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ready for battle
the dog chokes
on its leather leash

Paul David Mena


first signs of buds
on the pruned rose bush
should i rename it?

sprite

 

this day
without sunshine -
mostly orange

deborah russell (USA)

 

news of the war
i knit my worry
into this sweater

Heather

 

cruise missile strike
quakers stand on the corner
holding candles

Heather

 

on the brink of war
news that the albatross
faces extinction

Alison (UK)

up on the roof
a great view
of peace

evening news shows peace keepers painting NO WAR on the Sydney Opera House Roof.

Benita

 

the planet spinning
through darkness toward days
full of sunshine

j r snyder

When I draw a line
between myself and another --
I am on the wrong side.


Sheena A. Lawrence

 

an empty bag
tossed in the wind
dreams of peace

 

frozen platform
in the Underground
army recruitment posters


sprite

 

Full moon
white tombstone indicating
a road to nowhere

Moussia-Roma

 

en route pour l'abattoir
et tout ce soleil
sur la route

 

on the way of the abattoir --
and all that sun
on the road

Serge

suddenly a thought
do poppies grow in the desert ?

sprite (UK)

op een winterdag
weerklinken junglegeluiden
tegen de oorlog

on a winterday
jungle sounds ring out
against the war

vrede vraagt stilte
tussen protestborden
knallen voetzoekers

peace asks silence
between the protest signs
firecrackers

Geert Verbeke (Flanders)

 

peaceful dinner --
a dry French wine
with my Turkey

Paul David Mena

 

suddenly a thought
do poppies grow in the desert ?

sprite

 

winter rain--
someone's car flag
in the ditch

 

pounding drums--
I place a lighted candle
in each window

Billie Wilson (USA)

 

a butterfly trodden over
corpses in a mass grave
the Earth is still turning

amputated hand
trying in vain
to dry the tears

opening a newspaper
picture of a dead child
it is raining outside

aircraft carrier
a seagull drops his dirt
on a combat aircraft

Silva Mizerit (Slovenia)

 

 

on the memorial
frost fills
the marble names

 

Michael Rehling

 

 

 

poppy seeds
scattered in the sands
opiate sunset

sprite (UK)

 

 

blood on the needle. . .
the eighteen year old soldier
looks the other way

Sheila Windsor

winter silence -
an old M4
still aims at the coast

H. Gene Murtha

 

Im Weissen Haus:
Unter dem Hochnebel
Dauerfrost

Gerd Borner (Germany)

another winter
in the dead village sorrow
unwashed by the rains


first snowflakes,
no-one to light the fires –
soon the wolves

Vis\/nja Mc Master,
Zagreb, Croatia
 

 

mundane's small square
all that's left-the
    short warmth
       of long winter

deborah russell (USA)

 

burning a flag
in the bitter cold --
the chill

Paul David Mena (USA)

Macabre Carnival
Trying o° the masks
of Death

Daniel Py (France)

looking
for anti-war poems, I find
two children playing

 

Noami (Canada)

late summer moon
warmer than the earth
this night

 

 

names without war
a millennium wall
in the sun

Benita (NZ)

 

 

Silence ...
as the freezing air breaks
leaves from a tree.

Gerd Boerner (Germany)

old pond
war weary
poet jumps in



Gabriel Rosenstock (UK)

 

snake under leaves --
onto your grave I lay the wings
of a dead butterfly

Kres\/imira Gojanovic/
Zagreb, Croatia

 

 

 

 

a breaking heart ~
protesting yet another
war

benita

snowballs
the children play
americans and arabs


paul conneally (UK)

new graves
on an old battlefield
the sun as bright

allen

 

 

Battle field
wind voice only whispering
I miss you

Burnt rose
torn from girl's hair
with one pull

Moussia (Italy)

In the storm
during the time of calm
I hold my breathe

Angelika Kolompar (CA)

War Moon !
Awake this " Floating-World "
What go grow like Ruins...

Jean-Louis d' Abrigeon (France)

 

 

 

St. Valentine's Day
the fire started
with today's news

Cindy (USA)

 

blood and roses
a heart-shaped wreath
on the hero's grave

Heather Madrone (USA)

 

 

 

Valentines Day -
a single red rose
and two gas masks

ron moss (Tasmania)

 

Pond dried up by bombs
burnt grasses
where have the frogs gone?

Moussia - Roma

 

mijn vriend in Bagdad
houdt nog steeds van de maan
hij is geen moordenaar

 

my friend in Bagdad
still loves the moon
he is not a killer

Geert Verbeke (Flander)

 

hawk's hoover
a view of calm seas
through a gun port

Gene Murtha (USA)

mother and child
huddle in Bagdad darkness -
dry thunder

ron moss

 


Macabre Carnival
Trying on the masks
of Death

on his branch
a falcon sizes up
the waste

Daniel Py (France)

 

stray voices in the alley
almost every night--
this talk of war

Barry George (USA)

 

lunatique .....
encore cette foutue banniere
a vous couper l'envie d'etoiles

lunatic
still that wretched flag
enough of a cure for stars

sprite (UK)

Hiroshima bridge
lovers shadows
kissing forever

Moussia (Italy)

à côté de mon père
son ami, dont le crâne
s'ouvre en deux

Daniel Py (France)
(WWII)

rosary --
how much time before
the Bomb ?

Serge Tomé (Belgium)

celui qui veille
verra l'étoile se lever
au-dessus du mur

Micheline Beaudry (CA)

wading through
dandelions in bloom.....
a mine

Alenka Zorman (Slovenia)

epiphany --
I know it is only a cry
in the night

Serge Tomé
His parents now gone--
A tear drop for all who died,
For a peaceful future.

Jacob Bard-Rosenberg (UK)

Wind lullaby
shutter rapping
on bombed home

Moussia

 

21 guns mourn
those dead in the name of peace
destroyed by man's guns

DC Bursey (NewfoundlandLabrador) Canada
member of CAUSE

nuclear program unfrozen the exchange of cold words and warnings

Cindy (USA)

  a sudden gust -
my neighbor's flag
tilts to destress

h. gene murtha (USA)

 

 

en voix-off
les rumeurs de guerre
puis la guerre

la raffinerie
en contre-jour d'un soleil
à la Van Gogh

Micheline Beaudry (QC)

Site of massacre;
parking lot; see children run;
girl gives baby breast

Bells toll as trees sigh;
they weep leaves where soldiers fell;
stream flows where blood ran

Christopher T. George

 

 

Beyrouth
la fumée noire dans le ciel
comme un cobra

Micheline Beaudry

 

morning of bombing
amid apple-tree blossom
scent of kerosene

Serge Tomé

 

 

my hand
on the cutting line of the fallen tree
war is for tomorrow

Serge Tomé

 

kids laugh in snow --
sinking low
a dark cloud

Valentine hearts
replaced with
antiwar balloons

world war protests --
reflected on the TV screen
red sun rays

war protest
above people the arc
of colorful balloons

Alenka (Slovenia)

 

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