Stand up for Palestinians Elegy for Gaza and the Occupied West Bank (October, 2024)
While settlers build more homes on land not theirs,
and outposts spread like mushrooms after rain;
while hundredfold comes vengeance, Gaza bears
the brunt of an unquenched Israeli pain.
While soldiers and policemen sent to keep
the peace take sides with zealots and with thieves,
a pummelled strip of debris makes us weep,
where innocents lay dead like autumn leaves.
To bomb a child, a woman, or the old,
to kill, by chance, a tunnel rat below,
is cowardly, unconscionable and cold,
not actions of the noble, but the low.
A neutered world is looking on, aghast,
as Palestinians live the Jewish past.
Like much of the Global South and an increasing number of people in the West, I can't understand how this out-of-control, disproportionate punishment can be allowed to continue.
Below are links some of my work:
Exodus Mortis is a disturbing look at a refugee camp worker's experiences.
https://everydayfiction.com/exodus-mortis-by-paul-a-freeman/
A Day for Decisiveness, is a prize-winning romantic-ish tale about a young man looking for the opportunity to speak to the woman who infatuates him.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness-1.367803/
A Nice Run is a deceptively mundane 100-word story that will leave you slack-jawed.
https://www.fridayflashfiction.com/100-word-stories/a-nice-run-by-paul-a-freeman
Tomorrow's Fossils is a poem, a sonnet to be more precise, examining Man's place in the great scheme of things.
https://www.cornicemag.com/content/tomorrow's-fossils
Happy Writing
While settlers build more homes on land not theirs,
and outposts spread like mushrooms after rain;
while hundredfold comes vengeance, Gaza bears
the brunt of an unquenched Israeli pain.
While soldiers and policemen sent to keep
the peace take sides with zealots and with thieves,
a pummelled strip of debris makes us weep,
where innocents lay dead like autumn leaves.
To bomb a child, a woman, or the old,
to kill, by chance, a tunnel rat below,
is cowardly, unconscionable and cold,
not actions of the noble, but the low.
A neutered world is looking on, aghast,
as Palestinians live the Jewish past.
Like much of the Global South and an increasing number of people in the West, I can't understand how this out-of-control, disproportionate punishment can be allowed to continue.
Below are links some of my work:
Exodus Mortis is a disturbing look at a refugee camp worker's experiences.
https://everydayfiction.com/exodus-mortis-by-paul-a-freeman/
A Day for Decisiveness, is a prize-winning romantic-ish tale about a young man looking for the opportunity to speak to the woman who infatuates him.
https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/short-story-a-day-for-decisiveness-1.367803/
A Nice Run is a deceptively mundane 100-word story that will leave you slack-jawed.
https://www.fridayflashfiction.com/100-word-stories/a-nice-run-by-paul-a-freeman
Tomorrow's Fossils is a poem, a sonnet to be more precise, examining Man's place in the great scheme of things.
Happy Writing
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