Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.
Clifton Snider
You Tell Me
I wanted to go to Baghdad to see the Tigris, to see elements of Western Civilization, to see, if not handle, descendants of the desert with eyes as deep as blood, with skin like river rocks, children of our forebears, cousins. But some of them voted for the one name on the ballot, a man who executed cabinet ministers, who sent young men to die fighting a neighbor --two neighbors-- who failed to be conquered by the father of our illegitimate leader, he of the sodden eyes, who worships blood and oil.
If I get to Baghdad, what and who will be there to see, to understand?
