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News Flash
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Sometimes we write and it is only afterwards we realize it wasn't as good a write as we are capable of, someone pointed that out to me about my poem this morning and after careful consideration and re-reading I decided she was right


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News Flash

 

Another child soldier dead

buried in the peace

The babe of a mother

a father’s worst dread

Tears drowning his memory

that can’t be renewed

Neath the Stars and the Stripes

his body is viewed

 

Like Vietnam’s lost legacy

of death and demise

For the flag of a nation

once more so many have died

Parent’s prayers unheeded

because the bureaucrats lied

 

Our point has been made…

hear the president declare

We’ll bring home our boys

in just one more year

We’ve taught them A-Rabs a lesson

not sure what it was

With the lives of our youth

we sacrificed national fear

 

 
 


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 Reviews of "News Flash"
Reviewed by Kathryn Collins (Reader)
Reviewed on March 24, 2007
Fee:

A quiet sadness and then a rage comes over me with your words. Well said.

hugs,
Kathy

Reviewed by Karen Cino
Reviewed on March 22, 2007
A powerful write. You have wrapped up all our feelings here. Bring our boys back home!!!

~hugs~
Karen

Reviewed on March 22, 2007
This pen speaks VOLUMES!
It's sad noone has learned alot YET!
This is another gem of yours, for me to treasure!
Thanks FEE for sharing your heart on these VERY IMPORTANT Matters!

WArmly,WArrior Lady Sheeeoox

Reviewed by Suzie Palmer
Reviewed on March 21, 2007
Thank you for this compassionate poem Dear Fee!
I wonder if those 'in charge' would sacrifice their lives to ease their self-created and now 'national/international fear'. Oh it's such a mess! Not one life should have been lost. And, the Arabs -- it seems we have been taught the lesson (Not one that you, I and the rest of humankind needed to learn -- only those who make the rules)
Sadly, Suzie :-(

Reviewed by Kate Burnside
Reviewed on March 21, 2007
Right between the eyes, Pops. Stark and powerful verse that pulls no punches yet lands a body-blow and and a wake-up call to the heart and mind. Needs to be engraved on a stone and lobbed through a White House window, I think...!!

Reviewed by Miss Pandora (Reader)
Reviewed on March 21, 2007
Oh Fee the diversity of your pen is superb! Your message is powerful and brilliantly conveyed...when and how will we ever learn? There has to be some sanity somewhere...stunning! Missed reading you but will enjoy catching up with you, hope all is well? Love and hugs, Panda ;) x

Reviewed on March 21, 2007
Sad and powerful dear cousin, wonderful write. Love & hugs.

Reviewed by Karen Vanderlaan
Reviewed on March 21, 2007
powerful and moving

Reviewed by Tinka Boukes
Reviewed on March 21, 2007
Sad senario for sure!!

Love Tinka

Reviewed by CJ Heck
Reviewed on March 21, 2007
Very well done, Fee. I always get a little choked up when I read these poems about the military.
Love,
CJ

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on March 20, 2007
it's been a travesty and one that has lasted much too long ... the energies have been misdirected ... i only hope we can learn to correct this situation before many more perish and are maimed ..

powerfully rendered news flash, Felix ...

Reviewed on March 20, 2007
What they are doing over there is a travesty. And yet if we kill the enemy, we are PUNISHED while they get away with murder (LITERALLY)! NOT fair! God help the innocent ones! Powerful write, Fee; well done! :(

(((HUGS))) and much love, your friend in Tx., Karen Lynn. :( >tears <

Reviewed by Susan Sonnen
Reviewed on March 20, 2007
Well done, Felix.

Reviewed by Susan de Vegter
Reviewed on March 20, 2007
Amen, Fee and thank you!! When it cones to new elections watch everything turn around again. Lies, lies and more lies. You would think the majority would be tired of it. Let a student terrorize another student. Let the baseball team have a difference in opinion between coashes and let a motorist vent . These are examples of energies that promote opinions and results. Why can't we all be able to stand for this war beong over just the same. If the majority spoke up and then voted their voices at the polls...things would change. There's power in opinion followed up by results ajnd there's power in the people.
Thank you! I'll step down now....
Curtsy!
Susan

Reviewed by Elizabeth Taylor (Reader)
Reviewed on March 20, 2007
My heart goes out to those who have people there, and those that have lost people there. My wish is that it doesn't turn into another "crucify the soldiers" as the Viet era did. We need to hang Bushit by the balls to really get any justice and Cheney along with him.

A splendid poem, Fee. You are always a pleasure to read.

Elizabeth

Reviewed by Rose Rideout
Reviewed on March 20, 2007
It is so sad that our children are sent to death. So heartbreaking, it makes me want to cry. They say one more year but you are right, how many more will lose their lives before that.Thank you Felix.
Love your Cuz, Rose XOXO


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