Head of a refugee camp can’t understand a woman who refuses to share a tent with a man who looks like the man who shot her husband.
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Tag: war
Birthing Pains
Giving birth in a war zone
Children Play Among Ruins of War
Describes how children play even in the horrific circumstances of war alongside the scars and fears that haunt them.
it takes awhile…
to forget childhood traumas or hideous
events like world trade center falling
Mine Heart
Mine Heart reminds us of the atrocities which men can inflict upon humanity.
Pond Life
A nine-year-old boy in postwar Britain realizes, from his own behaviour, what nastiness ordinary people were capable of.
Misandroid 2.0
Words drop, disconnect and die
as the babbling blather breaks.
War winter
I left America, where gun violence is endemic. Europe seemed safer. Russia invaded Ukraine. Europe still seems safer.
Love Thy Neighbor
A poem about the war in the Ukraine.
A Garden Grows
Christ wears a gas mask,
shudders as Putin’s machine
Superlatives
Centered on the often chaotic and ridiculous nature of existence.
If Love Turns to Hate … Socks Knocked Off, Gloves Peeled Off
When Love becomes silent cold war … Is it Hate? Is it Dependency or is it fear of changes? Deception seems to be the winner.
Russia’s war invading Ukraine
Monstrous Putin, bloody Russian dictator, wading in blood
Vile creature isolated in ivory tower using murder and terror
The Finch’s Song
Someone who has made an eternal decision, to find that perhaps the outcome isn’t exactly what they expected.
Taps – The Final Salute
My brother’s military funeral in the pouring rain.
The Voice of Truth
About Shireen Abu Aqla the Palestinian reporter.