Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.
Ngoma Hill
57 years old
NY
Ngoma is a performance poet, multi-instrumentalist and Paradigm Shifter, who for over 30 years has used art as a tool to raise socio-political and spiritual consciousness. FYI check his website www.Ngomazworld.com
A Vet's Poem to His Children
They will tell you this is the last war the war to end all wars Don't believe them war only brings war they will tell you that it is your duty to protect democracy but democracy doesn't live here anymore she left with the buffalo afraid of being burned like witches at the stake chased away for prophecizing eternal life they will say they were ordained by god don't believe them they only think they're gods their sons have not seen war- nor the chicken hawks who vote to send my sons away to kill some one they never met that looks like you or me and was also sent to kill like chess pieces on a board they will bribe you w/ student loans on the GI Bill and Veterans mortgages but there is no bribe to pay for contamination from spent uranium or agent orange or yr missing leg they didn't tell you war is not a video game someone really has to die the next body bags could contain the remains of americans on this soil fragmentations of realities they didn't tell you that your life is expendable easily traded so the privileged can drive SUV's while half the planet has no shoes how many lives per gallon will it take to fill you up release the pump don't let the blood overflow!!!
