Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.
Jamie Dedes
60 years old
I am a poet, writer, and blogger. My blogs are: Musing by Moonlight Brooklyn Memories Most Green
Other Mothers' Children
In Near Eastern places once held sacred The sky is bright with rocket glare and Other mothers’ children stare unseeing From shattered hovels, no sweet, wet Baby kisses from blistered lips with songs unsung No family portraits to dust and treasure, just bodies Some other mothers’ children rotting in the dust Frozen moments of horror framed in blood Limbs cracked and broken, bellies torn Faces purpled, hearts stopped Collateral damage, primary pain
Imagine
Imagine nothing to read or write no way to watch your saffron thoughts unfurl in gray graphite on pristine sheets of white
Imagine loneliness without solitude no way to swim between friends and lovers and the treasured company of your own secret muse
Imagine only filthy, brackish water or no water at all to cleanse your body, inside or out no clean springs in which to play by graceful glades
Imagine children conceived in rage and revenge mothers without means to provide, to protect endless explosions stilling life on killing grounds
Imagine knowing only war poverty ignorance powerlessness hunger
Imagine dying before you are old enough to know who you are
