End war, don’t built empire!



He had the phiz build in stone
There were no walls in that stove
One, two, three, all blue and free
Three, four, five, all set fire in a knee

He had the body full of hay
There were no guts filled with clay
Five, six, seven, all legs in wood
Eight, nine, ten, in the air, stood.

The war has brought it, misery, the faulty
There were only ashes beyond the cruelty
Eleven, twelve, thirteen, or 1914, its start
Fifteen, sixteen, 1917, July, is his depart.

The red phiz brought obedience and cold
There were the walls covered in mould.
Eighteen, nineteen, twenty century, propagandised
Twenty-one, twenty-two, 2022, now democratised.

Most of it, ‘for war and terror.
it’s consent and double error.
It’s their children, cannon fodder
They kill brother, not to solder.

You, moonless war, criminal chief
Don’t wipe pride in a handkerchief
Hoist the flags and make it white
Choose the best, ending it. Right?

About this poem

The poem is about the atrocity of the war, sliding into the subject of the Russian invasion in Ukraine, where I wanted to build a manifesto against it and ask Putin to end the war. I've chosen to write the title at the end of the poem to send a message to Russia.

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Submitted by madalinamanda on March 19, 2022

Modified on March 05, 2023

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Quick analysis:

Scheme XXAA BBCC AADD EECC FFFF XXGG
Closest metre Iambic tetrameter
Characters 916
Words 170
Stanzas 6
Stanza Lengths 4, 4, 4, 4, 4, 4

Mihaela Madalina Horjan

My full name is Mihaela Madalina Horjan but I desire to sign my poetry with Madalina Manda, my maiden name as a tribute to my parents. I'm 36 years old and I started writing poetry in my mother tongue, Romanian. when I was 7. Now I'm experimenting with English writing. I am also a student at Sheffield Hallam University doing Creative Writing. more…

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