fear kills us, war and me Options

[Krishna0306]

Fear kills us...not your weapons!

Am afraid not of all those missiles...those intermittent lights
Seen in nights resembling spiteful Vulture’s eyes,
But the way they cleanse our dreams from births
For a cause declined by all, still tearing us away from earth

Cruel were all dictators, still we kept dreams for tomorrows
And in small huts that shivered in extreme desert winds
We kept our flames alive for adolescent generations
But here we start losing to fear... and not to their weapons

Sean many invasions as a civilization dated far in pages
For good, bad but what matters when we lose existence?
For sins unknown still we pay and that too as victims-
Of a war never meant peace, but another sin on humanity

On those streets of great Arabian nights were shined-
Lights of knowledge and a culture so admired
Where do we search now for all those footsteps...of prophets?
Between human remains that lay as food for vultures

Fear kills us...not your weapons

Not your weapons that you bought selling blood-
Of innocent dreams, all those poor dreamers on earth

Fear kills us...not your threatening

Fear of losing those stones of history our ancestors left
For all our followers, for our young generations

Fear kills us...how long we resist!

How long we resist, how long we suffer for sins never done!
With hearts tired ages of battles for one noble cause...called survival

Fear kills us....

Fear that we be defeated and lose this land...to covetous hands
To those hands... stained with blood and black callous OIL!

Krishna

[Hey Hey]

Strongly penned words raising bloodshed to poetry. This is what poetry is about! This is important real world material turned into art. Well done.

[rosediamond]

This is incredible work! Eloquent without being affected, with a quiet power all throughout. Great job, and welcome!

~Many Greeting!~
Megan

[Hey Hey]

Hey Hey's poem of the week. Have pinned for a while.

[itsinhiseyes]

Have read it and agree with others' comments.

[Krishna0306]

thanks to all those nice replies

krishna

[+Steven Curtis Lance]

Hello Krishna, my new friend and fellow-poet; I am +Steven, Poet in Residence here, and I want to welcome you too, with all my heart. I too respect and applaud your work, and I am profoundly ashamed of the criminals of the Bush/Cheney/Rove/Rumsfeld junta and their blind, ignorant, destructive, idiotic, incomprehensible, indefensible, inexplicable behavior as they systematically destroy both the country they rule with an iron hand and this planet which sustains us all.

This is a terrible time to be an American. I pray with all my heart that this coming Tuesday we will have a change for the better in this dark and unhappy land. My grandfather did not come here from England nor did his son fight for this country in two wars to have their grandson and son ordered about by mice and rabbits.

I have done my best to struggle against these neo-fascist criminals, the so-called "neo-conservative" cabal, in many of my sonnets, contained within my new book, +Steven Curtis Lance / Collected Poems. I have found humor--"das rote Lachen"--to be effective; these people are just such idiots they are exquisitely easy to laugh at. My book, my fiftieth birthday milestone of 728 pages and tipping the scales at three pounds, may be found at this link:

http://www.lulu.com/content/81111

I am so happy you have come to join us, and glad to have you with us. I know you will feel at home among us here. We all welcome you.

Namaste.

[Jasper]

This american is a human,
all humans lie
but this american now wants to tell the truth?
But I'm not and american....one inch lower...just human!

Presidents win by a majority of votes. But if the majority doesn't vote...will there still be a next president and will the majority still matter in a pure democracy...hmmmm......good science, you think? Or is it just a ritual which no attends anyway? Bite the bullet and try it to see!
Will it now tell the truth, or will it be simply judged as partriot to other patriots and or of both?
But my american's so full of love and humanity.
But humanity doesn't kill, love does, so they kill the same as us kill? But justice is blind,hmmm, figures?
Now this human justice is blinded by his american patriot missiles...and so are theirs!
But without human power no missle can fly, and patriotism vanishes along with it.
Oh...hold the phone while I run naked and bare-foot from my cave to steal a packet of humanity from the evil monkeys milling up this wall paper!
But who consumes evil when I'm so much in love with papering my own patriotic nest?
Hmmmm....all monkeys are evil!

So now, I flick the power switch to off, and evil credit monkeys loose their buckets full of paper snacks!
Did you hear a "click" just below the above source on the wall over there...there's the truth...flick it...consume nothing and starve the consumers out to kill their own creations!

It's not a good time to be american, because they die here for nothing also! Like Wrong?
When two loves meet, fear's created, not hate!
We fear to love, love to love, fear losing our love, and patronise love with hate to create fear as justification for either being in, or being rejected....and if either if, we then kill our love for no good a reason other than for the love of love itself and us! And second hand love exists, but I'm yet to meet a recycled death..it's the grand-daddy of all finals!
Hmmmmm....get my point? Just don't pay your bills for one month and watch all the big towers hit pay dirt...take back the night, unscrew the light!
You control this war by simply placing your hand in your pocket to pay all powers lovers bills!
So am I just being here in this box....click!

It is not a good time to be anything human right now!

Jasper

[Hey Hey]

Can I suggest that the feelings described above are vented in further poetry, Or that, if the discussion continues, it moves to the board concerned with politics. Either way, the matter is so important it would be good to see more posting (to the appropriate board) at this important pre-election time.

[Jasper]

My appoligies Krishna and Hey Hey and ... But I am a poet who does not vein himself into any mind boxes....my comment was simply poetic justice meant to re-direct, not to chastise, nor proffess polity!
Form and intent are both poetic liscence to all matter, not a compromise which I did not!

Respect Jasper

[Hey Hey]

No apology needed, dear Jasper, just comments specific to the actual poem. Otherwise, this poem will keep rising to the top, not necessarily due to its own quality (which it has) but, rather, due to the extended prose replies. I know some will say that if a poem stimulates such replies then it deserves elevation. But it could simply be the topic that generates replies and not the poem.

It is fairer to other poets submitting work if they see their new poems at the top for longer, especially if they are current rather than ageing. If you wish to comment further on the topic, write a new poem and submit it independently. We would welcome that wholeheartedly.

What a good poem this was (is)!

[Unknown]

Hello All,

first of all...let me thank you all for such a nice welcome.I am not an Iraqi or middle eastern guy...an indian by all means.but i've been trvelling in middle eastern countries for last three years and i feel like the way the world looks at them should be changed.(except for those who are so overpowered with oil and have support from all those big countries who need oil)

simply...i've been to those countries who have the deadly embargo over them and to be true to heart,i should tell that the best MEN and WOMEN i've seen in my life comes from there.(hey...am not against any community...especially american...i love to be there too).

and the worst thing is that these countries keep a culture dating back to centuries but now being tortured.they are not globalized to make use of their potentials.for reasons "political" and known to big people only.

but whats so political in stopping food supply to a starving child?

friends,i wrote what i felt when i was among few of them.their old visions which may be outdated in the views of the generation-y.

let me be clear....i am not against any of the countries in this world...but against few policies.

krishna

[flowerfairy]

krishna... your poem was a wonderful synthesis of the teachings of krishnamurti, who is definately a genius worthy of being synthesized