City Of Brotherly Hate


Intolerance, U.S.A.
Where bigots live in disarray
Variance not abided
Thoughts and reason all one-sided

Similitude's revered
Difference considered weird
Diversity acrimonious
Adverse and felonious

Let's hope in time it'll be decreed
To allow Intolerance to secede
This hypothetical city aberration
Has no place in our great nation



by Stan Cooper...3/17/08 graphic by Don Hunt









Poetry by Stan Cooper The PoetBay support member heart!
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Written on 2008-04-27 at 17:41

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John Lambremont, Sr.
Great poem and a good idea, but where would we put them?
And who would take them in?
2008-04-27


ken d williams The PoetBay support member heart!
Yes , Stan , you and Don , write and draw on the specter that like a black cloud hoers above us all. Those of us who are of the baby boomer's. As we wrote ,sean , marched and campaigned fore a more tolerant way of the world. Took up the banner , that Stans grate genarastion handed to them by our grandfathers & grandmothers in my case my great grandmother. Now I fear that all that was gainde , all the progres made . Is being taken away. I am so pesed I decided on becoming a humanist ( agnostic! )
At our age we met anf kno those who had livdethro much of the 20th centry , wars , big and smal. A lad I kno grew up never knowing his father as his dad , as he now lays somewear in Korear. Kno a man who wasa sviver of a bombeing of his house when he were a kid. His mum were killed. Knowe a man who's brouther wasa kild in ww1, the war offive sent his mum the bill fore blanket , the remaines of hewr son was buried in. My great auntey cared the sharapnal from a Zepling raide on our home town during ww1. Thes memarys we all have of say 55 in age and above in experance of the20th centry , now we are liveing in the 21st, nowt has change as it?

Ken ( D Williams)
2008-04-27


Elle The PoetBay support member heart!
Intolerance thrives. Faith, it seems does not unite but divides - love for ones fellow man, is put down to what religion, class or creed they be - Your poem made me feel sad - because to me it shows the futility of mankind to accept each other and their differences

Elle x
2008-04-27