War

The father is not here

O Lord bring him home

The cuts on his arms

His face made...

My uncle fought at Normandy

But never told a soul

My father joined the Navy

But...

There's a strange kind of war

Where words do the fighting

Behind every message, a bomb...

Evil has been shown to be weak many times before.

This is obvious by its poor performances in every...

We were young, We were young

A young man and his best friend

enrolling into the war to end...

War kills flowers
They are born like a bud blooming
On a spring morning, innocent and new...

Where gunfire and explosions have filled poisoned air,

Now pleas of wounded and dying underline a...

Bombs in the rain
The feel of shrapnel cutting through my skin
Since when was my heart so...

Everybody knows where they were that morning.

9:00am

September 11, 2001

It was...

Gossamer feather on shoulder bare

Intricate halo adorn shiny hair

Watching the tide of...

Eye in the sky
Sharon Maria Moemise

Witness to the days of slavery and segregation
To...

I hear you.
I see you.
I am you.
Peace fills my eardrums every second of a day....

They'll stab you in the back,

right to your face,

they correct the wrongdoing in no way,...

Byzantine remnants on a northern shore,

remnant of what they have in store,

past historic...

When I was haunted by your memory long ago

I walked

a road that was hardened by autumn...

PRECIS OF A DREAM:

A mauve heart glistens pulse of upshot downscale midtown traffic...

...

The streets are dusty
eyes still crusty
from lack of sleep
but still
we must...