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Tag: Palestine

Posted on November 4, 2023

Song Of Palestine – A Slice Of Watermelon

Green-White; Red-Flesh; Black-Seeds.

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Posted on October 31, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Unholy Land

Half the world takes a stand, bearing black; green; white; red!

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Posted on October 29, 2023October 29, 2023

Song Of Palestine -قهر

Deep, cyclical, inherited, heart-gripping…

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Posted on October 29, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Beneath The Weeping Of The Olive Tree

Condemned by th’Jewish people it betrays.

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Posted on October 28, 2023October 28, 2023

Song Of Palestine – The Angel Of Death

It can be felt.

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Posted on October 27, 2023

Song Of Palestine – A Homeland More Than Ruin; A People More Than Suffering

Precious. Valid. Storied. Human.

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Posted on October 26, 2023October 26, 2023

Song Of Palestine – The Land Between Them

The Great Sea waits.

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Posted on October 25, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Refuge

Like flags of fierce resistance, laundry dries in its black, green, red, ‘n white…

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Posted on October 23, 2023October 24, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Vengeance

Racism is fear.

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Posted on October 22, 2023

Song Of Palestine – This Land Is Mine

D’you see God in th’pillars of fire that make this land their own?

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Posted on October 21, 2023October 21, 2023

Song Of Palestine – A Sonnet To The Child Of Flight; To The Child Of Ruin

She stands beside the water, watching all, her ethnicity in her hair ‘n hue.

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Posted on October 21, 2023October 21, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Finding Gaza

Paraseti… Peleshet… Palastu… Palestine.

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Posted on October 20, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Silence

I didn’t know; I didn’t try to know.

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William Altoft

William Altoft

Writer in and from (and consistently on) Bristol.

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