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Karma Kill

Karma Kill
I wanna see 2 jet fighters go air to air.
Trying to kill each other.
Full range of weapons.

Beyond visual range.
Dodge the missile volley.

Short range heat seekers.
Get past that.

Guns baby...
Knife fight in a fucking phone box.

Helmet mounted sights, off bore sight missiles.

Death...
of pilot and jet.

Top gun would be over in seconds.

No1 wants to try it....

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Friday 24th May 2013 9:41 pm

Tags: ultimate dog fight,jet fighters,missiles,guns,war,sky,pilots,death

Unto the Somme

by Simon Austin

Entrenched
Behind failing lines,
These curtains of shrapnel and sharp steel
Conceal my misery,
So seamlessly, absently
I go on, numb, alone,
For sensation no longer blesses me.

Relentlessly, I force back my fear,
The absent tears never reach my cheeks
And thick blankets of earth and sand
Choke my cries, damp, pitiful.
I fall to the boards clotted with death
As my breath...

Saturday 27th April 2013 12:32 pm

Tags: soldier,battle,conflict,world war I,war,death,poem

warRANT

by Ian Whiteley

warRANT

the ack-ack-ack
of sobbing children
a tear
for every bullet
the roll of pressure
heal to toe
erasing limbs
flies swarming on open wounds
picking at the scabs
of wounded families
the searing pain
of widows and orphans
scorched flesh
hurt is local currency
guns from foreign currency
all around the colour red
lies in sticky
coagulating puddles
a glassy eyed gu...

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Friday 19th April 2013 1:05 pm

Tags: destruction,war zone,horror,death,war,war child,casualties

Bone

by Paul Sands

god said “there’s a bone in my soup”
and spat it out

and for many years it crawled
before it learned to stand

where it said “I will make you now a fresh bowl,
from my family’s blood”

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Friday 19th April 2013 7:43 am

Tags: war,god,atheism

You can't Streep poverty under the carpet... - NaPoWriMo Day 9

by IndigoAngelUshiku

A silence fell upon the city,
contorted shadows twisting moonlight.
Stuttering in a speakeasy seemed so misplaced
bottles rattled flickering like Fedora feathers
in an unforgiving wind.

The wretched odour of deprivation
a stench that sticks and degrades ones existence.
Even by day this city remains a lifeless sap
and by night the vampires feast on their misery
with fangs laced with co...

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Tuesday 9th April 2013 4:44 pm

Tags: Politics,Humanity,Mobsters,Banksters,War,NaPoWriMo,Global,Thatcher,Maggie Thatcher,Margaret Thatcher,Film,Film Noir,Noir,Prohibition,America,Britain,1930s,1980s,2013,universal,poverty,politicians,exploitation,inequality,hate,division,celebration,class,Class War,victory,battle,struggle,cooperation,cohesion

what crisis?

by Paul Sands

what crisis?

nowadays they have to pinch the ends
of their cigarettes before they cross the threshold
no longer allowed to herd the crumbling swarms
of ash across the gingham veldt

outside the window, on the pavement, lies a bible
and the radio declares their readiness is high
seems like a good night to let the smokers
in and warm around a last embered light

on the table I browse t...

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Friday 5th April 2013 8:39 pm

Tags: booze,drink,war,current events,life,laissez faire

Support the troops

by Wez Jefferies

Support the troops they say, well I do,
When I stand here and tell you politicians real values,
Now how about some support from the government too?
The injured wait years for benefit payments to come through.
That's why there's soldiers sleeping on the streets of our cities,
Victims of war deserve more after those attrocites.

Support the troops, says Obama from the oval office,
Th...

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Sunday 24th March 2013 5:01 pm

Tags: troops,war,rhyme,politics

Humanity Lost

by Simon Austin

I freeze,
And fall to my knees.
The earth is cold tonight, my sight
Is sorrowed as I place my hands on its frozen surface,
No furnace to warm me, but bereft.
Here, on the borrowed hour
Of my death.

The frost seeping through my clothes
Chills my bones, I’m lost here, alone.
The precipice in front of me is wide, and deep
But full. I keep my head dipped,
Knowing they wa...

Thursday 21st March 2013 9:59 pm

Tags: poem,war,death,holocaust,humanity,fear,hate,racism

Stop!

by Noetic-fret!

Stop!

The sabres are rattling again,
Big hefty meat cleavers
That shrink flesh
And fry the soul,
I thought,
We thought this was done,
No more the battle
For whom has the biggest gun,
But it seems the powers
That be are once again
Playing a treacherous game,
A game we know
Can never be won,

X on X off,
Your turn to host the show
With an O for the obedience
Of the masses,
We&...

Thursday 21st March 2013 1:02 am

Tags: war

Waves (A Final Letter Home)

by Simon Austin

I lie and let the waves wrap 'round my feet,
As midnight skies perform the second act,
Where black and blue so effortlessly meet
And force the waters cold around my back.
I feel the sand bequeath my buried toes;
To let the grit defy my sodden skin
And as the open door to my soul grows
I let the frothy waters trickle in.

The moonbeams push my head into a daze
And buckle up...

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Tuesday 5th March 2013 10:57 am

Tags: soul,ocean,sea,soldier,love,loss,poem,war,death

NATALIE SERIES POEMS/BOOK

by nick armbrister

Natalie is a unique lady who we can all identify with. She's a warrior woman who fought in the Malvinas/Falklands war and was badly wounded. Many of her friends were murdered for having different views, they were a few of The Disappeared. Over time she believes in peace and moves away from war. Natalie has a goth band and a red stunt aeroplane both called Mayo. Check Nat's story out....

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Friday 1st March 2013 11:47 pm

Tags: war to peace,human journey,loss of life,cost,war,warplane,malvinas,falkands,love

Sniper

by Simon Austin

I felt nothing at first.
Just the loud crack of a distant whip, the echo
Bouncing through the crumbling streets and fetid alleyways,
Painted with the stench of unintentional sacrifices
And scorched by the Middle Eastern sun.
He can see me, this one, even now,
Staring down the lens like a wayward sailor scanning distant rocks for Sirens,
Tempting him to death.
He’s watching me...

Sunday 27th January 2013 11:59 am

Tags: poem,tragedy,youth,death,warfare,war

Daddy's Poem by unknown poet

by nick armbrister

Daddy's Poem
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Her hair was up in a pony tail,
Her favourite dress tied with a bow.
Today was Daddy's Day at school,
And she couldn't wait to go.

But her Mummy tried to tell her,
That she probably should stay home.
Why the kids might not understand,
If she went to school alone.

But she was not afraid;
She knew just what to say....

Tuesday 8th January 2013 9:14 pm

Tags: school,children,lost father,close by,war

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