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We Need New Gods: deibhidhe
The end nears: the sharp sword dulls. Its slices seem less useful, the elegant, diamond edged glance of its dark dance less fancy. Though its blue blade is well-scarred, these wounds seem slight from afar; there are just two that … Continue reading
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Tagged deibhidhe, history, Irish verse forms, paradigms, poetic forms, swords, violence, worship
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The Neighborhood from Otherhood
NEIGHBORHOOD: Lissen up, lissen up, I got a story to tell It might sell, it might not; if it don’t, then oh well but I’ll get right to it, make it understood: I’m your low-down, funky home neighborhood. Think somethin’s … Continue reading
Posted in Conversations, Poems, Statements
Tagged drama, excerpts, hip-hop, neighborhoods, plays, reality, relationships, violence
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Let Those Who Would Reform
Let those who would reform the world desist their feeble mewlings at the citadel that those they choose to fight built to resist more legions than the gods themselves could quell. Let others beat to useless, bloody shreds their fist-clenched … Continue reading
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Tagged change, evolution, illusions, pointlessness, reform, revolution, violence
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War and Peace
If you are angry about violence, hate the war-mongers who destroy and kill, use guilt as a weapon for innocence, you may think to win, but you never will. Because these tools that you use are the same that you … Continue reading
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Tagged activism, daily poems, hypocrisy, pacificism, sonnet, violence, war
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Violence
True power isn’t intimidation nor does it manifest itself by fear; lashing out doesn’t help a situation, nor make a solution any more clear. Might has never really made a cause right, only forced gentler souls to be slaves and … Continue reading
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Tagged balance, daily poems, poetry by request, power, reason, sonnet, violence
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