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Grains Of Sand

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Peer amid the Pyramids
Can you count the grains of sand?
There are more than enough there
to build pathways to a new land.

Cement them all together then
and let's do the same with man,
make the effort to bring strength
and peace that all can understand.

For in the end there will be a need
for peace if mankind is to survive,
as only without these conflicts can
we hope...

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Friday 31st December 2010 5:12 pm

The Word No Is A Long Sentence

by Steven Waling

for Conscientious Objectors’ Day

‘Ez for war I calls it murder

put under close arrest entered

this place for the word No

is a long sentence six months

hard labour dark as the night

that covers me Did not wear khaki

until forced refusing to be made

into a soldier dragged to the French

coast to make example of Owe

no man anything ente...

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Sunday 24th October 2010 4:21 pm

experimental peace

As it is Johns 70th today, here is my tribute poem

JOHN

John the artist played at a pace that didnt slack

He was a bold young figure, the leader of the pack

Quarried in that Mersey town and crafted into rock

Solid from the outset, his band was hard to knock

More talent than the many other groups that were around

The Beatles got the world to dig their Mersey sound

Apprentice served in ...

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Saturday 9th October 2010 2:01 pm

Through Differing Prayers

Nine brave souls on the Irene

sailed to show the world a scene

where not all Jewish voices scream

for a blockade on Gaza's dream

of a future without deprivation

for that tiny short changed nation

No violence was incurred today

but the goods were a token some would say

though tokens from within their own

may gain some votes that could dethrone

those ...

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Tuesday 28th September 2010 6:47 pm

Palestine...

Palestine

The living death of those oppressed

should long ago have been addressed

by those that we entrust with power,

their own comforts ensured by the hour.

Now in this world some corrupt schemes

ensure the rich will get their dreams,

while most will perish with naught to show

for all the time they struggled to grow.

Must survi...

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Sunday 7th February 2010 6:12 pm

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