Three Poems by G Emil Reutter

 

Bang

 

Israel

    Palestine

       Iran

         Russia-Ukraine

                 Russia-Georgia

                                       North Korea – Ukraine.

India- China

    North Korea – South Korea

                  China- Philippines.

Myanmar Civil War

 

 

                            Congo Civil war – Sudan Civil War

                                   Ethiopia erupting

                                        Thousands of dead in West Congo

 

 

Maghreb, Sahel, Mali War, Azawad Conflict, Niger, Burkina Faso… and on and on

      hundreds of thousands dead and dying

 

Columbia, Venezuela, Haiti, Northern Triangle……

 

Guns…Bombs…Missiles… Ships… Planes… Bullets…Rockets… Rifles… Tanks…

 

Drugs.

 

Somebody is making money… making money…. Somebody is making money….

 

Gold and silver are tainted red…. Somebody is making money….

 

Mass shootings in the United States… random homicides…targeted homicides…. death

 

death… somebody is making money… somebody is making money… bang! 

 

 

Reflection

 

Imagine… not going to happen… human need to believe in something… anything

      more than themselves… to group… guttural needs to battle, to blunder, to have

a right to fight for anything someone else disagrees with.

 

       Religion always, often the same yet different sects, who is more correct who has

correct doctrine and if not… politics…if not…sports… if not… race… if not accents

…if not… back to religion… who is the correct descendant of Abraham… of Jesus…of

the gods of Hindi… who was under that tree with Buddha? And if not that… philosophy

     oh, how the opinionated philosophers know all or nothing have caused the death and

abuse of millions… just to be correct yet upon reflection not so? 

 

 

No Curtain

 

Dystopia…. utopia… autocratic… capitalist…communist… socialist…

       dictator… figure head… people’s party… conservative… progressive…     

right… left… center… dissimulated… republican…democrat… green…

war… peace… peace…peace…

 

What the people say… until they don’t, bend at the knee, kiss the ring, worship

        mendacious tales of greatness disguised better than the great and powerful

Oz… death… imprisonment…torture…slaughter… and tug as one may the

        curtain does not pull back, there is no balloon to Kansas… it does not end

well… until it ends.

 

  

 

G Emil Reutter - A writer of poems and stories and on occasion literary criticism, g emil reutter was born in Bristol, Pa., raised in Levittown, Pa. and has lived most of his life in of Philadelphia, Pa. A highly decorated member of the Railroad Police, he retired from a 26 year career in the patrol, anti-crime and criminal investigation division. Prior he worked as a steelworker, tea blender and a number of other jobs. A graduate of Neshaminy High School, he graduated from the New England Institute of Law Enforcement Management, Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. He attended Temple University and Penn State University among others. His poetry and fiction have been widely published in the small and electronic press as well as numerous newspapers and magazines. Twenty of his collections have been published. He published The Fox Chase Review (2008 – 2015). He is currently a contributing editor at North of Oxford