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

Marilyn Wallner

78 years old

On the threshold of her eigth decade, Marilyn Wallner (always an anti-death penalty pacifist: "Don't fight, kids, talk talk.")--comes from  Carmichael, CA proud to swell the progress of poets armed only with words. We come in peace asking for peace.

Collateral Damage

These people who sent "the willing"
to crush, to kill, to maim
to be crushed, killed, maimed,
I gave them neither leave nor license
to wreak this havoc.
Yet I am culpable
because their agents carry my flag,
are armed by my taxes

If I went to that shell-shocked place
to protest my innocence,
I would speak in the tongue
of the occupier and they would
still my voice
with their country's clay.

              Marilyn Wallner

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