Tag: children under siege
member name: Safi Abdi
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July 04, 2006 04:59 AM EDT --
Palestine:
it's come to this: mere statistics
and tired data clogging the corridors.
the figures on any single day
may vary.
in the newsrooms.
stringed together the murders
in the eye of the camera . . .
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July 06, 2006 06:10 PM EDT --
I wrote this when the democratically elected Hamas came into power and the whole western world went into uproar.
Something tells me Gatherers need this to widen their perspective.
I must say I am . . .
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July 04, 2006 06:44 AM EDT --
The story of a child
Not combat attire.
The story of a child
Disarrayed in the rain.
Columns of tanks in battle array
And a woman carrying a pitcher of the rain.
She is his mother in total disarray . . .
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July 10, 2006 04:42 AM EDT --
If
I were a bird
I'd build my nest
In some corner
Out of sight.
If I were a bird
I'd perch
On the branch
Of a palm tree
And let Ache
On the wings
Flutter away.
But . . .
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July 14, 2006 03:56 AM EDT --
When days are filled with unnatural chants,
Often the handshakes are just as bare.
Scratched olive branches rot in the winds
As hurried Angels pick up the souls on heavenly wings; . . .
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July 19, 2006 07:26 PM EDT --
US Veto Power (Dictatorship in the Security Council)
Terrorist (You become a Terrorist if you say no to tyranny)
Ally (If you put selfish US interests before your people's legitimate interests . . .
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June 08, 2006 03:50 PM EDT --
Today US has lost a very important offspring....In the death of al- Zarqawi the Pentagon has lost a very convenient ally in the war on "Terror". All the while FOX News, CNN and the rest of the . . .
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July 16, 2006 06:39 AM EDT --
HizbuAllah, or the party of God, is a small Lebanese faction that is fighting the Middle East's strongest army. It's by virtue of its trust in God and steely determination that they are able to . . .
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July 12, 2006 04:52 AM EDT --
The absolute love
Of a spirit calling the beloved
To her bosom
Lip-service never satiates.
Hearts are aggrieved
At an unfairness celebrated.
With every tear shed
With every tiny . . .
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August 05, 2006 02:09 PM EDT --
To celebrate Olmert's bloodletting of Lebanese and Palestinian children and women, our lady Condoleeza Rice had parroted, on behalf of her boss, a rather sinister terminolgy. Out of this painful . . .
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July 10, 2006 05:11 AM EDT --
It's the closures
The wires coiled
The child trampled
The might employed
The land confiscated
The liberty destroyed
The human disgraced
The injustice endorsed
An occupation legalized
A whole . . .
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July 22, 2006 10:12 AM EDT --
if there is anything the Arab/Muslim street has been unanimous about is that Arab rulers have sold their souls. Whatever doubts people might have had about these corrupt individuals and their apparatus . . .
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July 23, 2006 07:43 AM EDT --
My dear President, Master and Dispatcher, please listen to me. Will you drop that golf club and come sit near me? Closer, closer, President. Now what do you see behind the mask? Do you see any trace of . . .
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August 05, 2006 04:36 AM EDT --
Listen to the bulldozers rumble
Sharon'd stoked up trouble
Don't grumble or tumble
Stretch that blanket
In the debris trodden.
Beware that tent UN strutted
Beyond the stars for cover, don't . . .
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August 26, 2006 10:17 AM EDT --
A government, by the people, for the people…, so went the song, sweet enticement for the masses...But that was until the Palestinians went to the polls to elect their leaders. Did we miss something . . .
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July 21, 2006 03:26 PM EDT --
When the saint and the sinner are one and the same
When the king and his subjects are similar in intent
When the evening shadow gulps down the morning star
When small beings destabilize their habitats . . .
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