Category: peace poetry
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Whatever is
Whatever is Whatever is or isn’t or was or wasn’t it is time to get out of bed
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Alley War Poetry
_____ Marvelous Marvin Hagler vs. Thomas “The Hit Man” Hearns Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, April 15, 1985 Announcers: Al Bernstein and Al Michaels Alley War Poetry The pugilists are in the desert, somewhere far from most of humanity and society. They are at a resort, however, a…
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Taslima Nasreen: Women’s Rights vs the Holy Hell
_____ Taslima Nasreen, International Women’s Day, March 8, 2007, Women’s Rights, the Veil and Islamic and Religious Laws _____ Taslima Nasreen or Nasrin was born in Mymensingh in what then was known as East Pakistan. Read more about this poet, writer, physician, radical feminist, human rights activist, and secular humanist here: Family Security Matters: Taslima…
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The Long-Awaited, Unabating, Top 30 All-Time Greatest Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
_____ Below is a countdown of the top 30 poems written by Paul Laurence Dunbar, who was born in Dayton, Ohio in 1872, and died there in 1906. The poems included here are very enjoyable and speak very well to the world, some through dialect. They show Dunbar to be unique, important, and universal by…
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Nikki Giovanni’s “We Are Virginia Tech”
_____ Click on Nikki Giovanni‘s picture to be taken to the CNN article from which you can watch and listen as she stirs the crowd with her poem “We Are Virginia Tech.” _____ by Nikki Giovanni We Are Virginia Tech We are Virginia Tech. We are sad today, and we will be sad for quite…
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Verse for Veterans: First Foe to Flanders Fields
by Richard Lovelace (1618-1658) To Lucasta, Going to the Wars Tell me not, Sweet, I am unkind, That from the nunnery Of thy chaste breast and quiet mind To war and arms I fly. True, a new mistress now I chase,…