Tag Archives: Peace and Love

on Ukraine

recruitment drive posters
repeated lies in Moscow
swap son for a box

~

n.b. All recruitment campaigns for armed forces show healthy, fit, young people, looking confident; money, fun, patriotism, (death, killing and being seriously maimed are in the unwritten small print).

CLP 26/03/2023

Collateral Damage

 what would
we
do
if
he
dropped
bombs
here
?



as we
saw
it
fall
we'd know
it's all
over
for
us 
!



would we make up
where we 
could offer
necessary apologies
long overdue 
balance our
consciences
play music 
say one 
final I
love
you
?

~

n.b. NaPoWriMo 2022 Day Twenty-eight prompt; Concrete poem. I have to admit to having had such thoughts lately. Day twenty-eight of NaPoWriMo 2022, but day Sixty Three in Ukraine.

CLP 28/04/2022

Peace at Last

n.b. GloPoWriMo / NaPoWriMo 2020 Day 9 prompt: Concrete Poem.