Poems about Gaza

by moh22 Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:19 am

Reflecting on Gaza
Anne Benjamin

I
on a night
sharp with winter ice
burning skin —
Israel swears revenge
Hamas swears days of wrath

II
before the bombing
choked of necessities
grim survival —
women scrounge for money
to buy vermin-riddled flour

III
in houses
close to the target
windows shatter —
a sixteen year old girl
dies from cold and fright

IV
phosphorus
above empty streets
arches —
politicians promise
vengeance will bring peace

V
after the bombing
they dispatch supplies
medicine and food —
a doctor waits
beside children's corpses

VI
morning comes
red with haze and fire —
swirling in the dust
from Gaza and Israel
children play together

by moh22 Tue Jun 08, 2010 2:45 am

Lament over Gaza
Deborah Ruiz Wall

It crushes my heart to watch
injured and lifeless children
in Gaza — collateral damage
or sheer madness?
'Land is life', my Indigenous mentors
proclaimed, but I see its antithesis
now when tortured eyes conjure
bipolar images of stories retold
over and over by diasporic tribes
where past, present and future
coalesce in a war of retribution
so that in Palestine: land equals death.

Talk is not cheap, the war machine
that silences the whispering from beyond
our earthly dreams, will keep us all in chains
— away from reaching the fullness
of our humanity, away from
our oneness with the sanctity of all life

Poems about Gaza

Poems about Gaza

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