Children War Poems

God,
One day, will you tell my why
little babies have to die?
Children starve while mothers cry
Deadly bombs drop from the sky
God, tell me. Tell me why.

God,
Feel...

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The wild clouds
Are traveling
In the firmament.

The missiles and projectiles
Are bursting the profile
Of many innocent people.

The children
Are crying on the benches,
And their moms
Are suffering miserably.

Big and...

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The Wilderness

The world around me
took my time away... 
and it tried to take 
everything else too, 
but that did not happen. 

Storms come and go,...

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concrete crib
gunfire lullabies
burnt lungs
grout eyes

weak pulse
slate tears
rubble nursery
Lifeless stares

debris clouds
airstrikes rain
blood soaked vest
war crime stain

Precious innocence
dusty gray
buried alive
unnamed grave...

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It caters to an arrogance of hate
when war becomes a method of despite.
Through vile contempt, he seeks to cultivate
a dogma that defines inhuman blight.
The devil’s...

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if I lie, will you believe me?
what if I don't, will you believe me?
what must I do for you to believe me?
what must I say...

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If only you knew the feel of a zephyr,
With its current swooping around hillsides
Ruffling the spruce trees everywhere,
Or descend downwards towards verdant vales
Where flowers bloom...

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Dear Margot

We have never met
sixteen going on seventeen
every child should have dreams
yours stolen at nineteen
I wish I knew, truly
is it evil or hate?
to steal the...

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Wounded

Broken and wounded, he lay on the bed.
His children watch silently.
The mortar round had worked.
...

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No War No Protest!

Colors of red, green, black, and white 
spread on the east side of one campus
On the other a wave of white, and...

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During the Civil War, money came late,
Indians starved, left to their fate.
Two braves came across a white farmer's food.
They were hungry and stressed and in...

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  Night after night, images flicker on the tube
    Horrific images of ‘the enemy’ dying
      Dying...

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It's hard to fathom that in 2024,
the ugliness of antisemitism has
reared it's head once more..
Campus students  need to
 change their perspective.
It's not the Jewish...

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One day after Earth Day…thinking about what Earth Day is celebrated for…
I’m also thinking about all the children on opposite sides of a war

Thinking of...

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A border is a line drawn in the sand
Constantly shifting if you have time to see
A personality is a borderline ebbing
Time ceaselessly flowing us away...

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