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In this Place of Tragedy

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and here now, Mr Netanyahu / is the Promised Land of your Laughing Soldiers / your savage soldiers, these cowardly-killers, / whose bones are now pure poison / whose mothers will no longer recognise them

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One More Question for Gaza – after the decision of the International Court of Justice

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“You can’t really order Israel to do everything within its power to stop the genocide while not ordering a ceasefire… a ceasefire is what we want, we want now… and it’s the most important thing to stop the genocide”

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“Do you wish to return home”? Letter to Israel of the Zionist Settlers

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“These leaflets were dropped on Gaza’s starving population today. It’s one more clear and cruel way Israel is telling the Palestinians in Gaza that they are being deliberately targeted, starved, and uprooted.”

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War Came (to Gaza)

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War came / and took the sleep from the bed / took the food from the children’s mouths / took the doctors and the hospitals / and burned them all alive.

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For Gaza Now Swallowed by Storm (A Lament)

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“In the street in Gaza, on a gravestone (made of a wooden board, probably from a damaged closet), they wrote: ‘Unknown martyr, a decaying corpse, wearing training suit and an olive green jacket.’ The world must stop here.”

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Palestinian Poet calls for All People to Take-Up the Pen (for Gaza)

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Mosab Abu Toha, palestinian poet founder of the Edward Said Library in Gaza, has just issued a call for people to rise up and prove that the pen is and will be – mightier than the sword

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Go Tell Your Poem (to the children of Gaza)

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this world / is too old for poetry / or too young to heed its warning, / or too heartbroken now / to grieve its exiled ghosts

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A(nother) GAZA Poem… on the day after

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Here it was the morning of the storm / the month after 12,000 someone’s world / ended – (4,506 of them children!) / – in fire and fury; / the day after the World choked back / its heartbreak and rage

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A Poem for Gaza

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In my dream (which is not really a dream at all!) / i watch the incinerated corpses / of words and orphaned Palestinian children / hanging from these cruel mouths / after the bloody soldiers have left and / taken their rage and poison with them

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