Jesus Christ The Apple Tree

 no toffee apples this noel
 for the french innocents massacred
 on bastille day

may they rest in peace


Carpe Diem Haiku Kai

La Marseillaise, French National Anthem (Fr/En)

Bastille Day 2016

even the doves cry
will the terror ever end
Vive la France

Sound the trumpet - Michael Chance, Timothy Wilson

The Lady's Not For Burning

2.17---------5.25

an exercise
in contrivance
in cunning
in scandal
schadenfreude
or judges
just thick?

beauty and talent
lethal combo
attempted lopping
of a tall poppy
petals too bright
shake her
till she blows apart
in the wind

mediocrity rules
and never likes
to be exposed

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Three Word Wednesday

bruise addicted wasteful


i don't want to see you bruised my friend
i don't want to see you murdered my friend
by addicted to violence brutal  racist cops

i don't want another person
wasted on the streets or in a car
for the heinous crime of being black

i don't want the life of a black poet
and a good friend of mine to be snuffed out
because of a nations's refusal to ban guns

because of a nation's refusal to
compensate and atone for the crimes
of the kidnapping and enslavement of africans
all the while
still claiming to be of the christian faith

because of a nation's discrimination
against a race who never  wanted to be
there in the first place and kept there
by force

apologies
atonement
generous compensation
reparations
and
an immediate end
to persecution
should be forthcoming
for a start


STOP THE KILLINGS

Elie Wiesel (1928 - 2016)

with his pen
longhand in french
eli wiesel
seared
the world's conscience
with the horror of the holocaust

a good outcome

but where was auschwitz's logo
the mandatory tattoo?



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