Is it New Year’s eve in Palestine?Is there glitter on tanks to make them shine?Will there be no bombing tomorrow?A new year break from spreading strife and sorrow? Will rockets, for a day, not igniteFires that consume everyone in sight!Will trucks of food be allowed inside?Will the war of hate take a pause tonight? Will… [Read more…]
What is the cost of life? Who can say? The martyr’s wife? Or the minister who thinks he can resign in shame, To absolve himself of guilt and blame? The cost of life, if you need to know,Ask the terrorist who brought death in tow.Has intentional killing ever brought glory?Is the cost of life just… [Read more…]
A princess she’d been, with a pretty dress and shiny hair,The li’l girl, who’d been her mother, had taken her everywhere. Then craftily, one day she had been stolen from her home,Thrown down in dust she was, her hair messed and dress torn.A hole was made in her plastic back, and something stuffed deep inside,And… [Read more…]
December 31, 2008
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