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

Rayna Nielsen

27 years old

Rayna lives in New Orleans and has seen things she never thought she would in this country.

Washing Square Park

I passed a city park the other day
Inside which people live
Ever since the Hurricane
Became a hippie tent village

Wide spaces under old trees
Filled with camper cars
Blue tarps cover army tents
Let’s all thank the government

Each person tells a story
Of wind and rain and flood
No one thought they would be
Still left here in the mud

I passed right by this park today
To find they were all gone
No tents, no clothes, no food
No blankets, no trash, no trace

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