Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.
Gene Barry
52 years old
I am a Biomedical Engineer,a Psychotherapist and a Poet. I have had poems published in both the US and Ireland. My poems have been included in Stony Thursday, Revival, Dark Stream, Emara and the Douglas Post. My first collection will be published later this year. I am married to Margo and I have four children from my first marriage. I love poetry, rugby, music and cooking.
Letter to Hashim
Letter to Hashim For Huda Ghaliya
I am Huda and I scream to you in the skies above me, please do not leave me alone to mourn for I
have dipped my tiny limbs beneath the hem of death’s door and trawled for those same arms that hugged me,
for the sets of lips that were mine to kiss, for that parental safety net woven by my future and my arms are empty.
I am the only day of our week that lives on this beach of trading on the edge of another bloody empire.
I would trade all spices here today a world of olibanum and ostrich feathers, I would add my name to the menu
of slaves, I would tame a thousand Buraqs and trek to our future. But I cannot. For their summer rain has lashed
death to my childish frame, a burden your great grandson will unleash, a memory I will undress each day. But my
boswellian roots I will anchor to this blood-stained land that alexander failed to arid turn, my tears I will trade for peace.
