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Poems, poems, everywhere, but never enough to go around.

Welcome to the Coffee House. Take a seat, put your feet on the table, and listen to some poetry.

Contribute if you feel like it, but my poems go here first.

-------Raise thy Hands-------

Raise thy Hands boy
Look up to the sky
See how the planes come boy
See the Women cry

Watch the soldier run boy
soon you'll run too
Grab your gun boy
Give the devil his due

Watch your friend die boy
What the fall to the ground
Why do you cry boy?
Don't you hear that sound?

It's the sound of bullets boy
the enemies upon us now
Pray to your god boy
and wipe the sweat from your brow

Where did you go sir?
Why do you cry sir?

Because I'm dying boy
Gone to the grave

What do I do now sir?
Where will I go?
I have no family sir.
No place to call a home

Go to the land boy
Or go and seek
what you want boy
but wipe that tear from your cheek.

Raise thy hands boy
the time is nigh
Hold your rifle high
If you hesitate at all boy
Tonight is the night you die

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-------My Little Rose Petal-------

How delicate a rose is
The petals themselves like a silk dress
and crushed just as easy

My delicate rose
As I keep you held gently in my hand
The slightest breath of wind moves you
and carries with it your fragrence
like the softest kiss in the breeze

My precious rose
One of your thorns has grabbed my skin
But I am unwilling to let go
I cannot let you drop to the ground
To be trampled by feet
And to have your petals crushed

My little rose.....
It is for you that I run home
To see your bright crimson flower
Greeting me with open arms
You bring sunshine to my day
And color to the otherwise gray world

My fragile, fragile rose
I am so sorry
I carried you out to the streets
When I should have kept you at home
The bird swooped down, and tried to take you away
My sweet rose
But I grabbed you tight, despite the thorns
And with bleeding hands sent the bird away

Alas! Rose!
In my rush to protect you
I have commited the ultimate crime

I have crushed my Rose
My precious, precious Rose

Now we both bow our heads and weep.

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