Radiation Recognizes No Paper Borders
speak to me of global peace issues
while hiding behind your artificial borders
radiation recognizes no paper borders
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Jimmy’s Right
Carter exposed Israel for malfeasance
For violating commitments and borders
For using U.S. made weapons of war
Killing innocent with missiles & mortars
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'Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid' (A Book by Jimmy Carter)
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“Peace will come to Israel and the Middle East only when the Israeli government is willing to comply with international law, with the Road map for Peace, with official American policy, with the wishes of a majority of its own citizens - and honor its own previous commitments - by accepting its legal borders. All Arab neighbors must pledge to honor Israel's right to live in peace under these conditions.'
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When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.
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Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memories.
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Americans are rightly concerned about the security and the integrity of the nation's borders because the system is broken. Some are concerned about the possibility of terrorists crossing our borders and coming into our cities.
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(Africa poems) Unnatural frontiers
Unnatural frontiers
These artificial borders
They cut the womb of the mother
Land into these disjointed parts
Did you hear what they say?
Here too many failed states
Have mushroomed! Dictators
Like pests are killing the people
Africa! The oracles are not content!
These artificial borders and these
Unnatural frontiers were not there
In the beginning Oh Mother Africa!
What is South Africa? How dare you
Name a country after a direction?
Mind! There is a long stretch of wire
Some colonialist administrator put it
There on purpose now how can you, Oh Africa?
Tell the whole world that is your border?
The world was free to roam in unhindered!
What's so equatorial about Equatorial Guinea?
Now follow me and we're drunk my lord and there
He bares his thick canine teeth in his thick lips
The burly official slaps the hated passport before
Us and it'll cost us a small fortune my brother
And we were planning to drink till the morning
Now look what their unnatural frontiers have done
You're house arrested in a non functioning joke
Of a state I can't come to you my darling
We're told that we're the founder members of....
Wait for it! The African Union! And you can look but
You'll never find the African Union when it's needed
And the European Union and NATO must do the dirty
Work for them and then they'll come our leaders
At the press conference to cry the crocodile tears
And bemoan the fact that white media barons have
Stolen the lime light under their noses....
Mister Secretary General...do me a favor!
Bring back my Africa! My darling wants to roam the
Continent she's tired of the passport the visa
Is controlling her life she wants to be free mister
Expel the whole Africa bloc from the U.N.O take
The slave's yoke of the artificial borders and fake
Frontiers and set us free to roam our continent
In peace without the interference of anybody
As it was in the past of our father's fathers
poem by Ngaka Motaung
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The issues surrounding illegal immigration are wide-ranging and complex, but there is no question about the need to secure our borders.
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Three Worlds
I see a world
Where love exists
The source
Of everything
A world of Beings
Who recognize
A connection
To ALL that is
There are
No borders
No prejudice
No anger hate
Or greed
Where all that is
Is all that they
Will ever need
I see a world
Where power is
The quest of
Every soul
Where separation
Alienates
Makes enemies
Of everyone
There are borders
Everywhere
As well, as prejudice
Fear ignites
All their actions
And nothing
Is taboo
Between these worlds
A world exists
Which knows not
Love or fear
Whose Beings
Surrender
To the beauty
Of life
And let it be
What it is
There are no borders
No separation
There’s observation
Appreciation
And creation
Never ending
One Moment
ONE with ALL
About ALL
poem by Paizli Palmrose
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The Dangling Conversation
It's a still life water color
Of a now late afternoon
As the sun shines through the curtain lace
And shadows wash the room
And we sit and drink our coffee
Couched in our indifference
Like shells upon the shore
You can hear the ocean roar
In the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs
The borders of our lives
And you read your Emily Dickinson
And I my Robert Frost
And we note our place with bookmarkers
That measure what we've lost
Like a poem poorly written
We are verses out of rhythm
Couplets out of rhyme
In syncopated time
And the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs
Are the borders of our lives
Yes, we speak of things that matter
With words that must be said
"Can analysis be worthwhile?"
"Is the theater really dead?"
And how the room is softly faded
And I only kiss your shadow
I cannot feel your hand
You're a stranger now unto me
Lost in the dangling conversation
And the superficial sighs
In the borders of our lives
song performed by by Simon & Garfunkel
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In A World Of Love
In a World of love of such one can only dream
Joy peace and compassion would reign supreme
The war men would find themselves marginalized
And those who love peace their greatest wishes realized
In a World of love we would not have refugees
Risking their lives in leaky boats for Lands beyond the seas
People in drought ravaged Lands would be supplied with enough to drink and eat
And no person would be Homeless on poverty Street
To all Warlords and Warlike men all power would be denied
And no such a thing as religious zealotry or nationalism or patriotic pride
Love would reach beyond all borders and without borders to defend
Your sworn enemy of the past would become your trusted friend
Love would overcome the desire for war and eliminate poverty
And bring to every person's life peace and joy and harmony
poem by Francis Duggan
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To be called a sovereign nation, a nation has to be able to control its own borders. It is controlling your own destiny in a way, and we don't control our own borders.
quote by Tom Tancredo
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Freedom
Fear not animalistic societies
like raving Nazi Germany,
apostate men like Adolf Hitler,
who have proven far too ready...
to blindly cross national borders,
now awakens holy martyr age
of shaved suicide bombers,
newly born to plague us all,
crossing neutral borders at will...
blood red pages promoting,
We were so enthralled gladdened
when Republic of South Africa,
became post-apartheid new nation,
born of brotherhood peace not war...
giving great hope to enlightened world.
poem by Terence George Craddock
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There are allowable limits for radiation going - I mean there's radiation all around us. There's radiation from your television set. There's radiation from your computer. There's radiation actually occurring in the ground.
quote by William Scranton
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Aberkah
British beauty!
The artificial moon,
The artificial spoon,
The artificial sun,
The artificial gun,
The artificial stars,
The artificial tars! !
Bun, dun, fun, run, pun;
But, with mercy and peace.
Buy, but, burr, bury, bun;
Under the shades of love!
And, it is no secret to all;
But, do make love with the only one you love.
Aberkah, era, ear, bear, bare, hear, are, he, bark, ark!
Near, the surface;
Like a fair trial,
But, you are very young at your age!
And, you need someone to guide you on;
However, your mind is miles ahead of you.
Encourage,
To buy and to bury it;
But, do have a blessed day! !
In the land of your muse with mercy and peace,
And like a Professor and his students.
poem by Edward Kofi Louis
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On What Constitutes Freedom
On what constitutes freedom we do not agree
For what is freedom to you is not freedom to me
That Countries should have borders you see as okay
But I look at that in a different way
In our thinking of freedom we have got it wrong
The Country we live in to us does not belong
The borders we create we have to defend
One reason that war in the World may not end,
You boast of your love of your National flag
To you something like that does seem well worth a brag
Suppose to each their own as some are known to say
We all look at things in a different way
Your idea of freedom is different to mine
But that you have your own opinions does suit me fine.
poem by Francis Duggan
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In the 'Nike Economy,' there are no standards, no borders and no rules. Clearly, the global economy isn't working for workers in China and Indonesia and Burma any more than it is for workers here in the United States.
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I can certainly put myself in Israel's shoes. They are humans just like we are. They want peace and security inside their borders.
quote by Mahmoud Abbas
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Start with promises
Let the guns silence on borders
Let there be understanding with blanket orders
Enough blood has been shed and flowed
Why should it be further allowed?
We know the population can't be controlled by force?
Enmity can no longer be extended for the want of sources?
Let the prosperity be transferred to sons of the soil
Let them enjoy fruits of labor and avail
Millions of solder stand guard on borders
Not moved by lightening, rain or thunders
They are our savior and protector
Let them also enjoy in streets of their sectors
Not that people are ignorant across borders
They come and often visit as traders
See the situation themselves and carry the impression
Peace is only way out and there exists no other option
Berlin wall is now a thing of past
Vietnam is on road of recovery with very good start
We need to witness many more countries unite
Come on negotiating table and cease to fight
We march with peace torch
Yet something more should be searched
Brotherhood and universal message across the globe
Where we need to search the inner soul with earnest probe
Let us dream about something unusual
This is not matter for taking it a casual
World is starving and need an attention
Let us not report murders, fights with head lines and mention
It may look not ideal and impracticable
But we are concerned and capable
To come in terms with reasonable compromise
World is awaiting fine start with promises
poem by Hasmukh Amathalal
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Carried Time Tide Currents Global Death List
radiation is raw spewing into the sea
off island of Honshū from number two
nuclear reactor at crippled Fukushima
nuclear power plant seeding sea currents
lethal death ray deadly spray radiation
radiation ripped glow fish soon no fish
dead sea hot zone death creeping raw
radiation still spewing seeping fear fish
cooked on your plate nice steaming but
what was it eating where swimming past
radiation survivors swimming is building
up in sea food chain levels concentrating
building in plankton for choice whale meat
building in snapper tuna fish for your dish
carried time tide currents global death list
poem by Terence George Craddock
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