by Hannah Poaros-McDermott | Apr 18, 2009 | Poetry
He walks, he talks, he sleeps – he fights. but he does not get a chance to feel the rain in the summer, or watch a flower bloom under the sun. the moon is nothing new to him, it’s surface full of hired light. he’s only got borrowed time to be a boy to be a...
by Louise Glen-Lee | Apr 18, 2009 | Poetry
The Father loved him, Bound himself to him – patiently waiting for a text to arrive To tell him he was safe and warm After days of being out on manoeuvres in the arid deserts of Afghanistan. Father was waiting on a tiny island in the middle of the sea Unable to...
by Ciaran Quirke | Apr 18, 2009 | Poetry
She sat by the lake attempting to Find the peace and he quiet desired, She saw the bird, dive to water And attempt to catch a salmon, It dodged and swam to the shallows. The war in which her husband Dodged the shot, He was the salmon down in the Valley and he...
by Josh Williams | Apr 17, 2009 | Poetry
Frozen, moving, drawn with lead, Partly, poorly, brightly dead. Outscreams the love and moves the damaged into view, With sorrow crying at the hue of bodies in the hollow mind. Lived in, tiresome, lonesome dread, Exhausted thoughts, too shallow bed. Embrace! The...
by Kerry Dainty | Apr 17, 2009 | Poetry
A war, a convoy, a letter through the door, A wife that is a wife no more Her children are called away from school To be broken the news so terribly cruel “Your father has sailed to a distant land And can not be reached by human hand No more shall we meet him upon the...
by Jenny Morris | Apr 16, 2009 | Poetry
He understands nothing. Doesn’t know his big GI father, his Vietnamese mother who discards him. His is an unwelcome. Called Vu, he’s no-one’s son. The orphanage is dumb for this baby. He learns thirst, hunger, to be mute to feel tears scald his eyes fear to make his...
