Why Are We in Iraq?




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Welcome to "Why Are We in Iraq?"

This website is dedicated to giving the poets of the 21st century a place to speak out about a world consumed with war, peace, religious intolerance, military strategy, violence and hate. Here poets are free to voice how they feel, irrespective of their political allegiance.




New Poems Published the Week of June 25, 2009

"Grunts" by Nathaniel McCoy
I am not the same man I was
Before I came in
But I do not know
If it is for better or for worse

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Today's Featured Poem
Originally Published September 20, 2007


Ranger
by Ron Cervero


My friends blew up in front of me
I gave mouth to mouth to a soldier,
that didn't have a face


Just raw bloody meat
Eyes out of sockets,
and hanging off to the side

No one knows or cares
what I saw at the rim of hell


Not dismembered
It's my mind that haunts me --

Copyright ©2007-Ron Cervero