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bout older posts no words posted on december 9 2025 by soitgoes1984 the windsock bahar s mom sent with us from molokai s kite factory is slow dancing in the morning breeze red orange yellow blue violet indigo and green as azad and omid play beneath the vibrant late spring jacaranda tree and the bees busy themselves in the beauty of these hydrangea and there are simply no words for song of these birds right now in chorus as i watch the clouds drifting over the sea drifting like my mind after a dog barks me out of this moment and back to reality back to a land by another sea a land where no one s free a land where birdsong has long been silenced beneath rubble alongside children no less precious than azad and omid posted in anthony bourdain uncategorized tagged america children death flowers gaza hawaii humanity immigration life palestine poem poetry punta del este south america uruguay writing comments off on no words may 29th 2025 6 13 pm posted on may 29 2025 by soitgoes1984 10 reasons 1 i want to walk with azad omid and bahar and ketty and jafar through the streets of tehran to the grand bazaar and past the mountains of saffron and turmeric to the cafes where the women sit with their hair resting freely on their shoulders and neck 2 i want to eat falafel in east jerusalem again and drink mint lemonade in bethlehem when the summer sun is unforgiving i want to hear the children as they laugh and sing running amongst the olive trees in bil in with no fences or walls to hinder their play free as the breeze and skin still salty from yesterday swimming with cousins in gaza 3 i want to sit beneath date palms and drink tea as sweet as candy by the rivers of babylon weeping twenty years of tears as i hear birds rather than bombs i want to travel like bourdain this time leaving love in my wake rather than pain 4 i want to keep helping feed those who are hungry and more importantly i want to help the masses see their humanity so one day there won t be any more need 5 i want to plant olive trees rows and rows and keep bees and grow flowers as far as the eye can see and relax in the olive tree shade sipping tea 6 i want to keep teaching omid and azad to be kind and i want to be around still when they are all grown up and when they find something to fill the hours of their day that makes them happy 7 i want to explore more of the world with bahar and bring our boys along and soak up song after song sung by buskers from beirut to bejing and on sidewalks the world over everywhere that people sing 8 i want to rescue more dogs and more cats and other animals too and help connect them with people who could use an unconditionally loving four legged friend i want to keep paying it forward for all the years that i ve gotten to spend surrounded by dogs and cats and goats and sheep and chickens and ducks and donkeys and rabbits and tortoises and for a little while a horse named daisy 9 one day i want to write poetry in spanish and at least a haiku or two in farsi 10 i want to spend the rest of my days helping my community humanity no matter which seashore is closest to my front door i want to keep fighting for freedom and justice for everyone and end to ignorance hatred greed and war i want to make the most of this opportunity to emigrate i want to help create a refuge for anyone fleeing any form of hate i want to raise my hand and swear a secular oath to a land called uruguay these are just some of the reasons i m choosing to stay posted in addiction alcohol america american dream animals anthony bourdain anxiety baghdad bethlehem broken heart cafe capitalism civil disobedience civil rights coffee collateral damage democracy depression dreams drugs earth education empathy empire environment ethnic cleansing family farm farmers farming farms flowers food freedom gaza george bush government greed guilt haiku happiness hate hatred healing history hope howard zinn human rights humanity hunger ignorance imagine iran iraq jerusalem justice kittens lgbtq liberty life love mass shootings memorial day memories nonviolent resistance occupy wall street oceans olive trees palestine palestinians peace persian food poem poetry poetry for peace police state poverty ptsd refugees refugees welcome solidarity songbirds suicide summer taxes tea trauma travel veterans veterans for peace war war tax resistance world writing tagged addiction america american dream animal rescue anthony bourdain capitalism cats chickens children china coffee community depression dogs donkeys ducks emigrating empathy europe farming farsi freedom goats happiness hope humanity immigrant iran iraq justice kindness lebanon life love mental health music ocean olive trees palestine parenting poem poetry poetry ptsd sea sheep south america spanish suicide sun tea travel uruguay writing comments off on may 29th 2025 6 13 pm smoke mirrors posted on august 29 2021 by soitgoes1984 smoke mirrors smoke like wild fires burning from a lightning strike moving too fast like a motor bike on an open road smoke like mushroom clouds after the heavens explode and become death smoke like taking away your breath as you stare up at the toxic sky smoke like people asking why smoke like too much apple pie smoke like we make others die smoke like cancer long after the fire fades smoke like two cigarettes burning for two decades smoke like choices we ve made and bills we ve paid and wreathes we ve laid again and again and again smoke like the sword but still not the pen smoke like heads bowed and incense and amen smoke like today still mirrors back then posted in uncategorized comments off on smoke mirrors we can t forget posted on august 23 2021 by soitgoes1984 we are believers we ve placed full faith in a magic that uses words to transform chaos into the norm human beings into disposable things buildings into rubble life into death by drone bodies into ash and bone cultures into terror ized threats one religion into worse than the next and in the center of the world we keep making bets and holding our breath waiting for more stolen treasure spoils of war has it been a pleasure weaving hatred and fear lasting a day lasting a year lasting a decade lasting a score our memories fade as we sneak out the door but we can t forget war s that have long been forgotten and we curse now the fruit all our labors begotten as bey sings to barry ellen giggles with bush they can t cleanse their guilt from the hindu kush where we pushed and we pushed sisyphean we pushed and we pushed led by blind kings you see being all we could be we pushed and pushed more pushing three cups of tea and two decades of war taking kids tired and poor hungry red white and blue saying this is exactly what jesus would do placing boys running kites in the sights of a drone but these are not sins for which we must atone as we get a va loan and ignore the fall leave bygones like saigon and ignore the call as curtains are closing and darkness sets in it s frankenstein s monster and our cheshire grin did we try to win or was it all a ruse dreamt by men of tin who get paid win or lose and although you might choose to forget the past it s there like old land mines just waiting to blast it s the power amassed many fold all these years by bush and by cheney s ethical peers and where have the tears that we cry now long been for afghanistan s women and children and men and for all the war dead and the bread that s gone stale and the red blood that underlies our fairytale it s a check in the mail it s pill bottles piled high it s the newsmen who still ask they hate us buy why it s hey hey my my it s mcdonalds apple pie and it s hamid karzai an old unocal guy are the taliban worse than the warlords they fight and who are we to judge when we teach might makes right my heart breaks for women from kandahar to kabul but would they fair better beneath saudi rule in the kingdom that bombed us twenty years ago and kills folks like khashoggi for sport and for show it s where our dollars go when we fill up our tank when we bow and kiss rings helping fill up their bank helping them to spread hatred from west to the east wahhabist jihad an oil fueled beast we tell victims families to go and pound salt if we knew it would happen how s it not our fault if the fbi vault is cracked open one day just what will all of the patriots say flags still on display hate still in their heart they ve killed all the horses they ve burned down the cart we think that we re smart but we re stuck on repeat we re stuck on repeat we re stuck on repeat perhaps it s high time we control alt delete we hit the reset so there s no more saigon s but i hear the drums pounding with sights on iran as hawks eye eurasia and eastasia too the colors have always been red white and blue here in oceania the land of the fee of a bombs and statues of robert e lee where we sip twisted tea and we pay our war tax and keep wondering why there were terror attacks your alternative facts never get to the root but reality s out there just take it off mute then turn up the volume and open your mind and don t be surprised at the things that you find like the kingsmen behind lying us into war after blow back that ricocheted right through our door when this empire s color s sped from walk to run on a september tuesday two thousand and one as we all ignored every last smoking gun but we ve made ourselves dizzy now rounding the sun 2002 and 2003 enduring enduring but hardly free 2004 and 2005 jingoism on overdrive 2006 and 2007 blood lust still from nine eleven 2008 2009 2010 2011 we created hell when we promised heaven 2012 2013 2014 2015 the war has long remained unseen 2016 2017 2018 2019 nine eleven babies now wear army green 2020 2021 we wash our hands we cut and run we think not of the damage done as we went round and round the sun and round and round and round some more twenty long years of endless war but forty since the cia thought up a new game to play in this graveyard where empires die where there s far more than meets the eye hey hey my my the wind chimes ring war crimes not freedom we did bring and we ll bring still with drones in sky forever we will terrorize posted in 9 11 afghanistan barack obama collateral damage democracy human rights khashoggi nyc peace poem poetry poetry for peace refugees refugees welcome saudi arabia taxes trauma uncategorized veterans veterans for peace vietnam war war tax resistance womens rights yemen tagged 1984 2001 afghanistan america biden george orwell george w bush obama poem poetry saudi arabia taliban war comments off on we can t forget all humanity posted on march 26 2020 by soitgoes1984 aren t you glad how though just a tad we ve started to see all humanity but isn t it sad that it s just a fad though it doesn t have to be because all of us hold the key let s grab tea sit down and talk of a fate not scripted in chalk let s wipe the board clean unplug the machine and hand in hand from our cages we ll walk at a safe social distance posted in uncategorized comments off on all humanity medicine not bombs posted on march 25 2020 by soitgoes1984 they say we are at war but if this were a war we have left our soldiers without bullets and combat boots if this were a war we have left our airmen without bombs and jet fuel if this were a war we have left our sailors adrift without so much as a compass that say we are at war but if this were a war and those fighting it were this ill equipped there wouldn t be so many innocent people dying they say we are at war against an invisible enemy but scientists can see it and doctors can see it and what they see is a virus not an enemy they say we are at war but war is a terrible analogy though if you look you can clearly see a direct correlation between the mountains money we spend killing people and the bread crumbs left over to heal them posted in afghanistan america american dream covid19 human rights humanity iraq life mlk poem poetry poetry for peace taxes trump uncategorized veterans for peace war war tax resistance writing tagged america bush capitalism covid19 death disaster capitalism farmers for peace greed health care life medicine medicine not bombs obama peace poem poetry poverty science trump veterans for peace wall street war war is a racket war tax resistance writing comments off on medicine not bombs at the end of the day posted on march 23 2020 by soitgoes1984 you may think everything is slipping away but we ll be alright at the end of the day the stocks that collapse are just games that men play so we ll be alright at the end of the day we still have the moon and the stars and sun s rays yes we ll be alright at the end of the day oh say can t you see that community pays with compassion and love my friends we ll be okay posted in uncategorized comments off on at the end of the day spring posted on march 21 2020 by soitgoes1984 first day of spring uncertain times songbirds still sing the wind still chimes the rains still falling down the gardens grow humanity has many springs to go posted in uncategorized comments off on spring the quiet of these hours posted on march 21 2020 by soitgoes1984 it s not too late to start a garden it s not too late to plant some trees it s not too late for solar power or water catchment or keeping bees it s not too late to think of others it s not too late to learn to cook it s not too late to learn a language or read or even write a book it s not too late unless we give up it s not too late to turn around in the quiet of these hours can be where tomorrow s found are you happy and contented with this world that you can see if you re not then switch the power walk outside and plant a tree it s exactly what we re missing a real connection with the earth let the quiet of these hours be humanity s rebirth posted in uncategorized comments off on the quiet of these hours this humanity posted on march 20 2020 by soitgoes1984 if the barge stops coming and you have more than you need will you share with your neighbors or will you give in to greed if the barge stops coming and the shelves are stripped bare will you hoard a year s surplus or will you be kind and share if the barge stops coming and the markets all close will you let people starve or will you help ease their woes if the barge stops coming will you wake up and see that we are all part of this humanity posted in uncategorized comments off on this humanity older posts search for archives december 2025 may 2025 august 2021 march 2020 january 2020 december 2019 november 2019 october 2019 september 2019 august 2019 july 2019 june 2019 may 2019 april 2019 march 2019 february 2019 january 2019 december 2018 november 2018 october 2018 september 2018 august 2018 july 2018 june 2018 may 2018 april 2018 march 2018 february 2018 january 2018 december 2017 november 2017 october 2017 september 2017 august 2017 july 2017 june 2017 may 2017 april 2017 march 2017 february 2017 january 2017 december 2016 november 2016 october 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