I think you are telling me that this is old coke in a new can. However, if only that idea could be bottled and distributed till the last drop, it would literally be the new real thing.

You need to review George Carlin on Youtube for his insightful take on what is wrong with the status quo.

Many petty political persons and the gullible among the electorate around the world try to attribute all the problems affecting their states either to one seminal event or due to one particular race or group. This insults the intelligence of the thinking public since History did not start from a particular seminal event or due to one race or group.  The root causes of conflict need to be fairly and freely examined for a true solution.

Lincoln’s Lesson:

Can Fool Some All Time

Can Fool All Some of the Time

Not Fool All All Time

Gemma, as Neopoet is a forum for learning, I would like to add some details regarding an idiom referenced in your review: Margaret Wolfe Hungerford, née Hamilton, (27 April 1855 – 24 January 1897), was an Irish novelist whose most well-known novel written in 1878 entitled Molly Bawn contains the famous idiom "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder". Spike Milligan the British comedian was born in 1918 and died in 2002.

Human nature: we are the only species most aware of the difference between right and wrong and have the ability to dream, to think, to transcend our physical limitations with our mental prowess.  We are the only species that can ensure that we ascend to a higher intellectual plane by not repeating the mistakes of history.  

What is currently happening in Iraq, Syria, LIbya, Somalia, Yemen, Palestine, Congo, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and many other conflicts around the world is that the persons with the least morality, most brutality, least compassion, most aggression from both sides of the conflicts are engaged in a mortal battle to win at any cost and by any means.  

There is the need for the budding superpower to use its leadership role to stop the madness at the point of origin itself and this will also ensure another wave of refugees does not wash ashore in Europe and other nations of the Western hemisphere.   The budding superpower will be able to end the conflicts since it won't be beholden to lobbies and special interests  

As poets, we can endeavour to create poems that are not graphic but verses of beauty since "a thing of beauty is a joy forever" (John Keats)

Appreciate your lively to and fro banter. Weird Elf, a suggestion I have is to create a separate stream for extended discussions on a tangential frame so that the only comments following a poem are reviews of the poems.