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Haiku for 2025 [No. 4. True Peace or Pieces?]
Seek truth and justice.
Absence of war’s mere pretence!
True peace, not pieces.
Sunday 19th January 2025 7:58 pm
Limerick for 2025 [No.3. Don't Mention the War!]
Don’t mention the war, when chez Basil,
one mentions the war at one’s peril:
it's the war Jerry started,
in Tom’s face he had farted:
yes, sauerkraut’s bouqet's far from floral!
Wednesday 15th January 2025 3:33 pm
Le Grisou
On winter days, with frosted breath,
We wander to the warm, great hall
To see this sacred scene once more.
A mother mourns her perished son,
As mothers do across the world,
While washed-up men, most often old,
Pick off the innocent for sport.
Grouped women, tethered in their grief,
Mop up the personal effects,
Doused in their humid, sodden tears.
Soon, beyond anger, b...
Saturday 11th January 2025 9:34 am
Have You?
I walk out into the lush green
To a tranquilizing Kargeen,
When a far gunshot shakes my soul
And the delicate trees lose their moles.
In the presence of whose reign
Is the humanity drowning in vain?
Some depend on War and Peace
To realise the pragmatic fact that
Conflicts can be dealt with ease,
While some still continued to tease,
Others relentlessly aimed t...
Wednesday 1st January 2025 7:13 am
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