<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524793" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Counting Skeletons Maze Masterpiece War</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">counting skeletons <br>broken dreams<br>upon destruction rocks</div><div style="margin:10px 0">lost dead souls <br>who died in revolutions wars <br>lost grand causes </div><div style="margin:10px 0">festering generations <br>decline in dissent protests battles <br>paid for in blood baths</div><div style="margin:10px 0">wasted lives <br>rotten corpses <br>dead heroes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">scared or reluctant sacrifice souls <br>afraid to offend authorities rogue countries<br>play non-confrontational activities</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I according to teenage character summaries <br>lack appeasement walk boldly where angels <br>fear to tread without orders unpredictable steps </div><div style="margin:10px 0">nothing now apparently surprises <br>(communist/overt) dictatorships <br>initially often deceive their citizens</div><div style="margin:10px 0">more honest sincere dictators <br>in home grown brutality policies<br>plan comparisons tests futures</div><div style="margin:10px 0">dictator futures <br>are mind battles wells <br>blood bath souls... </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Egyptian futures <br>are mind battles<br>wells blood cast souls </div><div style="margin:10px 0">human rights <br>watch some watchers <br>pray pain tears</div><div style="margin:10px 0">who naive ever believes <br>has ever believed histories<br>are progressive certainties</div><div style="margin:10px 0">history time progresses <br>regions conflict civilizations<br>rise mold peak enslave falls </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Pablo Picasso moments <br>painted Spanish Civil War screams <br>Guernica shows tragedies </div><div style="margin:10px 0">war sown suffering festering war inflicts <br>upon drift swept caught conflict individuals<br>consumes pale innocent seed civilians</div><div style="margin:10px 0">cubist monumental status <br>perpetual reminder tragedies<br>anti-war pigment symbols</div><div style="margin:10px 0">black white intolerant party issues <br>suffering people animals landscapes <br>buildings wreckage violence chaos </div><div style="margin:10px 0">stage left fractured wide-eyed bull stands <br>over a woman mother grieving pities<br>raw ruptured screams dead child in waste arms </div><div style="margin:10px 0">events blasts centre stage frog marches <br>occupation horse falling in countless agonies <br>run through spear javelin bayonet thrusts</div><div style="margin:10px 0">large gaping torn wounds realities cruelties <br>horse's sides life bleed potent swift years <br>devoured bull dictators devour ripe bellies</div><div style="margin:10px 0">which human skull death brews demon changes<br>overlays the horse's body escape crushed kneels <br>gore fleet horse freedom underneath deceptions</div><div style="margin:10px 0">bull's horns gore tossed rent sacrifices flesh forms blood rivers <br>break escape equestrian front facing legs sanctuary sought shelters<br>seeks knee blood ground knee in groin leg's knee wobble forms </div><div style="margin:10px 0">skull caps counting coup taken head's nose concussion bleeds <br>horn appears within horse's breast to savage despair steal souls<br>bull's tail forms images flame worship incendiary burning bombs</div><div style="margin:10px 0">smoke rising as window civilization view remembers brighter days<br>before jack boot shade gray surrounding killed impaled freedoms<br>under slain horse dead dismembered soldier rapid heat rot perfumes </div><div style="margin:10px 0">his hand on a severed arm still grasps <br>a shattered sword decay flower grows<br>his hand his severed arm sword parts </div><div style="margin:10px 0">what symbolism here crimson reads <br>written on leaf palms of dead soldiers <br>read open palm of our dead soldiers</div><div style="margin:10px 0">what on open palm of dead soldier dark passion flowers? <br>is sacrifice a stigma a symbol of war martyrdom stupidities<br>derived stigmata paid Christ symbolizes humanities sins</div><div style="margin:10px 0">stage repeated is written a cross centuries <br>centuries stigma youth symbol martyrdoms <br>derived not from stigmata Christ but wars</div><div style="margin:10px 0">what light bulb blazes above dismembered corpses? <br>what evil eye shape Satan peeps over suffering horse's? <br>head what eureka moment invented bare bulb torturer's? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">cell purpose so solitude removed from learned monks<br>cell which serves to silent vesper recite sacred palmists verses<br>symbolism relates to Spanish light bulb 'bombilla' makes</div><div style="margin:10px 0">explodes allusions to bombs Nazi Guernica destruction effects<br>modern technologies promised blessings blast curse societies<br>not a single dropp of blood spoilt fails to cry out plaintive pains </div><div style="margin:10px 0">living by swords strokes dying by degrees<br>in modern mega manic brutality policies<br>civilizations living slice sharing expansions</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Terence+George+Craddock">Terence George Craddock</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=524793" data-title="Counting Skeletons Maze Masterpiece War de Terence George Craddock" data-description="counting skeletons broken dreams upon destruction rocks lost dead souls who died in revolutions wars lost grand causes festering generations decline in dissent protests battles paid for in blood baths wasted lives rotten corpses dead he..."></div> </div> </div>

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