Truce - Children of War by Sharee Anne Gorman (annienomad-cyberpoet)

 

Truce

(for all Children of War) 

today,

I did not waken to

the sounds of war

morning tea

was not seasoned

by the mist of

crumbling mortar

 my gun,

left on a makeshift

and empty table

 …I go in search of food…

 the theater is gone,

broken rows of empty seats

no longer watch the stage

 where am I? 

signs are missing

familiar landmarks lie lost

among the scattered rubble

 …I hear the crying man before I see him…
 

 how long has he been crying?
 

by the looks of his dead family

must be about a week 

he’ll be gone soon too,

you can tell

 shit! 

there’s the pharmacy

blown to hell 

…“little bit” needs medicine… 

but I don’ know what kind

and I don’t know how much 

God! 

where’s the relief truck?

are they sending supplies?

 what day is it?

what year? 

the streets are so quiet 

silent, almost 

as if, grief

naturally muffles 

…I want to cry…but nothing comes… 

no tears

no prayers

no help 

I have to go back
 

 back and tell “little bit”,

still no food 

“little bit”,

who’s growing weaker

“little bit”,

who likes to bug me at school

“little bit”,

who will die

during my afternoon nap 

…today, I woke to find… 

I had slept through my sister’s

final farewell

 

(excerpt from my book "Legends, Myths & Journeys)

 

©2000shareeannegorman
(annienomad-cyberpoet)
http://annienomad.com

Conscience (I Apply Scar Gel) A Poem by annienomad-cyberpoet

When the world does not reflect the tenets of its own rhetoric and life is lost in resisting the internalization of the disconnect...the mind will start to eat itself.

You start to feel that in seeing beyond the mind-control, in collapsing beneath the weight of what lies behind the curtain, in not embracing the automatic life...that you have done something wrong.



Conscience

(Apply Scar Gel)

Morning comes

feed the cat

wash the dishes

make the bed

apply scar gel

to pulse points,

like an exotic

oil of essence.

Sugar wants a nap

Evening comes

feed the cat

wash the dishes

unmake the bed

apply dreams

like scar gel

to the pulse points
of conscience.

3/26/13

by
Sharee Anne Gorman
(annienomad-cyberpoet)

©2013shareeannegorman

 



The Crafting - A Poem by annienomad-cyberpoet

 

The Crafting

 

 

My chalice for filling,

with wine for the wedding.

Heat searing the course

in the craft of our melding.

 

Aged-leather for binding,

the creature still raging.

Horns worn from uncoupling

the craft of forgiving.

 

Soft pillows for muffling

the screams of unlocking

potential from chaos.
 

The craft of life's longing.

 

Love waits for the day

when illusion gives way.

And hearts are thrown wide

to the child lost inside...

 

Who remembers the dreams

and keeps them alive,

for the ones who survive...
 

The long night of

the crafting.
 

 

3/12/2013
 

 

©2013shareeannegorman
http://annienomad.com

 

 

 



Open Letter to Occupy Wall Street/ Labor/ Pam Martens/Noam Chomsky/Michael Hudson/Ralph Nader/Amy Goodman

Thank you for your tireless efforts to end corruption on Wall Street and to bring about a more just financial market...and by extension a more just society. 

I noticed how much energy and vitality the Occupy Movement gained when the labor movement threw their hat in the ring to join the protesters in Zuccotti Park on May Day 2012 and I was thinking maybe we should keep that relationship connected in a continuing effort. 

I have proposed a Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages in a petition to President Obama, which also serves as  a basis for a global social justice movement.  And I thought you might want to be made aware of this growing movement, that perhaps you might want to share this idea among the influencers within your circle of friends and colleagues. 

It is my belief that a Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages will spark a global conversation and a subsequent shift in the trajectory of our social thinking. 

Labor is the largest demographic on the planet transcending the social and ideological differences such as race, gender, religious and political party affiliations that usually keep us divided. 

Since imposed poverty is at the core of virtually every social injustice, forwarding a plan for economic equality will address a myriad of inherent injustices. Thus, giving citizens the strength and political will to stand against their oppressors. 

The extractors at the top of the pyramid (the .01%) can only oppress as long as no one addresses the source of their power...Profit Comes From Somewhere: the Under-Paid worker, the Over-Charged consumer, the Occupied Lands of of an occupied people.  

If we start at the root of injustice, then every other ill will be addressed. I believe Occupy, Labor and simple common sense can together make that happen. 

The Global Labor Treaty for Living Wages:  https://www.facebook.com/GlobalLaborTreatyforLivingWages

Thank you for your continued efforts. 

I would also like to thank Professor Noam Chomsky for taking the time to comment on my poem "Vigil" when I shared it with him. "Vigil" A Poem of American Crisis

And I would like to thank my friend Steve...for always believing in me.

Sharee Anne Gorman

annienomad-cyberpoet

http://annienomad.com

Open Letter: Keystone XL ("Failure" a poem by annienomad-cyberpoet)

Open Letter to President Obama, Secretary of State Kerry, Canadian Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird and Congress…

...especially...

Max Baucus (D-Mont.)

John Hoeven (R-N.D.)

Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.)

Sen. Mark Begich (D-Alaska)

John Barrasso (R-Wyo.)

Joe Donnelly (D-Ind.)

John Boozman (R-Ark.)

Kay Hagan (D- N.C.)

John Cornyn (R-Texas)

Heidi Heitkamp (D-N.D.)

Orrin Hatch (R-Utah)

Mary Landrieu (D-La.)

Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska)

Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.)

Rob Portman (R-Ohio)

Mark Pryor (D-Ark.)

Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)

Jon Tester (D-Mont.)

David Vitter (R-La.)

Mark Warner (D-Va.)

"Failure"

by Sharee Anne Gorman
(annienomad-cyberpoet)

To defy authority

and the measure of its success. 

To embrace uniqueness

in a moment of clarity. 

To inhabit a land

without depleting its resources. 

To love a mate

and not take your fill on the side. 

To run for office

only to choose the People over Power. 

To understand,

that the only way to “win”

is to simply not play the game. 

2/26/2013 

©2013shareeannegorman

annienomad-cyberpoet

It appears more and more that in the halls of Congress, "success" is measured by what those in positions of power seek to exploit...but I reject that measure of success.

Tar Sands oil, and the mechanisms of its extraction, are toxic. Period. 

Whatever your rationales are: whether it is commerce and profit, energy supremacy and/or some death chess game with China…you have lost your way. Your strategies are NOT worth poisoning your people and the land that you and I are charged with protecting. 

EVOLUTION means MOVING FORWARD when we have DEVELOPED THE TECHNOLOGY to do so...for the BENEFIT of (and to PROTECT the FATE of) mankind.  

Fossil fuels are dead. And so too are our children if we do not acknowledge that wind, sun and steam are alive, renewable, easily harnessed and non-toxic. 

Stop digging in the ground and embrace the sky. Elevate us out of the hole you have dug us into. 

If this deal goes through I’m afraid we, the people, must insist that you change your job description from Civil Servants to Civil Sell-Outs. 

But don’t listen to me. 

I’m just...a failure.

At least, that's the way it seems to me...

annienomad-cyberpoet