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· Perceptions

· ECHOSIS

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· Said and Unsaid - Vol 1

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· Patience Waning

· Ladle Lines (A prosetry memory)

· A Gentle Man

· Pacing Love's Journey

· Gratitude

· A Sticky Conversation

· Blazing Now and Then

· Vulnerable Captivity

· The Kite That Would Not Bow

· Time


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· Barbed Isolation

· A Place...

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· Organs Anonymous

· Fatuous Beyond Absurdity

· Truth is One


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· Cherishing Sounds of Silence

· Understanding the Unexplainable

· Reality of Another Kind

· Finding Trust Again

· Aromalicious Memories

· A Jungle-rain Pastorale

· Sediment Within the Soul

· Life's Enormous Green Chest

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Tears Know War

by Odin odin@aflx.com — Read all 3,869 poems by Odin odin@aflx.com

With Washington’s commitment of troops and defense hardware to the Saudis, one can only hope this gesture isn’t a preamble of U.S. war with Iran. With war-drenched headlines, it’s easy to identify with what the media labels “conflict.” But what about our own personal battles? Those often-disappointing efforts to exist with dignity. At times, it seems so simple…this addressing of the conundrum existentialists deemed unsolvable, e.g., the meaning of life. (Image by Alarby)

Saturday, September 21, 2019


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Tears Know War


What is this creeping quietness of eruption,
this stifled resonance of tremors below,
seeping from glistening ducts its sterile cries,
littering the face of self-loathing guilt,
with the quiet pain seeking freedom
to be that which it longs to be… calming peace?

It is not a thing, this focus.

It is what living is truly all about,
the oft time grasp to just-plain-meet-and-know-life,
before it’s too late.

 

For some—now.

 

For many—when?


 



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Reviewed by John Herlihy
Reviewed on September 21, 2019
I see the potential for war, not peace everywhere. Even in the workplace, where ego and petty factions get the best of people and the end result is warning factions there is the workplace. But what about on the larger scale, of nations and indeed the global community. Again, you have ego and petty factions (nothing worse than the inflated egos of Saudis, from the leadership on down). They actually make the Iranians, including the Foreign Minister, sound reasonable in contrast.

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on September 21, 2019
All around the globe, war keeps creeping in. Fortunately, the death toll is nothing like it was by this time in the last century… 1919. Still, there are so many places that could escalate.



Saudi Arabia is in a land grab for Yemen. The US supports Saudi Arabia largely because of our dependence upon Saudi and other Middle Eastern countries' oil and gas resources. Iran is coming to the side of the underdog, Yemen. The US better pay attention to how it retaliates for the loss of oil-producing facilities. Bloodshed is not the way. Let's see if the administration is smarter than so many administrations before.



Ron

Reviewed by Richard Cederberg
Reviewed on September 21, 2019
There comes a time, I imagine, in everyone's life, when they have to choose between turning the page, or closing the book. I read yesterday that the entire United States Army is preparing now for global war. Perhaps it's time now to start writing some about all the beauty and goodness still remaining in the world. Those qualities might not be here much longer. All the best. r


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