Humanity How Many Wars Do You Need? Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

Humanity How Many Wars Do You Need?

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trophy heads mounted on pride home walls
words of characters mounting up in his novels
Hemingway bullfights marlin running the bulls
blood blood blood sports death proves scalp man
a man is a man only when proving he has big balls

Spain a civil war your dice choices fascists communists
International Brigades arrive on street cars named desires
passion pays all expenses when arriving in popular conflicts
land begged common man dig me irrigate me work me harvest
grow food in emptiness landscapes past limited to rich riders

joy determination written in calloused hands of Spanish people
drinking just cause consumed in rebellion wine casks of freedom
human need to own seize control loaded dice spring out of control
one more drink one more drink laugh dance before we die or fight
men about to die courage question brings out rage festering in beast

eye of raven cawed more blood more blood more blood evermore
glory of battle is rich song praise sung by war mongers profiteers
voiceless innocence dies in lies evil masked as rhetoric glorious
Hemingway was a hummingbird buzzing typing in a war of words
cruel clone monsters strutted Nazi uniforms goose stepped parades

Pablo Picasso testosterone appalled enraged will rage whip images
paint Guernica three days burning into fractured masterpiece protests
racist Nazi pimp ordered high-explosive incendiary terror bombings
on a small Basque town to kill target women children 1600 civilians
as flesh burned paxed unscathed is military factory on town outskirts

POET'S NOTES ABOUT THE POEM
Written in September 2012 on the 24.9.2012.

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Copyright © Terence George Craddock
COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Eric Cockrell 30 September 2012

man murders those whom he is most afraid of, his own brothers and sisters, and ultimately, himself!

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