A War of Words

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    A War of Words



    Just in case you haven’t heard
    Life is a war of words
    Verbs, adverbs, adjectives, and nouns
    That can lift you up or bring you down

    And it seems the best defense
    Is prayer and common sense
    A sound bite at just the right
    Times can make a day seem dark as night

    Barbs and blurbs like missiles can come
    From poisonous lips leaving lives undone
    Rabble rousing, stirring the pot
    Making routine situations hot

    Missiles from minds with strong opinion
    Can destroy lives as they seek dominion
    With racial sorties bombarding the brain
    With opinions that may drive insane

    And what some fail to see
    Are words of foreign policy
    Can be anything to keep the poor
    In a third world condition
    Always needing more

    While they raid the coffers of mind and emotion
    Demanding that we defend the notion
    That patriotism be reduced to such a broad theme
    As buying into a fear that erodes the American Dream

    Shock and Awe from the bully pulpit
    Has a nation divided because of it
    And just in case you haven’t heard
    Life is truly a War of Words

    H. Wilson



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    SimplyDeep21 commented on A War of Words

    03-09-2009

    Thats so true!I thought that This poem was great...

    If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

    Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) American poet.

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