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balloons

by Henry Burt Stevens
June 30 2008

blowed up balloons
red green and black

blowed up houses
black green and red

blowed up children
mommies daddies too

ah democracy
and freedom's air

we even blowed up
Maliki's cousin too

but that one we'll
have to pay for

dearly

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 Reviews of "balloons"
Reviewed on August 26, 2008
One day you'll wake up and there will be no balloons. Just a clear blue sky, serenity and euphoric silence. Trust me.
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Reviewed by Mary Patterson
Reviewed on July 5, 2008
Clever write,, i liek the way you incorporated ballons into the poem! WELL DONE!.....M

Reviewed by Felix Perry
Reviewed on June 30, 2008
It is scary the way the MIddle East and people in general now value life so cheaply that they will sacrifive anything...

Fee

Reviewed by Karen Palumbo
Reviewed on June 30, 2008
Interesting and thought provoking....

Be always safe,
Karen

Reviewed on June 30, 2008

Wit-wise... "ballons" strikes satire and flahes a great message.


I salute You, Poet.


Andre Emmanuel Bendavi ben-YEHU


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