Iraq and leave a small force there, just as it did post-war in Korea and Germany. “It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy [...]
ENGAGING PERSONNEL
Posted in Uncategorized on April 12, 2006 | 2 Comments »
“Flaws in our civilians are one thing; the failure of the Pentagon’s military leaders is quite another. Those are men who know the hard consequences of war but, with few exceptions, acted timidly when their voices urgently needed to be heard. When they knew the plan was flawed, saw intelligence distorted to justify a rationale [...]
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