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Tag: Poetry

Posted on Dec 21, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Azrael

She sits, head in hands.

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Posted on Dec 12, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Radicalised

Immersed in purpose-penned poetry, I can not do else; cannot but cry emphatic.

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Posted on Dec 10, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Tears

The tears in the eye; on the cheek; in the palms; on the dress.

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Posted on Dec 8, 2023

Song Of Palestine – The Sniper & The Boy-Child

There is no poetry…

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Posted on Dec 8, 2023

Song Of Palestine – All Violence ‘Pon The Western Bank

A farce of a pause in Gaza.

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Posted on Dec 8, 2023

Song Of Palestine – The Pause

Don’t clap for evil.

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Posted on Dec 8, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Into Egypt

Beyond their rightful home
into the Land Of Egypt.

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Posted on Dec 5, 2023

A Sonnet To The Man From Stratford

It was not the man from Stratford‽

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Posted on Nov 20, 2023Nov 20, 2023

Isis, Su-Tekh, & The Falcon-Child: VIII

I send my Eye along the river of the underworld to breathe my power!

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Posted on Nov 19, 2023Nov 19, 2023

Song Of Palestine – For The Child; For The Children

You’ll never know it.

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Posted on Nov 19, 2023Nov 19, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Not In Their Name

Olive-tree branches, strong for Palestine!

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Posted on Nov 14, 2023

Song Of Palestine – The Mass Graves Of Gaza

Hauling in the fractured dead…

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Posted on Nov 12, 2023Nov 12, 2023

Song Of Palestine – When Does The Song End?

It doesn’t.

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Posted on Nov 11, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Armistice Means Ceasefire

For the dead of conflicts ended long ago before their birth they’ll say “Armistice!”.

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Posted on Nov 6, 2023

Song Of Palestine – Paradise

The child said: Was it The Accursed who sent you? Was it God?

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