Tag "War crimes"
Back to homepage
War – this Embrace of the Butcher – Comes Again (and again…and again)
Seems now Death /has come to squat /squinty-eyed and sadly-obese /straight from the tanning tables /of Teheran or Tabriz/and from the grim Graveyards /of Gaza / come to sit and squat /outside /our bedroom door
Read More
For the Schoolgirls of Minab
i papered its walls, properly, / with pictures of heroes who / once held our humanity / high as a flag to fly freely / on dark days and days of woe / but all our heroes have died / and here and now / is our Time / of Woe . A poem by Séamas Carraher dedicated to the schoolgirls killed in Iran by the United States
Read More
To the Enemies of Humankind
and for the Kurdish people in Rojava, Occupied Kurdistan for the Palestinian people in Occupied Palestine and for those resisting, under paramilitary siege, in the Occupied Cities of the U.S.
Read More
Gaza ‘CEASEFIRE’? “Death, in Slow Motion” or…“Happy” “New” Year, Gaza…
and now, and here, where / “even getting one loaf of bread into Gaza” / must change / “the whole of the geopolitical order.”/ Enough! Basta! / Even the silenced corpse complains
Read More
STARVATION
“Many new tyrants keep a copy of Mein Kampf in their drawer; it could still come in handy, maybe [NOW] with some adjustments or the substitution of some names.” ( Primo Levi, 1986)
Read More
Now End All Thoughts of Peace?
For (small) Amayah – and her World…waiting to be born. It was the Autumn of the Fences / and blood flowed freely. / So freely it froze the fragile faces of / the small ones and the innocent ones
Read More
Towards the Writing of a History of the Persecuted
Day One: you wake in the womb only / to realise your destination / was destroyed – pogroms ago – by the dumb / acquiescence of the fearful and the ferocious greed / of the greedy
you will wake in the womb only to realise / your destination was destroyed / by American, German, British, Italian & Indian weapons
The Sick Man Bites the Doctor
On the execution of 15 unarmed Palestinian emergency responders by the Israeli Defense Forces (March 24, 2025)
Read More
“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
Read More
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
Read More