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twenty one gun salute -
the deep hollow sound
that follows

deborah

encircling
the camps
wagons

daniel

spring -
the yellow color
of cluster bombs

Serge

war escalation -
cherry blossoms burst forth
in the countryside

Carmen Sterba

An old pair of shoes
at the feet of dead soldier
wind woven sand shroud

Moussia

'light of liberty'
prisoners seated in the dust
warriors standing up

imperial spring --
in the desert dust
seeds of terrorism

Serge

I remember from ground zero
dead bodies and
broken statues of Rodin

Daniel Py (France)

 

first day of war --
I change the blade
of my cutter

 

daisy cutter --
a bomb for a country
without flowers

Serge

 

 

dried cherry flower
among pictures of his wife
soldier at home

Moussia

first day of war -
on a sunlit white wall
two flies making love

Dietmar Tauchner,
Austria

fog around the sun -
rumours of atrocities
in a distant land

Alison (UK)

Bagdad market
Whitsunday first fruits
baptism of fire

Moussia

indiscriminate firing,
another war of oxymorons
and desert blossoms

deborah russell

Blossoming
Spring 2003
Exploding

Daniel

 

first cheers
tearing down his pictures
in the south

mike farley

Bagdad bombings
The couple next door
still fighting

Daniel Py

South Station --
a little boy pets
the bomb-sniffing dog

Paul David Mena

first day of war
a lost dog
comes to my door

deborah russell (USA)

from cradle of
civilization to burial ground---
metal rain

r.wilson

news of the war
i knit my worry
into this sweater

Heather

 

cruise missile strike
quakers stand on the corner
holding candles

Heather

after the bombing
blue sky replaced the buildings-
pinks were in blossom

Jack Galmitz

lullaby -
a handfull of petals
dropped one by one

rocked cradle -
a cluster of buds
that will not bloom

mayhem so soon after april's fool day

sprite (UK)

these battlefields
are not fields -- palm-lined boulevards
of old Baghdad

j r snyder (Austin)

Blumen auf dem Grab
des unbekannten Soldaten
eine Mutter weint a mother crying

flowers on the grave
of the unknown soldier
a mother crying

Renate Kuppers

war news dead bean vines rustle in the breeze

distant bombs a thin wisp of smoke from the chimney

Heather Madrone

spring breeze -
the movement of empty swings
and airborne pollutants

deborah russell

second thursday of the war
the same lawn, the same sun,
- the same pigeon ?

Daniel

some nerve . . .
the pigeon in its cage
another victim

Karma Tenzing Wangchuk

Under a pink sky
pink blossoms rain on pink thoughts
blood remains red

Moussia - Roma

Maple leaves unfurl
Shrapnel lodges in young girl's spine
Mockingbird returns

Holliday Cullimore (USA)

spring cleaning -
a dust storm
cleaning house

deborah russell

migration -
a flight of B52
heading East

grain after grain
bomb after bomb
shelter chapelet

Serge Tomé (Belgium)

 

small girl
gathering Sakura petals
in her mother`s hands

Etsuko (Japan)

news
of a pre-emptive strike
out of the night
the clank and rattle of
a heavy chain uncoiling

Alison (UK)