Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.
Jeffrey Spahr-Summers
47 years old
Jeff is a poet and photographer living in Colorado. He is the Editor and Publisher of The Poetry Victims.
The Machine
They built a machine. Polished it with loving care As if it were silver or gold To reflect their old worldly ideals. They wheeled it outside, And paraded it around the world Hoping to impress their friends. But it was a stupid machine. It killed indiscriminately And wouldn’t stop. And It kept getting lost in Cambodia.
The people were embarrassed... “Stop it. Bring it home.” And they tried to, but the machine Didn’t understand. It ignored them. They had to hunt it down, And spend many years and dollars To make it a smart machine.
Finally, they sent it to Babylon And all their friends were impressed. “What a great machine, So smart. The best machine yet.” The people were proud... They kissed the machine, they Hugged it, petted it and were happy.
And the machine smiled back, Flexed it’s muscles... “Where to now?” it whispered.
Ignoring History
We choose to do this as a society as a race we clamber for bread and circuses like Romans already corrupted lounging in our spas barking orders throwing undesirables to the lions because we don’t really know why but we do it anyway we live for it somehow it comforts us to wield this power like crafty would be gods creating chance and circumstances handing out candy lording over life and death
