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

Sarah Borsten

22 years old

Sarah recently graduated with a degree in Creative Writing from the University of Puget Sound.  Her poetry has been published by Cross Currents and will be appearing in The Roanoke Review in June 2008.

And he Lands in a Place

He leaves the ground
at oh eight hundred tomorrow
and while you shatter
into pieces of childhood
he is among the clouds,
cramped in a seat
next to ten thousand
who wear the same shirt
and whisper their fears
to no one.
And while the world
is flooding with our worry,
the tin plane he sits in
kicks fire beneath his folded hands
and he lands in a place
far from your voice.

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