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Many poets have been sending in poetry on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Post your poetry directly below.
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These posts appear to be one-sided; opinions given from the collective narrative that you, Roy Peterson, are pushing to the ultimate with an onslaught of poems that back the Deep State great reset that’s blaring propaganda from TVs into every living room globally. Where is the compassion for innocent people everywhere? People don’t choose where they’re born. They don’t choose the colour of their skin. These days, they don’t even choose their leaders, as has been proven in the latest Ukraine election. America is not saving democracy… democracy doesn’t exist in this new world order. The globalists are lining their pockets with riches bought with the blood of innocents, whether they’re born in the Ukraine or Russia. This corruption is at our doorstep. It is time we woke up to who the villains really are. It is not the people who need to be punished… don’t let them suffer at the stroke of tyrannical pens. Lena is NOT GUILTY!
Susan, please tell your Russian friend Lena that not everyone in America is falling for the barrage of anti-Russian war hysteria that is being fanned to flame by our controlled news media and the Neocon echo-chamber. (Like John Bolton and Paul Wolfowitz, these loudmouths have never seen a war that they didn’t want to jump into).
One very good thing about the last two years of Covid mania — we’ve been inoculated against believing anything that Mainstream Media says. The anti-Putin vitriol that is coming out of our newscasters and “journalists” has reached levels of insanity that I haven’t seen since the violent anti-Nixon demonstrations of 1970.
Joe, thank you. I believe good people are waking up to the skullduggery afoot. As people of conscience first, and poets second, we should see from every angle… we should seek the truth… we should spread the truth… we should call out those who deal in lies. Lena will be heartened at the fact that there are those out there in touch with reality who have the integrity to stand up for those who suffer… whatever side of the contrived argument they’re on.
With most of your precepts
I will gladly agree.
Why is it my friends
Are still persecuting me?
Roy, really? I’m quite sure that the number of your concerning words far exceeds any other words that disagree with yours and have so harmed your psyche.
There was a time when people could disagree without fearing they would be demonized.
Up until this short poem, Roy, I thought we were having a lively exchange of ideas. I seriously did not realize that you had been harmed.
If you think you have been persecuted, you are mistaken.
Your friends aren’t “persecuting” you, Lieutenant-Colonel. We’re just asking you to think clearly and dispassionately about a political and military situation. Is that unusual for a former member of the intelligence community?
You don’t really agree with most of what we say. You simply give a pro forma “Yes, yes, yes…” to our arguments, and then go back to whining and moaning about the Ukrainians, and calling for another Neocon war of intervention.
IF ONE WOULD WALK IN MY SHOES
By Roy E. Peterson (March 4, 4022)
If one would walk in my shoes,
There is so much to explain.
My second wife’s from Russia
One part is Ukraine.
I am speaking ethnically.
The other part’s Chinese.
If one walked in Irina’s shoes,
No part of her is at ease.
My adopted son is Russian
His natural dad Ukraine.
He was a naval officer.
I’m sure he feels the strain.
The mother of my wife
Went back to Russia years ago.
We wonder how she’s doing now.
We would like to know.
She was a labor lawyer,
In the Russian nation.
Since she looked Chinese,
She faced discrimination.
Irina’s mother and father
Were anti-communist.
They still found a way
That they could co-exist.
We all supported Putin
With Russia doing well.
We never expected
That things would go to hell.
Note: My wife and I divorced, but I am still close to our son. I am trying to avoid family conflicts by straddling the ideological fence and attempting to provide my strategic thinking. Several times I have said war is not the answer. That can be read many ways, but of one thing I am certain–we must be prepared for the worst.
Headline: Anna Netrebko out of Met Opera over her support of Putin
Her voice floats over stifling fumes of war,
More gorgeous than this place and exit door.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hrm59zqCKEU
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/munich-fires-russian-conductor-gergiev-supporting-putin-83174620
Wrongthink is severely punished in our so-called democracies. Why are the first ones to be canceled associated with the classical arts?
Did someone say “culture war”?
I had this crazy idea that a democracy is supposed to be for the people. I guess its only for those people that parrot the ruling elite globalists.
That deeply saddens me.
Anna Netrebko should not be made a victim.
VICTIMIZATION IS NOT VINDICATION
By Roy E. Peterson (March 7, 2022)
Don’t judge the Russian people
Who must hide their true beliefs.
The safety of their relatives
Replaces talk of beefs.
Don’t victimize the people
Who must keep hidden their views.
That doesn’t mean they are not saddened
By the wartime news.
Russians are being dismissed
From the opera and sports,
Because of the aggression
Mentioned in the news reports.
They are not responsible,
There is no vindication.
They are suffering from
Victimization.
FOR ANNA NETREBKO, MET OPERA STAR
By Roy E. Peterson (March 5, 2022)
Imagine performing while overseas.
You have admirers, as much as you please.
Then war breaks out through no fault of your own.
You cannot get back and you cannot phone.
What about relatives in your homeland?
Who will lend assistance with helping hands?
With news getting worse with each anxious day,
The only thing you have left is to pray.
Your employer tells you to make a choice–
Whom you support or they’ll cut off your voice.
If you criticize one for their attack,
You may be stuck here. There’s no going back.
You have said everything that you can say–
The war is a mess, it should go away.
Then, “I am opposed to this senseless war.”
It should stop right now…don’t fight anymore.
You cannot condemn the leader of one.
Then you are told your career here is done.
You’re victimized by irrational hate.
You’re left to ponder what will be your fate.
Japanese here suffered from World War Two.
Recall what German-born people went through.
Now it’s the Russians whom we castigate.
We should be better than spewing our hate.
Innocent people will suffer the most
While others harangue and others will boast.
Democracy means that divergent views
May be said here despite what’s on the news.
PUTIN’S MOTIVATIONS FOR INVASION
By Roy E. Peterson (March 4, 2022)
I. INTRODUCTION
I thought we were sympathetic friends
With Putin at the helm
Of the present Russian people
And of the Russian realm.
I approved his stewardship
Of Russia’s economy,
Of his support for Christians
And Russian Orthodoxy.
When I once dealt with Putin,
He was clever and robust.
He was the kind of leader
In which the world could trust.
I am saddened by his choice
To invade Ukraine’s nation.
I wish cooler heads prevailed
In this sad situation.
II. REASONS FOR INVASION
Who knows what was his logic?
Who knows what is Putin’s aim?
What were his motivations
To inflict the warfare game?
The answers still are murky
Why the Russians went to war.
Why is Russia not friendly
As Russia once was before?
I will supply four motives
That Putin himself announced.
Why upon the Ukrainian people
Russia now has pounced.
My opinion is the first,
NATO knocking at their door,
Although the map of NATO borders
Shows there are four more.
1. NATO Expansion
NATO-Ukraine relations
Stem from 1992,
When it was reestablished
As a nation that was new.
In the year 2008,
The NATO members had said
Ukraine could someday join
When some conditions had been met.
In 2017, Ukraine
Enshrined the intention
To become a NATO member
In its Constitution.
Now it’s five years later.
I wonder what on earth has changed.
Could it be joining NATO
Was the cause for the deranged?
Democracy was yet uncertain,
NATO held the option.
There were charges levied
Of bribery and corruption.
Lurking behind the curtain
Was Soros and his minions.
That could have been a cause
In other people’s opinions.
2. Genocide Against Russians
Putin has charged the Ukraine
With committing genocide
Against Donbas Russian people
That he could not abide.
It is true there were separatists
In Donetsk and Luhansk.
I think this was but a pretext
Behind the Putin mask.
The charge of genocide
The world considers baseless fare.
If that motivated Putin,
Why did he not stop there?
Donbas is a tiny sliver
On the Eastern border
Of Ukraine with Russia
That has suffered from disorder.
The Donbas region wanted
Their own autonomous state
Fully aligned with Russia.
Ukraine thought that was not great.
In a speech by Putin
It was in his explication.
Peacekeeping was a pretext
With denazification.
3. UKRAINE Not a Legitimate Country
In a lengthy speech, Putin proclaimed
The Ukraine nation
Was not a real country,
Thus, was subject to invasion.
He argued Ukraine was created
By Vladimir Lenin.
History and culture, though,
Predate Soviet Union.
Putin in a recent speech
Insisted Ukraine is part
Of the Russian Empire,
Saying that’s how it got its start.
The Ukraine was captured
By year 1793,
Under Catherine the Great,
According to history.
Putin has falsely claimed
The country unstainable,
Yet resources of the Ukraine
Are quite formidable.
If you conduct some research,
Its wealth you cannot dispute.
It has world class resources
Like sunflower oil of repute.
4. Obtaining Nuclear Weapons
Putin expressed his concern
That Ukraine has the knowledge
And desire to obtain
Nuclear weapons on Russia’s edge.
After the cold war collapse
Of the Soviet Union,
Ukraine gave the weapons up
To settle the confusion.
Russia with the United States
And United Kingdom,
Guaranteed Ukraine security
For the years to come.
The New York Times reported
Putin maintained the theory
To justify invasion
To prevent conspiracy.
III. REBUILD THE OLD SOVIET UNION
A fifth reason some express
Is Putin’s secret desire,
To exert Russian control
And rebuild the old Empire.
Although he has not said this one,
He may wish to restore
Dominion over Europe/Asia
As in the Cold War.
If that is his intention,
NATO’s standing in the way.
What price are more invasions?
How much cost will Russia pay?
IV. CULTURE REPLACEMENT
Some say the degenerate culture
Of the wicked West
Contributed to invasion
That Putin could arrest.
I have mentioned Soros
Whose acts have affected us all.
The only good that I can see,
His influence will fall.
V. MADMAN THEORY
Some believe Vladimir Putin
Is a psycho madman.
He has lost his marbles,
He’s a pariah, a badman.
Putin is not mad,
But he is cold and calculating
Just as Hitler once was
The subject for such debating.
VI. TIMING
Would Putin have invaded
If Trump still were in command?
The timing is suspicious
For the actions he had planned.
Did he think Republicans
Would win the next election.
His chances would be gone
For Great Russia resurrection.
VII. PUTIN VERSUS ZELENSKYY
Putin did not anticipate
Zelenskyy to be brave.
Putin thought with Jewish roots
Zelenskyy would quickly cave.
Perhaps he thought Zelenskyy
Would flee from the Ukraine scene
To save himself and family
From Russia’s war machine.
VIII. UKRAINE PATRIOTISM
I think Putin disregarded
How hard Ukraine would fight
Against invading forces
Of their military might.
He did not plan that Ukraine
Patriots would take a stand
Against the Russian onslaught,
Or concessions he’d demand.
IX. CONCLUSIONS
Putin’s invasion motives
I have here described at length.
Was it nuclear weapons,
Or was it growing NATO strength?
Was it genocide,
Or was it fear of Ukraine power?
Did history rear its head
In decisions to devour?
I am deeply saddened
By the causes for the conflict,
Senseless brutality
The invasion will inflict.
You may take a good stand
On any of the points you choose.
Regardless of what you think,
The Ukrainian people lose.
Poet Note:
A good source for a discussion of some of the motivations can be found in:
https://www.businessinsider.com/why-russia-is-attacking-ukraine-putin-justification-for-invasion-2022-2
CRIES FROM UKRAINE
I. Prayer of the Ukrainian Children
Now I lay me down to sleep.
I pray, thee, Lord, all bombs to keep
Away from me throughout the night,
That no blast fills my soul with fright,
Nor blows my frame to smithereens,
Rained down by Russian philistines.
Please spare my ears and fear-filled eyes,
The sight of carnage, children’s cries,
O, give me strength to live this day,
Away from parents, home, and play,
And strength to live beyond this strife,
Though PTSD haunts my life.
II. A Mother on the Refugee Road
Lord, as I walk this lonely way
Through landscapes raw with grief and pain,
I take my daughter´s hand and pray
That time will wash, like cleansing rain,
Her mind, defiled by war´s dark arts,
By violent sounds and sights that smear
A blood-streaked stain on youthful hearts
And fill young, battered souls with fear.
Her hand in mine, we stay afloat
Like flotsam on a troubled sea,
And drift downstream without a boat
In search of our humanity.
Our lives were blown to bits, it seems,
Two days ago, when our hometown
Was racked by blasts that dashed our dreams
And tore our rising spirits down.
Since then, on streaming tears we flow
And seek to ride on hope´s high crest
Among the teaming crowds that grow
In number as we venture west.
On muddy roads, beneath dark skies,
We march against a chilling breeze,
As through the day, we swell in size
– Our band of ragged refugees.
Along the way, our eyes are met
With sights of carnage, plain to view:
Dead soldiers lying cold and wet
From blood and rain and morning dew,
Abandoned tanks beside the road,
Demolished hovels, burned up by
Fierce fires that left them black as coal,
With smoke still rising to the sky.
A four-limbed mound of mankind lies,
Half buried by a cloak of snow,
As high above, a buzzard spies
His dinner in the field below.
How sad this strange new world of death,
Unlike the world I lately knew;
Its bare fields reek like fetid breath,
All bombed and blasted black and blue!
And you, my child, how can I bear
To see how you´ve been traumatized?
With love, I stroke your tangled hair,
But grieve to see your anguished eyes!
As here we lie down for the night,
I pray that God will make us bold
And guard us till the dawn’s first light,
Kept safe from snipers, bombs and cold.
That is a great humanitarian nightmare poem, Martin! I can visualize the carnage and the trek of refugees with horror covering the landscape and prayers for another night when they can safely rest.
WOKE WARRIORS
We’ll fight the Russians all the way!
We never will surrender!
But first, make sure our army is
non-binary transgender.
Ukraine’s a tragedy, no doubt,
but there could be much worse,
like: what if we should find we’re not
sufficiently diverse?
But US General Millie
is on a different page.
He doesn’t care about Ukraine,
he’s worried by “White Rage.”
So let’s look on the bright side
as Putin goes for broke.
Although the West can’t save Ukraine,
we sure as hell are woke!
David, perfect sarcasm and irony about the state of our military and its leaders who bow and kowtow to the god of woke nonentities.
Thanks Roy.
CATHEDRAL OF THE DEAD
By Roy E. Peterson (March 5, 2022)
In the cathedral of the dead
No satin pillows for the head.
Mangled bodies are strewn around.
Blood is seeping into the ground.
Corpses rigid were blown apart.
No one to bring the fun’ral cart.
Under blue apse sits the altar.
Anywhere the foes did falter.
Anguished voices remain unheard.
No one to say the final word.
The wind blown trees replacing priests
Waving branches o’er deceased.
While stars look down on friend or foe,
Their incense burns for those below.
Metal on Metal, rust on rust.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Prayers from everywhere resound
For those still lying on the ground.
And thus, the final rites are said
Over the sordid fields of dead.
Fields of fodder with slow decay
Will whisk the mortal stench away.
Heaven’s gates are swung open wide.
Inviting faithful, come inside.
A graphic description of this and any war.
Putin
What’s in the mirror that you see?
No bloody fangs, which would be fitting:
you feed on corpses of your victims.
You make them as you drink your tea.
You are no ghoul from fairy tales:
there’s been no one that’s been as horrid.
This is your time. But see, before it,
There were some others, and they failed.
One placed a bullet in his brain.
The other choked on his vomit.
The end is near. You postpone it:
you’ll murder more but that’s in vain.
You should have grown fangs, a horn,
a snout that you’ve almost grown,
while sitting on your trashy throne.
When you are dead, no one will mourn.
Befitting.
Thank you!
The Lion of Kiev
In Russia, there’s a madman, Vladimir Putin is his name.
He is ruthless and relentless and wants the country of Ukraine.
He rides horses all bare chested, a black belt in Judo too,
the KGB runs through his blood, he’s a commie through and through.
But you won’t see him on the front lines, he’s behind the Kremlin walls.
He’s watching every shell and bomb, waiting for Kiev to fall.
Without strength, there’s only weakness, now the Bear and Dragon rise,
the world is watching and they’re waiting with a set of global eyes.
In Kiev, there’s a leader and Zelensky is his name.
He is fearless and determined to save his country of Ukraine.
With a helmet and flak jacket, he went straight to the front lines
and called on all his countrymen with steel in every spine.
He is outgunned and outmanned but he won’t give any ground.
He is leading and imploring as the missiles fly around.
Reagan said “tear down this wall” and what did Patton say?
“Lead me or follow me or get the hell out of my way!”
What would you do, if you were called to stand and fight today?
Would you tuck your tail and run or grab your guns and stay?
Our prayers are with these people as they defend their home
and all the world wants them to know that they are not alone.
Do not be like some of those who crawl away and hide,
be like Volodymyr Zelensky and say “I need ammo, not a ride.”
© Jim Munroe http://www.Rhymes4Life.com All Rights Reserved 3-5-2022
A fine poem, Jim.
Fortunately when my test came, I stayed.
But then one has to be put in the position of being tested first.
Thanks for the stirring read.
Well thought out, Jim.
Zelensky learning valuable lessons from US military and the Commander-in-Chief:
https://rumble.com/vwjq7k-ukraine-president-zelensky-reveals-the-only-thing-that-can-save-his-country.html
Hysterically funny, Mike! But it’s so true that it’s sad. The proud American military is being reduced to a pack of LGBT-conscious “woke” snowflakes who know all about CRT but little about field-stripping a weapon, or calibrating a range-finder.
The enemy is going to walk all over us in the next war. And General Millay will say “I’m glad to have done my duty.”
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=1PC7DzTRS7A&feature=emb_logo
Worth watching.
Mike, this segment from Tucker Carlson is absolutely devastating about the cynical push towards war with Russia that is being orchestrated by the goddamned illegitimate administration of our Fake President, the demented jackass Biden. And not just Biden’s crew, but the entire echo-chamber apparatus of Neocon warmongers. Not to mention the stupid Republicans who are going along with it.
Maybe some of the people here posting endless, drippy, sentimental doggerel with sob-stories about the “poor Ukrainians” will wake up when the United States is stupid enough to give those fighter jets to the Poles, and igniting World War III at the same time. I wonder if that will make them happy.
Carlson is right — this war hysteria against Russia is one of the “moral panics” that have come to be standard in the West. Just scream your head off about “morality” and “virtue” and “what is right,” and people’s brains just seem to cease functioning. Russia was DELIBERATELY PROVOKED into this war by our insanity in stoking trouble in the Ukraine, and trying to get the Ukraine to join NATO.
That is the plain truth. If you want to write more saccharine and embarrassingly bad doggerel about “the poor Ukrainians,” go ahead. But it won’t change the simple truth that this unnecessary war was planned and instigated by us. And if you keep screaming for “military action” against Russia, you will generate a world-wide holocaust.
Joe, a perfect short explanation of the way we are being played… it took Tucker over 23 minutes to say the same thing. Do the warmongers really think we are that stupid?
Didn’t Tucker recant?
Tucker Carlson is a journalist. I wonder how many people can recall a time when journalists actually admitted that a portion of a story was wrong. The mockingbird media never has to take anything back, ever.
So that’s a yes, then.
No… nothing in the video above has been retracted.
About the word “recant”… how odd that the word “retract” has been replaced. “Recant” is so much more appropriate for a time period of repression.
Freeman uses the word “recant” because at base he’s a moralist and a preacher, who judges all speech and behavior in terms of how it fits in or doesn’t fit in with his paradigm of conventional Left-Liberal thought.
If you disagree with him you’re a “heretic” and you must “recant.”
The tag team knows me better than I know myself, apparently.
Biden’s War
The war is Biden’s war, it isn’t ours.
He and the Neocons have much to gain,
Along with bankers and assorted powers,
The socialists now cause the workers’ pain.
Their names and strategies are always changing,
So many ways to war, so few to peace.
They drive us mad and bad by rearranging
Our loyalties so strife may never cease.
It always has been thus, divide the masses.
Set each person at another’s throat.
When the culling’s done by all those asses
They split up all the spoil and slyly gloat.
You’ve got to ask, “Is there a way to beat them.”
You know those demons do not really care.
It seems, sometimes, that even God can’t cheat them.
Yet still it’s worth the wonder of a prayer.
This is all you really need to know about Putin’s integrity.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/aug/12/vladimir-putin-greek-urns-ridicule
Wow, Paul, thanks for the stunning news that Putin is a very, very bad man. I suppose that I was wrong and it only makes sense to back this guy into a corner. Thanks for the clarity.
Paul Freeman still thinks that a Left-Labourite rag like The Guardian is a trustworthy journalistic source? Talk about political innocence!
Putin’s Splendid Isolation
Some folk claim that Putin is stable,
but that’s just an old Russian fable.
For people he meets
at the Kremlin he seats
down the end of a forty foot table.
Of course, Paul, the fearless leader of the USA is an altar boy with a shining intellect… think Einstein. It seems that he can even change his own nappies now! (albeit with just a little help)
Onward and upward to victory!
And Zelensky? So talented he can play a piano with his… ahem. How funny that Reagan was ridiculed because he was an actor, while Zelensky, the comedian, gets a pass.
The pro-war propaganda is so thick, you’d think Russia was Red China… I mean, of course you wouldn’t because the murderers of the Uighur and the Falun Gong are the good guys, right?
If you are a Guardian reader, I don’t see how you can keep from suffering whiplash.
It’s clear enough that Zelensky is a two-bit comedian, but he’s also a menace. He’s deliberately stoking the flames of a new world war by pleading with NATO to intervene militarily to save his sorry ass.
For the record, I’m not a Guardian reader, I was voicing my support for the Uighurs long before it was fashionable and I don’t think Einstein was ever an altar boy. Why you suddenly start going on about these topics in reply to a satirical limerick about Putin’s bizarrely long table meetings, I don’t know.
Oh, and I’m in a bad mood because RT, one of my favourite news and documentary channels, has been taken off the air.
Though the Grauniad is stereotypically liberal, left-wing, and politically correct, it is one, among myriads of news sites I monitor, for several reasons, not least of which is, it’s not NYT or WaPo. I even used it in a recent tennos:
From FSZH
by Esca Webuilder
It was read from some online site, such as the Guardian,
that centre-left news source owned by the Scott Trust Limited,
that story on the Interpol, big data ark they’d stored,
unlawfully hacked from encrypted phones and crime reports—
at least four petabytes of mass surveillance, black-heart holes,
like that accumulated by dark MSS’s moles.
I do not cry aloud, or wring my hands in such a place;
I watch the station lights rush by with care upon my face.
What can one do, but leave a message somewhere in a po’m,
or text somebody one may know upon one’s traced, tracked phone?
Like Mr. Freeman, I also monitor RT; but here in the States, I am still able to read it.
Good to hear your look at different sources, BDW.
RT is back again, though mainly airing anti-American documentaries, and for your interest my limerick about Putin’s ‘Splendid Isolation’ has been published today in The Daily Mail.
I’m wondering if anyone here still knows that diversity of thought is our strength.
And you can’t see the irony of what you’ve just written!
Has anyone PREVENTED you from saying what you wish to say here? Has anyone CANCELLED you or kicked you off the air? You have received some harsh retorts, but are you not still part of the conversation here?
Answer honestly: is the same thing true of those left-liberal and “progressive” websites and chatrooms where the slightest hint of rightist or merely heterodox opinion will get you completely blackballed and silenced?
No one has prevented me posting two satirical limericks. The odd responses you’ve made though, i.e. latching onto a single innocuous word use to denounce me as …. whatever, or to jump on the first site that came up on a Google search I made as proof that I’m … whatever, just to deflect from and stifle any point I was alluding to is a bit disappointing.
A DARKNESS HAS DESCENDED
By Roy E. Peterson (March 7, 2022)
A darkness has descended
In the European heart.
Russia’s war machine is bombing
The Ukraine all apart.
I read the compendium
Of inchoate analysis
That was engendered by
Ideological hubris.
It matters not the causes,
Or what other leaders say.
What matters is the people
Who are getting blown away.
BIDEN IS TO BLAME
Military Sonnet #6
By Roy E. Peterson (March 7, 2022)
Some people may think Putin is insane.
Why did he go to war in the Ukraine?
Putin’s first answer, NATO they would join.
He thought it safer if he could purloin.
Next on his list, denazification.
Then he claimed it was not a real nation.
Fourth, Putin went back into history,
Claimed Ukraine was Russian territory.
Putin saw weakness in our president.
He decided that’s when troops could be sent.
Who should be surprised if we can look back?
Timing was propitious for this attack.
Who’ll stop the bleeding? Who will share the shame?
I have no doubt Joe Biden is to blame.
EVIL THAT LURKS IN HEARTS OF MEN
By Roy E. Peterson (March 7, 2022)
Noone knows the evil
That lurks in hearts of men.
Welcome to the future.
The world’s at war again.
If we disdain involvement,
If we sit on the sidelines,
We then become the victims
Of the devilish designs.
Strong force must meet with strong force,
Or there’s a power vacuum.
Never underestimate
The desire to consume.
Is it that the diplomats
Have stolen our heart and soul?
Or did the incompetents
Simply fail to control?
What aims the warfare givers?
While the world debates and dithers
With diplomatic shivers
Evil coils and slithers.
WHO WILL PAY THE COST OF THE UKRAINE WAR
Military Sonnet #7
By Roy E. Peterson (March 7, 2022)
Who will pay the cost of the Ukraine war?
Which ones suffer most? Which ones suffer more?
It begins with those who live in the Ukraine.
They are the most who suffer from the pain.
Then there is the European Union,
Felt safe when ended the Soviet confusion.
We don’t know if NATO will be attacked.
But they’ll pay the price for the oil they lacked.
The world will pay for the goods unproduced.
Ukrainian exports will be reduced.
Russians, too, will suffer from the actions
As they feel the pinch of Western sanctions.
America may pay in patriot blood
When we must stop the Russian army flood.
Poet Note: I purposely used the word “may” in the penultimate line.
PROPAGANDA AND FAKE NEWS
By Roy E. Peterson (March 9, 2022)
Propaganda is an exercise
All sides like to use.
Tricky lies and hatred
Are meant to confuse.
Some keep holding on,
As they become deranged
Even though the circumstances
Of the world have changed.
Fake news is an enemy,
Also meant to confuse.
It is designed to hide the truth
While affecting our views.
Purveyors are like wolves
Hiding among the sheep.
Their dulcet tones intended
To put us to sleep.
Ideology gets one in trouble
Every time.
Inconsistent thinking then
Becomes their own landmine.
We put labels on them,
The left or the right.
Neither one is accurate
When we get into a fight.
Oh, there are time-tested principles
Of humanity
Who yearn for peace and freedom,
Who will fight for liberty.
Religion is an answer
Demagogues will fear.
Peaceful people praying
Though death is coming near.
Clear thinking is the antidote,
Discernment is the need.
Logic is the safety valve
To analyze each deed.
Read the Bible scripture,
Decipher what’s concealed.
By prayer and supplication
The truth will be revealed.
NOTHING HAS GONE AS PUTIN HAD ASSUMED
Military Sonnet #8
By Roy E. Peterson (March 10, 2022)
Nothing has gone as Putin had assumed.
Just ten percent of Ukraine is consumed.
Two weeks of warfare have damaged a lot,
But Ukraine hasn’t fallen to Putin’s plot.
Columns have stalled on the road to Kyiv.
Ukraine resistance has refused to give.
Antitank weapons have killed quite a few
Hitting their targets while hidden from view.
Two million refugees trudged to the west.
I wonder what will become of the rest.
Sanctions have not stopped the massacre there.
The world twiddles thumbs and prays in despair.
How much is the damage, some will discuss.
Ukraine is fighting for them and us.
Perhaps Mr. Peterson is preparing a book on the War in Ukraine.
If so, let’s hope it shows better research into the facts than what is evidenced in his poems and commentary here.
Mr. Peterson, between February 26 and March 5 you posted seventeen poems about the Ukrainian war. Now you have just posted another six.
Don’t you think this is getting a little embarrassing?
Painful reading. Blimey! An endless stream of tabloid quality attempts at poetry in this thread, and more than can be found, I’d wager, in an annual Red-top poetry contest.
The venel hubristic vanity, the perfidiousness, the rank back-stabbing scum-baggery of the Western regimes the last several years, coupled with the overwhelming credulity, naivity, ignorance, gullibilty, and hysterical sentimentalism of the general population the last few weeks has furthered my misanthropy, I fear, to an irreversable degree.
Bloody Hell.
https://thewashingtonstandard.com/the-defense-departments-17-year-old-agreement-confirms-dangerous-pathogens-located-at-the-facilities-in-ukraine-funded-with-our-money/
Who started this damned war?
We did. We set up germ warfare research centers in the Ukraine, we encouraged the Ukrainians to join a military pact (NATO) that directly threatens Russia, we allowed George Soros to dominate the country, and now we are in a hysterical state of moral high dudgeon because the Russians have rightly taken all these things as acts of war.
Are Americans ?really that stupid? Yeah, I guess we are.
And to boot, the Anglo-American establishment, cos that’s what it is, has armed, trained, financed, whether it be directly or indirectly, the Right Sector paramilitary battalions that’ve been the vanguard in the Ukrainian regimes war agianst its own citizens in Donbass the last 8 years killing tens of thousands.
Yes, Mr Salemi, the population have been utterly stupified, it is no better here in Britain, and seem quite willing to allow it to continue.
I come to this party rather late, but what a feste it’s been! I am very impressed by Roy’s record and passion. Therefore, I hope my own little ditty – especially it’s rhyming – will be acceptable to most if not all of this illustrious group:
Disputin’ with Putin: A Poetic Ditty
There’s no disputin’
That Vladimir Putin
Is expert at lootin’.
But after the shootin’
Results might not suit him –
Who’ll then put the boot in?
Greetings to all from Sunny Jim in miserable, rain-sogged England!!!
I really appreciate the sentiments and perspective from “rain-sogged England.”