Pacifists Poems

1918


God rest you, peaceful gentlemen, let nothing you dismay,
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Though Albert was a shy, unassuming scientist,
He had the charming ability to connect with people
Through his interesting letters, filled with compelling content.
He made it a habit to write letters to all his dear ones;
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“I SPEAK TO THEE OF LIGHT”

The Master spoke…
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NOT ours to clamor shame on you,
Nor fling a bitter blame on you,
Nor brand a cruel name on you,
That evil name of treason,
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Should we all stop eating meat?
No, we'll starve of protein doing that.
But yes, it's morally right.
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Seemingly sumptuous prophecies incite
the celebrative prognosis of a social revolution.
A visitation to the perennial botanical gardens
exhibits the bountiful heterogeneity of our Nature.
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Make love and not war
We've heard that saying once before,
We even heard about giving peace a chance.
But, try and try as we may
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Which fish
The scuba diver
Is going after?
The big one
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War is an egregious blood-sucker
War is a dreadful and vainglorious monster
War eats and destroys human flesh
War is not afraid to kill babies in their crèche
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Happy 70th birthday to you, Stevie Wonder
You're amazingly talented. You're a wonder
I am writing for you this piece of poetry
Because you fight for liberty, equality
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It is very often said that there is a time
For everything, a time when heinous crime
Does not pay and a time to challenge
All which is too utterly strange and frange.
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Many think it admirable
for someone to become an admiral.
But pacifists
prefer no fists
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Conscientious objectors
and pacifists
.. are not cowards
are not yellow
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Some aren't total
pacifists,
but about some wars pacific.
Re wars they oppose
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BIRD CHOIR

When more than 1 human
speaks at a time
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Herald heard the hark
After many many ages
herald heard his hark.
Afer eons his own song
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First proper spring day time to dust
the old scooter and visit places
on roads few travel… Once I bought
a toy gun- well, I was a child-
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Read and study history, all you pacifists
and lovers of man-unkind! Even the poet
e.e. cummings had it right in the end!
Ask the diplomats who sat down with the likes
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It all depends, don't you think?
Why not just swallow the line
that pacifists urge on us
and roll over for enemies
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Terrorists should never be invited to the Capitol
Vile trespassers or terrorists are not tourists
It is inviting lions to visit the slaughter house
Many extremists are untrained terrorists
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I. Semper Fidelis

For thousands of years they've been alone
This cold place doesn't truly feel like home;
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We should have been asked
"do we identify with war? "
Do we? We do not. We never did.
We should have been asked if we permit you,
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Though Albert was a shy, unassuming scientist,
He had the charming ability to connect with people
Through his interesting letters, filled with compelling content.
He made it a habit to write letters to all his dear ones;
...

It is very often said that there is a time
For everything, a time when heinous crime
Does not pay and a time to challenge
All which is too utterly strange and frange.
...

Terrorists should never be invited to the Capitol
Vile trespassers or terrorists are not tourists
It is inviting lions to visit the slaughter house
Many extremists are untrained terrorists
...

Make love and not war
We've heard that saying once before,
We even heard about giving peace a chance.
But, try and try as we may
...

Happy 70th birthday to you, Stevie Wonder
You're amazingly talented. You're a wonder
I am writing for you this piece of poetry
Because you fight for liberty, equality
...

They staged it beautifully just like the theatre personae
The common people of common things commonly
Of the street theatres, nukkad sabhas
Or the people doing panchayiti
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War is an egregious blood-sucker
War is a dreadful and vainglorious monster
War eats and destroys human flesh
War is not afraid to kill babies in their crèche
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This is the destruction of a very beautiful country
This is the dilapidation of an inherited good economy
America has been great for a long time
This is despicable. This is sad. This is a crime
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