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

Paul Sprague

57 years old

The War at Home

I clicked off the television
and stepped outside
to escape news of the war

but even here,
in rural New Hampshire,
the morning mist rises
Like smoke on a battlefield,

a rusted wheelbarrow leans
bleeding against the shed
like a dying soldier,

while the wind chimes clang
like church bells
in the gardens of the dead.

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