Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.

Bernice Rendrick

72 years old
Santa Cruz, Ca.

I have written and published poetry for 20 years in many journals and magazines.

Resolve

When the onions push
through the heap of potatoes
in the rabbit basket,
raise green swords
higher each day

and look like the jonquils
outside, not yet in bloom,
but struggling
through the still cold soil

they give me hope
that as usual spring intends
to soon end winter.

All over the world
tips and blades break
through ice and snow,
lift through rotted leaves,
wake sleeping branches.

In Iraq, where my country
seems determined to attack
and split the foreign earth
where children run--

even there, spring
belongs
and wants to force

a peaceful resolve
written in the earth's ink,
a fresh sharp green
unlike the black of oil
and the red of blood.

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