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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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ELEGY for al-Shifa Hospital
The second deadly raid on the hospital began on March 18 and ended with the total destruction of the main Gazan hospital on April 1, 2024
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A Ceasefire Fell – like an Angel Shot from the Sky
after the UN Security Council voted 14 to 1/ (a solitary America raising the Flag of Abstention like / a marker over a mass-grave), / voted unanimously for the much needed – if temporary – / ceasefire to the savage slaughter of the Palestinian people
in the grim ghetto of Gaza
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CURSE. In A Time of Endless War
Curse? / A child’s tears before the blows fall / In Mariupol or Khan Younis. / These laughing soldiers with their /
teeth reeking of human flesh
