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Two short poems about the ugliness of war

on outstretched wings,
the dove flies free
the strife down below is an illusion
         Look in your heart.
         Peace is love; love is peace.

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Helpless,
         the mother wails in misery,
her broken daughter, dead in the muddy ditch.
The young GI, shaking,
         resumes his post.
The desert obliterates the memory



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