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

Bethel Prescott

47 years old

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blossoms in sunset
four thousand lanterns
float down river

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by the cold stone
another wreath  - -
twenty-one guns

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Fourth of July -
on a flag so deeply red
white is forgotten

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a banner
"WE SUPPORT OUR TROOPS"
       sun-faded

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leaves fall

            bombs fall

                       leaves fall

Tanka

as he listens
my father mends
our screen door
the solemn music
of impeachment hearings

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stryker
strike her
face down
foot on her back
is this
what democracy
looks like?

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                     Gaza child
snow and ashes blow
                 in an open grave

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sweltering gridlock ~
in the Humvee's window
one gold star

McNamara's Fog

Little
cat feet?
Oh No!

Instead a hood,
locked and tied
down.

Drowning
our city
to sleep.

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Veterans Day --
blood-red the poppies
still blooming

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Bremerton swale -
a lone goose goose ignores
the battleships

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