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Onward Zionist Soldiers! (Part Two)

IV
Onward, Zionist soldiers,
marching as to war,
With the star of David
going on before!

See Netanyahu’s armies
paid for by yankee gold
Killing women and kiddies
doing as they’re told.

REFRAIN:
Onward Zionist soldiers
longing for a war
With the Star of David
drenched in Gazan gore!

V
Onward Zionist settlers
stealing Palestinian lands
With the deaths of thousands
on your greedy hands!

Building flats and houses
on the western banks
Protected by armed soldiers
and US-sponsored tanks.

REFRAIN:
Onward the thieves of Zion
who bomb and maim and kill!
O whence comes a saviour
to slaughter them at will?

VI
Palestinian children
throw a few small stones;
Brave Israeli weapons
crush their feeble bones.

Here comes Netanyahu
spouting a load of crap;
Where’s a Muslim hero
to wipe him off the map?

REFRAIN:
Onward Zionist soldiers
bringing death and doom;
One day someone, somehow,
Will send you to your tomb.

About This Poem

Last Few Words: After the enthusiastic reception which the first instalment received from people, I have been encouraged to pen another three verses and choruses. Remember to sing it to the tune of "Onward Christian Soldiers" (music: Sullivan of Gilbert & Sullivan). Here's a link to Part One in case you missed it: https://www.neopoet.com/workshop/poems/onward-zionist-soldiers-part-one (if the link won't work, just copy and paste it) - ES 5.1.2020

Style/Type: Structured: Western

Review Request Direction: How was my language use?
What did you think of the rhythm or pattern or pacing?
How does this theme appeal to you?
How was the beginning/ending of the poem?
Is the internal logic consistent?

Review Request Intensity: I appreciate moderate constructive criticism

Editing Stage: Editing - polished draft

About the Author

Region, Country: London, Culture Capital of the World

Favorite Poets: Siegfried Sassoon, Wilfred Owen, Rupert Brooke, Chaucer, Shakespeare to name but a few. And VERY IMPORTANTLY: Erich Fried, a leftwing Austrian of Jewish ancestry who fled the Nazis and became a British citizen in 1949., And, other writers (non-poets mainly): Raymond Chandler, Irvine Welsh, Anthony Burgess, Graham Greene, Charles Bukowski, John le Carré, Anthony Horowitz, Mick Herron, Margaret Attwood, Edna O'Brian, Maeve Binchy., Writers who I find vastly over-rated: TS Eliot, Virgina Woolf, Sylvia Plath, Phil Larkin, E.A. Poe, A. Ginsburg, Longfellow, Gerald Manley Hopkins (actually I LOATHE Hopkins more than damson-dappled words can say).

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Comments

Obadiah Grey

Obadiah Grey

5 years 9 months ago

Unfortunately, a little too

Unfortunately, a little too close to the truth for most folk.
A sickening state of affairs,
The tail that wags the dog!
Israel and the USA.

Obi.

Edna Sweetlove

Edna Sweetlove

5 years 9 months ago

Thank you...

...for your intelligent comment!

Maybe not "most" folk; just "some" folk.