by Marc Janssen
Violent economy, pays: blood -- storms --
While the high school choir sings of peace on earth.
In the street standing, hands raised, “Don’t shoot”
While the high school choir sings of peace on earth.
On TV hostile faces express “views”
While the high school choir sings of peace on earth.
Oh Henry, it has been a long long time,
And hate still mocks the song of peace on earth.
The violence of our days, fear in our nights,
Pleads for peace on earth good will to men.
Marc Janssen grew up in the State of Jefferson, educated in Southern California and currently resides in Oregon. Janssen is a former copywriter and marketer who now works as a bureaucrat. He is regularly published in journals and magazines such as The New Verse News, Off the Coast, The Ottawa Arts Review, Cirque Journal, Vine Leaves and in anthologies including Manifest West and The Northern California Perspective.
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HATE
by F.I. Goldhaber
Billy said we didn't start the fire
But the world burns.
Muslims slaughter Christians in Iraq.
Yazidi flee.
Israelis and Gaza break truce once more.
ISIS fights Kurds.
Indians gang rape women daily.
Exiles swarm Chad.
Russia marches on Ukraine again.
Pakistan riots.
Azerbaijans kill Armenians.
Al-Qaeda plots.
Boko Haram kidnaps young girls, boys.
Syria bleeds.
And in the land of the free cops kill.
Unarmed black men
executed by police daily.
Four black deaths in
one month capture the nation's concern.
But we don't learn
of so many more who die only
because their skin
color offended men of privilege.
Driving while black
in U.S., a capital offense.
Mothers teach sons
to raise hands, acquiesce ... but still
must bury them.
After more than three decades, poet and storyteller F.I. Goldhaber continues writing professionally. As a reporter, editor, business writer, and marketing communications consultant, she produced words for newspapers, corporations, governments, and non-profits in five states.
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Billy said we didn't start the fire
But the world burns.
Muslims slaughter Christians in Iraq.
Yazidi flee.
Israelis and Gaza break truce once more.
ISIS fights Kurds.
Indians gang rape women daily.
Exiles swarm Chad.
Russia marches on Ukraine again.
Pakistan riots.
Azerbaijans kill Armenians.
Al-Qaeda plots.
Boko Haram kidnaps young girls, boys.
Syria bleeds.
And in the land of the free cops kill.
Unarmed black men
executed by police daily.
Four black deaths in
one month capture the nation's concern.
But we don't learn
of so many more who die only
because their skin
color offended men of privilege.
Driving while black
in U.S., a capital offense.
Mothers teach sons
to raise hands, acquiesce ... but still
must bury them.
After more than three decades, poet and storyteller F.I. Goldhaber continues writing professionally. As a reporter, editor, business writer, and marketing communications consultant, she produced words for newspapers, corporations, governments, and non-profits in five states.
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