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A Socio-Political Poem called: "Land Mines">>Silver Medal at the International Society of Poets, Washington, D.C. 2000

(Abridged Version, a requirement at the Competition...The Unabridged Version has twenty two stanzas...)

They crawl, they beg, they lie about in cases,
The peace and quiet and ugly open spaces,
Giving up that hope, giving up a dream,
Their knowledge of life is limited to a scream;

So near, yet far, estranged and no help,
They try to reach out, they can only yelp,
The barking, the mooing, as if there's no more hell,
A donation, a clasp, and nothing more to quell;

That tunnel of hope reminds you and me,
It brings forth truth but nowhere to see,
It brushes the tone of moderation and diplomacy,
While the real victims of land mines recognise no supremacy;

"Spell it out why we need those mines,"
Suppliers survive, factories an endless spine,
The real angst of victims is their own uselessness,
Dutiful Red Cross always ending up to assess;

One, two, three, four, make a million more,
Five, six, seven, eight, add up to the fore,
Nine, ten, eleven, twelve, forget unlucky thirteen,
The nth victim of that mine, lay unconscious, unforeseen.

"Published in the anthology, "The Woodland Echoes", The International Library of Poetry, 1999. Also integrated in a cassette tape along with other nine other best poems, 1999. Voted Editor's Choice Award, 1999. The unabridged version of "Land Mines" has 48 lines.

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