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Protest walls

hundreds of brave young men
take up positions --
March Madness begins

Paul David Mena

time runs out
the battle begins --
two cocks fight

h. gene murtha

a-bombs to e-bombs what if we run out of letters

Cindy

 

If those bombs are so
smart - how come they can’t add two
and two to make peace?

Louise Rill

 

 

they speak of war heads
decapitation
metal doesn't bleed

--semi

operation decapitation sophisticated attack
          for the head       of one man

benita

NY marathon
the indecent race of liars
to kill people

 

"Forge an Empire !"
the new game ad on yahoo
next to their hope of war

Serge Tomé

 

The President speaks --
outside a dog barks
at its own echo

Paul David Mena

 

 

towards peace
less cars
more bicycles

Daniel Py (France)

 

 

nightmarish night :
yersterday evening
the Fuhrer on TV

Serge

in the aftermath
one million starving children --
is this victory?

j r snyder

dawn of spring---
monies used to fight iraq
could feed the world

r.wilson

 

Bientôt le printemps
les injures fleurissent
d'un continent à l'autre

Spring soon -
flowering insults
between continents

Daniel Py (France)

 

 

 

female activists naked in a field a protest against testosterone

marlene

 

stars & stripes duct tape the many nonlaughable things it can't fix

marlene

departing troops    adrenalised smiles
         e-merging     from childhood

sprite

Preventive cleaning
of a turkish carpet :
a bill in billions

Daniel Py

 

on his branch
a falcon sizes up
the waste

 

U.S.
against
us

 

Daniel Py (France)

 

 

beside the news
from the arms inspectors -
lotto numbers

Alison (UK)

 

they march to war
with eyes of the dead . . .
not seeing, not seeing

Ron Moss (Tasmania)

 
 
 
one more family away from home under a blanket called a tent
us versus them in between children with no choice in the matter
i wish ground forces meant forces within the ground

Marlene Mountain

Once a holy night
now an empty cradle
bloodstained


Moussia (Italy)

preparing for war? when that boy on screen is the image of my son!

Sheila Windsor (UK)

 

human shields and/or collateral damage there duct tape for americans

Marlene Mountain

our president addresses the nation a passing garbage truck /Pdm

 

I once saw a wall
torn down stone by stone ...
another erects

Gene Murtha (USA)

money for moral
values measured acorded to gold
arms flogged for riches


Moon a'la monde

weak economy
gets a kick start
bottled water & duct tape

soji

 

Children day --
they didn't forget to bomb
milk powder factories

Serge Tomé (Belgium)

new reasons to go to war old ones not to go

Marlene Mountain

Christmas crib --
their bombs will do in Irak
900.000 refugees

Serge Tomé

 

we do not want war
our leader is a cowboy who'll
take Iraq to slaughter

many people walk
MLK's spirit lives on
we will live his dream

Monica Mulhern (USA)

Is there justice?
Their justice: Law B52
Nature, no judge, just is.

Wade Miller-Knight
London

warquake --
more tanks than ambulances
in Gaza night

Serge Tomé

this fear in my heart
aches like the finger of one man
poised over a red button

Mary Faerhart (USA)

munitions factory
invest now
to make a killing

karma tenzing wangchuk (11/2001)

"Let's Roll!" Bush screams
our Tienaman tanks through
rose-red civilian streets:

Baghdad, Warsaw.

thomas fortenberry (USA)

enough!
he coughed
he coughed again

JD Heskin (USA)

along with the wheels of war the sex industry gears up

Marlene Mountain (USA)

old men's war games the young die

Peter

Who wins war?
good and bad reside in me.
I look within.

Gael Bage (USA)

atrocity's history -
    denial
         trial
forgotten

Gary (USA)

distracted public opinion
just cause
war seems simpler

John Rowe (USA)

god's chosen
slay god's children
a deathly silence on high


soji (USA)

the last bomb
the last dead child
sensory overload

Gary B (USA)

charred bodies
    of women & children

              friendly fire

suhni

Peckerwood Puppet
where dost thou lead us now--
oil heaven or hell?

Bill Hart (usa)

entre deux mines
un mickey en caoutchouc
pleure

R. Van Muylder (Belgium)

bad movie --
Chaplin in the "Dictator"
was more funny

Serge Tomé

Ants! Gotta go and protest ...
     you stay here
          and make love

Gabriel Rosenstock (USA)

state of the union
shadows of chains
beyond the swings

Heather Madrone (USA)

seven souls mourned
graves are prepared
for 10,000 more

soji (USA)

 

on the wall
60000
where's the room for another?

GaryB (USA)

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