You have not fooled us, you hawks
sitting tall in our halls of proud Freedom
You have fouled Earth instead,
with waves of red blood on every far shore
We have seen how you plunder and
plump up your coffers
and how deeply they hate us
from without and within
We have seen our fair mothers with fragile
hearts broken, how every dead soldier
becomes a rifle with eyes
Watch how quickly for each of your crimes
a bullet is born that will one day
head straight for your hearts
We are long-burning wicks that have faith
in our dead who are not merely roots
neath your bloodstained stones
but shove fists through dirt and life rises!
Mothers shed mourning, forge tears
into metal for the long deserved strike
in the night
Broken eyes keep vigil, you
unfeeling vipers from the pit
of Hell
Our swords are at the ready, filled
with courage and fire
and our visions of dawn, you
quartered and hung
--Jo VonBargen 2011
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Photo of the WWII Memorial by Jo's son, Ken Phillips