“The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. " (Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War, circa 431 B.C.E) …They killed twenty Poles (women and children) Piled …

Who will watch the Unwatched Time When seconds Smear And the day Slowly tears Leaking out Listen carefully And you might hear: The stripling spirits Suspire As the freighted minutes Calve and collapse …

Is there a bright line That separates Indifference and contempt From the darker Urge to exterminate? Surely it is a journey of a thousand steps… That leads over the Mountains of Deceit Down through …

We gave bloody battle Then violent death To the meat Filthy dogs Dared bite the hand That feeds Vile vermin That keeps forgetting To be forgotten Insisting on their history Their suffering Deserving …

Each day we watch Astonished As you grow in strength Into your blood feathers Terrifying juvenile Your prayers are for prey All you see is your suffering Everything not you Must be sacrificed, slew …

Another day Wrestling with God Nothing is forgiven Someone has to pay Something must be given Unholy offering There is no promised land Fragrant with the fruits of compassion You, who will not paint …

We questioned him hard, hammered him watched him break into a thousand pieces and shards. Then he gave us what we wanted. He begged and cried. that’s one of their tricks to try to make us stop, …

What promise Was forgotten or broken To make us so Forsaken? Surely there is A purpose to This wild suffering Our abandonment Did we Choose this Freely? Our wanderlust To wander lost In wilderness My …

What could it do To a people to learn So many family members Were beaten and burned? Humiliated, Massacred and Hounded From home. Across countries, Centuries. Culled in crusades, Murdered by Catholics …

“ I am going to put an end to all people, for the earth is filled with violence because of them. I am surely going to destroy both them and the earth.” (Genesis 6:13) Find something you love: A girl …

10 poems about Israel and Palestine1 2 Introduction # “Whatever is hateful and distasteful to you, do not do to your fellow man. This is the entire Torah, the rest is commentary. Go learn. …

Another morning I awake and shake My tired head Warm the old Cold coffee That’s when the panic hits me ‘My God!, you lunatic! What have you done? Look what you wrote! Do you remember what …

A fearful people Can do such terrible things They are so easily tempted Frightened into Wagering with Satan And guaranteed Damnation The people of Canaan (To appease Great powers Or avoid defeat) …

They’ll try To cut The threads That bind us To freeze The love that flows Between us So they can Segregate or Imprison us They’ll try To quell Our ‘slave’ rebellion They aim To …

These ’translations’ were made relying on a number of sources including AI translations and, in respect of ‘It Is Possible’, relying heavily on Robert Bly’s translation …

It seems that we can never move straight or true. The distance between you and me destined always to be travelled concentrically. It appears that I digress moving at 90 degrees from my heart’s …

poem for a wedding Write me a poem about being together… One wonders when to rhyme it with weather Or whether to say Weathering the storms altogether And yet like relationships The best lines of a …

Palpitating Shiver of sea Sparkling splinter of Numinous ocean Gifted personality The Great Green Divested of all terror Its playfulness distilled to Living livery of wave I return new-born With …

In memory of Gerard Manley Hopkins Today I see the god In everything And everything to me Proclaims and sings And dances Like the dragonflies In spring Gentle reminder That the flame Is not the fire …

Little escaped their minute attentions and predations: The Soul, an early casualty Of more precise instrumentation Senescence, just another Dragon to be slayed The mysteries gave way To complex …

To your people the Mekong means business The Nam Kang is their playground. – – – Your children have suffered much from your beauty and your weakness. – – – Their children will suffer for their beauty …