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For the [now countless] Dead of Gaza
And the news tells me, now, / another 436 slaughtered / by the Zionist killing machine, / by the American shells and / the German bullets / and the laughter of a Von-der-Leyen / in their many bloodstained-bunkers
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Welcome, to The Age of the Lie
This, then, was the news today. / It falls like a missile / over the heads of / innocent babies. / No one else is innocent. /Not you nor me. /Not the dead young men they call martyrs, /not the massacred men and the mutilated men
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An End – to – Empire
There is no end in sight to/ this endless night./ No end to the death of children./ They die singly and in multitudes/ in languages such as Arabic, Mayan, Malay, Irish, Tibetan, Palestinian,/ Kurdish…/ They die in poverty while the / powerful climb higher and higher/ on their mountains of greed / and garbage
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“Thieves” and “Murderers” (Whitewashing War Crimes)
There is no time now to write books. / No time to bury our dead. / Our world has had its tongue castrated / by those in power, / its humanity ethnically cleansed, / cruelty is now “reasonable”, “realistic”, “rational””, / its war only massacre and genocide / in the name of peacekeeping
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Netanayahu’s Amalek. A “love” poem for Israel
If we could but reach / out enormous arms like / wings that reach horizon’s / end and far farther beyond / all hurt and everywhere / embrace each single one / before the bare-naked bombs. A poem by Séamas Carraher
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KATYUSHA – A “love” poem for Gaza
“Katy”, I said, (if that is your name) / “why do we make war and not love /any more?”/“Go ask the Generals. / Go ask the Politicians in their /well-dressed suit-and-lies./Go ask the Money and its Masters,/their insane industry of profit and pain.”
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(Our) HISTORY (is Theirs), (Their) STORY (is Ours). For all refugees and those who seek asylum
for soon we will live / in a century / where they will suspend / all poets and preachers /from street-lights and the /television of crucifixions / like heretics once lit / with a bonfire of books
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THIS PORNOGRAPHY They CALL “PEACE”
When the voice of peace will soon no longer even be told to shut up nor beaten from the streets because these streets have swallowed all our dreams someone forgot to wake a long long time ago while the world was falling asleep
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A Letter from the Dead – Tehran, July 31, 2024
On the day of the death of Ismail Haniyeh – assassinated in Tehran, the capital of Iran, in the early hours of Wednesday. “Killing Haniyeh really is a sign from the Israelis that they are not interested in negotiating the ceasefire”
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Gaza, Palestine. Another Unwritten Lament
On July 12th, 2024, Middle East Eye, published this video of a Palestinian mother at the grave of her son, killed by an Israeli air-strike, in Gaza city. Here, now, is a lament no one has written yet
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