"Start a War"

The damn gooks steal our bread
Start a war!
We will avenge our dead
Start a war!
We’re engaging in regime change
Start a war!
Stocks falter on the exchange
Start a war!

If you’ve gotten up
On the wrong side of the bed
We’ll do our very best
To make the other fellow dead

Reject defense contract bids
Start a War!
Drugs are ruining our kids
Start a War!
Those damn liberal teachers
Start a War!
Kill the fundamentalist preachers
Start a War!

It’s nothing personal really
We must, never, never give into hate
It’s the absolutely correct thing to do
All the opinion polls agree, as of late

We will democratize Iraqi society
Start a War!
We’ve hit a soft spot in the economy
Start a War!
Israel must withdraw to the 1972 borders
Start a War!
Palestine must follow the United Nation’s orders
Start a War!

We’ve made every reasonable overture
Exhausted all means of diplomacy
We’ve run out of peaceful options
Now we pray on bended knee

Get the British out of Ireland!
Start a War!
Taiwan will not join the mainland
Start a War!
We must eliminate poverty
Start a War!
We will have a Great Society
Start a War!

"20 lines or less"

For it simply must be 20 lines or less
No longer, and your structure not a mess
For if your verse is mediocre
And the subject is Al Roker
We'll not stand for it in this contest!

If you can write of flowers, love and beauty
How nice!
And if you've no rythm, meter or reason
We pay full price!
Just type out a simple screed
On what star-crossed lover's need
And it's almost guaranteed
Top dollar, you'll receive

But it must be 20 lines or less!
Any more, is a sin without redress
We simply have no time
For a longish, metered rythm
So just finish quickly and be crowned the best!
As long as it is 20 lines or less.

"Start a War"

The damn gooks steal our bread
Start a war!
We will avenge our dead
Start a war!
We’re engaging in regime change
Start a war!
Stocks falter on the exchange
Start a war!

If you’ve gotten up
On the wrong side of the bed
We’ll do our very best
To make the other fellow dead

Reject defense contract bids
Start a War!
Drugs are ruining our kids
Start a War!
Those damn liberal teachers
Start a War!
Kill the fundamentalist preachers
Start a War!

It’s nothing personal really
We must, never, never give into hate
It’s the absolutely correct thing to do
All the opinion polls agree, as of late

We will democratize Iraqi society
Start a War!
We’ve hit a soft spot in the economy
Start a War!
Israel must withdraw to the 1972 borders
Start a War!
Palestine must follow the United Nation’s orders
Start a War!

We’ve made every reasonable overture
Exhausted all means of diplomacy
We’ve run out of peaceful options
Now we pray on bended knee

Get the British out of Ireland!
Start a War!
Taiwan will not join the mainland
Start a War!
We must eliminate poverty
Start a War!
We will have a Great Society
Start a War!

"20 lines or less"

For it simply must be 20 lines or less
No longer, and your structure not a mess
For if your verse is mediocre
And the subject is Al Roker
We'll not stand for it in this contest!

If you can write of flowers, love and beauty
How nice!
And if you've no rythm, meter or reason
We pay full price!
Just type out a simple screed
On what star-crossed lover's need
And it's almost guaranteed
Top dollar, you'll receive

But it must be 20 lines or less!
Any more, is a sin without redress
We simply have no time
For a longish, metered rythm
So just finish quickly and be crowned the best!
As long as it is 20 lines or less.

Purpose

I sit among the endless burning stars and hear the divine laughter of God

"The Tunnel"
there's a light
at the end of the tunnel
and it's keeps on growing large

there's a bat
he is flying through nothing
living his life of night

there's a cat
and he is limping away
finding a place to die

and I wonder what's the time
and I wonder why I'm here
and all that I ask
is for life to last
until I can find
the other half to my soul

there's a fire
it's cleansing the land
making a new beginning

there's a dog
he obeys his master
but still he is beaten down

there's a kid
and he writes this poem
and he doesn't know quite why

and I wonder what's the point
and I wonder if He's there
and all that I ask
is for life to last
until I can find
the other half to my soul

Writing... yeah, that's something i do sometimes. blah.
*HUGS*

questions/comments/concerns welcome as always.

See what you think. Kinda based on a thought I had earlier today.
"For it All"

(I'm not sure if this is a prayer or a poem exactly)

Thank you Lord, for it all

For brother and sister, mother and father
For spring summer, winter and fall
For a stretch limosine and new champagne
For drinking and crying with an old friend in the rain
For love and hate
For sorrow and joy

Thank you God, for it all

For all Things Great and Small
For enemy, friend, executioner and savior
For high purpose and low ambition
For lifelong discipline and no inhibition
For new strength and old weakness
For great success and utter failure

Thank you Lord, for it all

For the star's in the sky
For the depths of the sea
For my place on the great spiral
For every test and every trial
For the path up the mountain
For every new sunrise

Thank you God, for it all

For those before, I will never meet
For those after, I will be a memory to
For forgotten places and new stories
For high adventure and faded glories
For every new beginning
For every new ending

Thank you Lord, for it all

For sons and daughters
For simple wisdom and complicated foolishness
For the love between a man and a woman
For stout heart and frailty so human
For saint's and sinners, good and evil
For the Great Illusion and the Truth beneath

Thank you, almighty God, for it all.

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