Editor's Choice of Poems

Jumah al Dossari

Death Poem

Take my blood.
Take my death shroud and
The remnants of my body.
Take photographs of my corpse at the grave, lonely.
Send them to the world,
To the judges and
To the people of conscience,
Send them to the principled men and the fair-minded.
And let them bear the guilty burden, before the world,
Of this innocent soul.
Let them bear the burden, before their children and before history,
Of...

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Sarah Counter

We Wear Very Different Boots

WE WEAR VERY DIFFERENT BOOTS
By Sarah Counter
For SGT. Wesley Burnham


I wonder exactly
what the layers of dirt
on my boots
could tell you?
Would they give up
secrets about
where I have been?
Tell you everything
I have stepped in
to get to this point?
Would they tell you
how they ride
stuck in stirrups
trying to stand up
to get a better look?
Would they let you know
how proud I am
to...

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Osama Abu Kadir

Is It True?

Is it true that the grass grows again after rain?
Is it true that the flowers will rise up again in the Spring?
Is it true that birds will migrate home again?
Is it true that the salmon swim back up their streams?
It is true. This is true. These are all miracles.
But is it true that one day we'll leave Guantanamo Bay?
Is it...

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Bhuwan Thapaliya

Peace, come here and live with us forever.

Whenever we close our eyes
to decamp from an eternal strife,
we see the reflection of peace
in the shadow of the fire
burning inside our core.

We cannot sleep at night
and day we just chase it away.
Can it be true that:
They also think of peace, as we do.
They also long for peace, as we do....

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Brian Turner

Sadiq

It is a condition of wisdom in the archer to be patient      
      because when the arrow leaves the bow, it returns no more....

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