Before You Declare War
/…you are the decision maker
Holding the ultimate power
Before you declare war
Think twice or…
By Shih-Fang Wang
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Stop Being At War With Yourself
/"Stop Being At War With Yourself" is a short poem about how we need to face…
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…struggle beats upon your door
forcing its way inside,
try not to run and…
By Brenda Arledge
Read MoreIn Memoriam
/No matter the country, no matter the year, we hold them in our memory -- Lest We Forget
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…called for them, they served for us
With a promise to fight, not just talk the talk
They fought from land, from air, and…
By Sharon Cunningham
Read MoreFather, Stranger
/I always wanted to tell my father’s war stories.
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…learned how to whistle, then talk, while my father was in Vietnam—wading through rice paddies and trekking through jungle, carrying a heavy pack and cooking his C rations with rice and bullion, surviving after…
By Karol Nielsen
Read MoreThere Is Another Way
/A lyric for a folk-style acoustic ballad offering an alternative to war
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…out across the world
There’s battle flags unfurled
Armies march out to…
By Mike Turner
Read MoreConsolations
/…consolations in rock songs;
Too dark to see my heart.
Liberation coming from a trapped ideal.
Swirling like dust, a handful of…
By Sushant Thapa
Read MoreBuried Treasure
/"Buried Treasure" offers us a glimpse of the past inviting us to be immortal for a moment.
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…are like a buried treasure
Embracing our hearts
Making us…
By Brenda Arledge
Read MoreSaturday Morning Coffee
/Scenes From a Saturday morning farmer's market
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…a month I come here, rain or shine
for a fresh muffin and burnt coffee
served by the same person every…
By Andrew Scott
Read MoreThe Pecan Tree
/A childhood memory of overcoming my fear of heights--the hard way.
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…me in a high place
And the fear of falling
Would defeat…
By Dee Allen.
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