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Lonnie Hicks - A War Flower

2014-11-10 5 Dailymotion

They took all the flowers <br />and taught them how to shoot guns; <br /> <br />the tulips learned to emit poison gas <br />and the roses, my god the roses <br />were used to hide the blood stains <br />on the carpeting. <br /> <br />It was war; <br />all out war they said <br />and everything had to be used <br />because all was to be used <br />to ensure ultimate victory. <br /> <br />Dead trees were gnawed at the center <br />and taught to toppled themselves on unwary Geraniums marching. <br /> <br />The Lialics laid down hand grenades <br />in front and in the back of enemy Orchid buds. <br /> <br />The outcry against: 'flower power' was immense <br />'an atrocity' said many <br />but it did not stop. <br />Pigeons and dolphins learned to carry bombs; <br />dogs became spotters for sniper's guns; <br />elephants trampled the flower beds <br />and marched with; the infantry. <br /> <br />All of nature bent to war's intent <br />and paid the ultimate price on bloodied battlefields- <br />the flowers going straight to funerals- <br />no need to send remembrances <br />since <br />their fresh flower carcasses were already present <br />bullet ridden and bleeding. <br /> <br />So every tree, animal and plant <br />was used to disembowel the ecology- <br />misshapened and bent to Foul Intent <br />in the grey dawn <br />cracking- <br />artillery shells smoking and spent <br />bullet casings strewn about; <br />dead flora <br />dead fauna; <br />haphazardly arranged dying flowers <br />their petals weeping.<br /><br />Lonnie Hicks<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-war-flower/

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