Poetry: Experiencing terrorism - by Beat Spiccoli

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by Beat Spiccoli

Created on: June 16, 2010

Stuck in tranquilized loops
Lily-white lips whisper hope
Mantras pulse in eternal hoops

Thoughts spinning in my head
Remove this stone from Bilal
Burning sand the martyr's bed

A fungus on fresh bread begun
Traitorous westernized Beoduin
Merchants for the Foreign Legion

Surging shamaal of angels bold
Revealed to us the fresh blood
of innocents bought and sold

Draw your swords! God is great!
Oh you, peasants, pure of heart!
Hurry to salvation, free of hate!

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Our Tower

Once I stood upon your lofty perch,
the view below caused me to search,
the city spread long and wide,
I gave no thought
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Remember
What do you call a time that no one has?
What do you call a place that no one sees?
How do you describe the emotions
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by Fran Mascioli

Those beautiful twin towers fell

while a shocked world watched in tears.

The act so senseless and unprovoked, we were
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Awake O' sleeping giant,
Your adversary has become defiant,
Snuffing out lives without batting an eye,
Ignoring the country's
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The Accident
He sang at sunset a song of blood
above the wreckage of his wasted childhood,
the samaritan son stripped of love.
"Father,

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