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

Jan Theuninck

51 years old
Vlaanderen/Belgium/Europe

Jan Theuninck, artist for peace, justice and civil liberties, was born in Belgium in 1954.He's an abstract painter and poet.

Yperite

late at night

a mist

fills the valley.

without knowing

it suffocates

like a dark power.

on the fields

our dead bodies

and under the grass

a brown soil

Polygon Wood

like a shrine
you lie
in the middle
of the wood
and  warn  
of  those
who preach
peace
and make
war

when you left

for the front

you were

living heroes

and now

you’re on top

of the hill

where only

poppies

blow..........

Beyond the limit

tempting is
the border area
hanging around
in the gray zone
watching the game
of back and forth
seeing how vanity
and power
push them
far
beyond the limit

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