Competition, Games - Friends Or Foe Poem by Louie Levy
Competition, Games - Friends Or Foe
Games played, of winners and sore losers
Medals bestowed, all banners hung high
Sport the spirit, practice makes perfect,
where winning glorifies
Match the opponent components,
Physical members spec'd to order
Brawn versus Brawn, trained for a brained 'Knock Out'
Touch down for a goal, the score's applauded
Fun leads to violence, mans brute survival's to exist
Rules ignored, friends become foes
'Kill the Umpire', blind and unfair
Steroid reactions, death smiles in the bleachers
Cheer-lead with beauty, awaits their frolicked reward
Gang root with audience hostility, scrape with fertility
Youth need impress, distress and spiritually regress
Compete, incomplete, winning, defeating
Friends become foe, nations led of ruthless war game lords
Inflaming immature youth, for their deathly conquering rewards
All will ne'er be victors, an obituary legacy of
Tombstone engraving, 'Here unrests 'Winners and Losers'
May they re-incarnate as Peaceful and Loving spirits, having -
Evil treasured recollections of battered heads,
bones and evil tainted personas.
When will there ever be; an era of World Peace?
Fun games that be one of non competitive 'Team' endeavors
All victors over violence, aggression and Inhuman
controversial faith where inherent 'Love' be the 'Goals'
by whatever's Omni potently Universal
Congregate from within, exuberate that which
embraces of decent life. That of Empathy, Compassion
and inner spiritual teachings of those martyrs who
have immortally pleaded in vain that -
Love has ne'er been nor will truthfully be -
Deadly invasions brought about by the'
self destructive instinct to survive, by the annihilation
of all life form on Earth.
War Games hath no Victors
Play for Peace and Love will
inevitably Prevail
Louie Levy
12/1/2006
12: 56: 48 AM
On 8/9/2008, Dr. Santosh Kumar- Editor. Cyberwit.net- rendered these words:
Louie Levy's sublime and majestic poem 'Competition, Games - Friends or Foe' reveals a heightened sense of realities of war. There is no doubt that antiwar world poetry will have no future without the invaluable work done by Louie Levy. The extraordinary verbal felicity of the following lines will surely create a permanent interest in the readers' minds:
'Friends become foe, nations led of ruthless war game lords
Inflaming immature youth, for their deathly conquering rewards'
&
'War Games hath no Victors'
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On 8/29/2008 butt3rfly (Terri French) sayeth these words: Very powerful Louie. Actually when I read it, it sounded like a rap. I could hear this one read aloud on stage at a contemporary poetry jam. Strong, passionate social commentary. I hope some day we can all learn to 'play nice.' On 8/25/2008 JBStillwater (Janet Brennan) declared these words: Oh my dear Louie! Of course I have read athis ppoem before, however each time I read it, I find something new and utterly brilliant. Your special gifts can just be overwhelming to the reader, your 'fans' You know I am with you all the way on this one, my mentor. Jan On 8/9/2008 Santosh (Dr. Santosh Kumar) articulated these words: Louie Levy's sublime and majestic poem 'Competition, Games - Friends or Foe' reveals a heightened sense of realities of war. There is no doubt that antiwar world poetry will have no future without the invaluable work done by Louie Levy. The extraordinary verbal felicity of the following lines will surely create a permanent interest in the readers' minds: 'Friends become foe, nations led of ruthless war game lords Inflaming immature youth, for their deathly conquering rewards' & 'War Games hath no Victors'