Poems for Palestine

6 out of 21

(1)

75 years!

Is it just a number? 

An information?

Buried,deep.

Bloody past, blasts.

Dreams, demolished.

Memories, crushed.

Courage, trapped.

Fear, fired at.

Unburied sleep.

(2)

Occupied and stolen-

Land,

Dreams,

Future,

By the blue baboons.

Resilient and brave,

Are the man, 

              Women,

       And, children. 

Of  watermelon and olive land.

(3)

The father, who lost his daughter,

Stands beside a son.

The son, who lost his father,

Stands beside a brother.

The brother, who lost a sister, 

Stands beside a husband.

The husband, who lost a wife,

Stands beside a grandfather.

The grandfather, who lost all,

Stands beside a boy.

The boy, who lost a mother,

Stands next to a rubble.

Where everyone was lost.

(4)

(Note to self: +Complementary image must be added with this poem. Some random dots and dashes all over the page. Some are connected, like a tree. Alluding to the family tree. In this tree, some dots n dashes are smudged, removed, or simply blackened. Alluding to the currently happening genocide.)

Thousand year old generations,

Bombed, murdered, and splattered.

Father, mother, and children.

Shot, blown, and crushed.

(5)

Complete the sentence: one is done for you.

P(oorly Treated) 

A ______

L_______

E_______

S_______

T_______

I________

N_______

E_______

(6)

Poems no longer,

rhyme in Palestine.

Sentences are broken,

Abruptly stops.

Words are weak,

Letters are lean.

Meaning has no metaphor,

Only literal.

Written in rare ink.

And the Poets?

Buried, under the rubble.