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While truly not a real poem, set to verse form, without any attempt to rhyme - so - is it Prose? The Point is what Matters - VETERANS HAVE BEEN SCREW...

Veterans

By: Tom poesyco.th@gmail.com (War)

I found this poem this morning and it has gripped me all day. It needs the freedom of reviewers once again. We must never forget the loyalty we owe ou...

Viet Nam Loss

By: Susan de Vegter (War)

I had the honor of serving during the Viet Nam War. Some friends died there and others died very young after coming back. They will stay in my heart a...

Viet Nam Now and Then

By: John Domino (War)

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Poetiprose op-ed. The lawlessness and madness unfolding in America, and on this planet, is shocking. And to see our world leaders transmuting right be...

View from an Ice Balloon

By: Richard Cederberg (War)

The first of a sequence of 64 villanelles on the theme of non-violence

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 1

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Small people raise great empires sans esteem All on rapacious claws high swooping delight The herd posts no sentinel – confident team...

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 10

By: T. Wignesan (War)

How might one batter to death rogue Nation State Much less Institutions Parties Power Groups Motherland religion Peoples’ opiate

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 11

By: T. Wignesan (War)

The few delegate power but not their role Use abuse their handymen drilled to order

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 12

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Drives the sick into secret service gutter Who then justify wars and accrimonious crime Ultimate machine waging wars forever

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 13

By: T. Wignesan (War)

The Monster’s nightmare the day when heads must go Let litter gather for the next divorced bride Who’s guilty for some good States can’t help but sow

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 14

By: T. Wignesan (War)

People in modern States have cause to regret Ritually replacing the Monster’s head The State’s enmeshed in the Admin’s red-tape net

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 15

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Covert modern State wiles mock Greek democracy Must People cast votes to elect block Parties Athenians all took part in vox populi

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 16

By: T. Wignesan (War)

In lodges temples private media companies Bound by rituals rites oaths sworn dead secret Puppet-strings in hands of secret societies

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 17

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Boosting ego is the craft of violence Insecure feelings drive muscle-man jaws He who abstains from doing harm commits offence

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 18

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Eat no life you cut open first to let blood flow Bird on wing fish that swim crawls slithers all on fours Dare you stare down the dilemma watch trees ...

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 19

By: T. Wignesan (War)

On the fields of Kurukhshetra, the longest epic unfolds in the Mahabharatha - cousins warring for the same throne...

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 2

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Does not Death commit unjust ultimate crimes Who returns from the au-dela knows true nought To what extent violent thoughts can be crimes The Real in ...

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 20

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Callow kids spray lead to warn not infidel For what glory of own faith’s idle pets Would Hindus see in Paris kill Siva’s will

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 21

By: T. Wignesan (War)

How many who blast themselves for their gods Their holy books’ basic tenets condone Does the fault lie in us or in warring gods

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 22

By: T. Wignesan (War)

There’s no business like the call for holy alms Care may the poor sick spastics die of hunger We make gods and to protect resort to arms

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 23

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Zoroastrians Zen-Buddhists Jains Taoists Do they seek to adorn other faiths in wreath Shout it hoarse on mountains how gods stand for peace

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 24

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Followers are made from day one in the womb Not gods but by men in the full-length skirt Pavlov mice all salivate stunned stark in tomb

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 25

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Fail not to get your passports all in order Make sure the belt around your breast’s not too thick The security check’s stringent at Death’s door

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 26

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Pounce not like Tiger on lone backwoods fields Never know who’d be chasing balls fallen into holes Balls roll back to earth from smooth Elysian fields

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 27

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Far more than kami-kaze terror carnage Melting ice-cap Poles promise Fire Next Time Can this polluted earth be saved at this stage

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 28

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Limousines line up for haute couture soirées Blue-ribonned chefs dress-up spruced-up back-door dates At last O Children of the Mother Contrées

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 29

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Politics' the art of decrying nations...

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 3

By: T. Wignesan (War)

No nation owns this Earth cooled out of the Void Not even Super-Man Land finger on trigger No violence more pitiful than suicide

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 30

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Those who keep Congress in their pockets to melt ice Till Manhattan feet dig Arctic ice underground Pious promises roll not smog from dulled eyes

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 31

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Ask them why on elections’ eve they turn new broom Do leaders come of age at fresh twenty-one Ask them who brought this World to the brink of doom

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 32

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Yesterday nomads roamed deserts without dough Till from under their soles spurt oil and gases Yesterday colonial centuries ago

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 33

By: T. Wignesan (War)

The rocks some throw will into proper heads sink Even leaders will no longer be taboo If only the tired masses had time to think

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 34

By: T. Wignesan (War)

World pre-ordained or Yin-Yang clash at random The Magic-Lantern show spinning wild inter-net Does blood-blast Yin-Yang tussle stay gut boredom

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 35

By: T. Wignesan (War)

World pre-ordained or Yin-Yang clash at random The Magic-Lantern show spinning wild inter-net Does blood-blast Yin-Yang tussle stay gut boredom

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 35

By: T. Wignesan (War)

The mind that’s massaged from birth makes no moan Neither those who kill by proxy for gold Must he not those who’re not his kind disown

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 36

By: T. Wignesan (War)

All day long we kill to keep the home clean Insecticides aerosols rat poison The killer instinct makes us bold and mean

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 37

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Now that gods got our Earth in a throttle Will ONLY GOD intervene: that’s the rub More the man-made gods the more the quarrel Each faithful thinks his...

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 38

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Taoists live life in accord with Nature The seasons come and go in munificence Can God come into being beyond Nature

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 39

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Test not people of a violent nature The situation calls for plans more mature

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 4

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Not one god we create respect we their wish Those who engender them wish to end up gods All Man and man-made things given time perish

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 40

By: T. Wignesan (War)

More the imagination more damnation...

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 41

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Wrap the self in fear for the dark cloaks the beast Shut the door on vile thoughts no fear will wild knock Does Death need an invitation for fun feast

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 42

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Ere the ink is hardly dry El Ninos swing How many wars will be wrought now in between The Eagle or the Cock gets to down bird with sling [Guess which ...

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 43

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Billions of years to make one of trillion planets Whose – dare you guess – already sinking in drink Men of little vision dicing for nuggets

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 44

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Truth ricochets like Le Bourget planes roar The secret’s hidden from us poor folks ill-born At last Great Leaders can reveal the true Law

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 45

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Spying on one another to undermine Using public forces to keep peoples embroiled To what future Super Men our backs supine

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 46

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Cannons ablaze keep up smoke from foundaries Daze the peoples under haze in tight whip grip The Debate’s back to more cannons for countries

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 47

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Class race religion which can most money make What takes over countries do it for its gains Prod not the elements fierce dragons can wake

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 48

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Nature has no need for mythic petty lies Nothing humans cook up reflects Nature’s lawn The ONLY god there is Is there in your eyes Infinite grandiose ...

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 49

By: T. Wignesan (War)

The art of government’s how to amputate The will of the people own voice to save And individual rights incriminate

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 5

By: T. Wignesan (War)

The idea’s the centrifugal force control Not to impose by force piercing self-defence Each gets to keeping own while making up whole

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 50

By: T. Wignesan (War)

NATURE eludes all mental means to confuse IT stands not still for anyone to pin IT Brand not NATURE God word fallen into misuse

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 51

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Solar system’s a mere speck hardly aglow Lost in galaxies countless billions alone Fist-tight Multi-Verse(s) unfurled aeons ago

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 52

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Must appearance differ from reality In as much as front and back of the same body To negate existence in non-duality

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 53

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Is the idea Maya a contresens Who would create to destroy what he proclaims Must Nature fulfil its terminal plans Can Man be content with what he unde...

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 54

By: T. Wignesan (War)

What the human mind can conceive calculate See beyond sight recall aeons lost in time Yet we believe grandma tales spun inebriate

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 55

By: T. Wignesan (War)

At what stage can karma begin the peril Quadrupeds sans will or when bipeds sin To what extent can there be room for free will

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 56

By: T. Wignesan (War)

In Steinbeck’s words Can a man whose thoughts born angry Bring peace to a world where laws of peace obey hounds To set right an injustice the peasant ...

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 57

By: T. Wignesan (War)

No exceptions tolerate no geopolitics No super power excuse to fiddle with peace No way must such protective force serve politics

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 58

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Does Nature dispose at random by whim or wish In all probability by set built-in laws Part of free will which wills ill makes karma punish

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 59

By: T. Wignesan (War)

'Should the State legitimate entity be To make the use of force It generates valid...'

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 6

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Interplay of positive-negative current How Nature alternates through light and darkness Three hundred and eighty-four times made recurrent [Don''t bu...

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 60

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Yin left to itself cannot but collapse inwards Retreat into the safety of the self indoors They conceal their greed in faces turned backwards [Don't ...

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 61

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Which Pharoah still sails to lands unknown in debt Which Zhong Guo Emperor led clay armies conquer Can Death twin sister of Birth nothing beget [Don't...

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 63

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Cogito ergo sum: I LIE therefore I AM Even if I lie Nothing’s more certain than Death Not Birth Not Life Nor this Multi-Verse logjam [Don't buy BLIND...

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 64

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Who has not wished somebody battered to death Feel in dark recesses mocking monkey breath

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 7

By: T. Wignesan (War)

The pain that M’m’selle inflicts on her toes Twists itches in bums and bosoms of hope Each in his own way straps on strappados

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 8

By: T. Wignesan (War)

Whose advice the Essene monk took in travail Whose voice the Consul heard to nail the Essene Turn the other cheek kneel while kith and kin wail

Villanelle: The Dilemma of the Non-Violent - 9

By: T. Wignesan (War)