Collateral Damage
by Martina Reisz Newberry
First, there was a thousand years of famine,
then a moment of surplus. Death’s flawless
dreams waited for our silent coming. We
bloomed—black Narcissus on a bruised and
desecrated desert. We set the clocks
for the earth to explode under us.
We ignored the signs, transfused the wounded
with tainted blood and gave medicines that
dissolved the bones of our brothers. We cut
open our sisters’ bodies and placed bitter
leaves in their wombs. We polished our own hearts
with aluminum salts borrowed from the
cellars of devils. We delivered fears
and fevers and the certainty of God’s
malicious ending. Where death lay sleeping,
we woke death up to sort our morals from
our memories. We, the conquerors of
cracked earth and merciless yellow sky, moved
on without apology and death stayed
behind, where we left it. All this, all this,
we cried, we did for Peace.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Kumarakom (after the boat tragedy) by Shreekumar Varma
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Скажите
- Robert Burns: The Humble Petition Of Bruar Water: To the noble Duke of Athole.
- Константин Бальмонт – Черный и белый
- Is Life Worth Living? poem – Alfred Austin
- Poetics poem – A. R. Ammons poems | Poetry Monster
- A Day on the Beach of War by Tony Stringfellow
- Robert Burns: Mary Morison:
- The Seeing Eye poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Like The Sweet Apple by Sappho
- Two Campers In Cloud Country by Sylvia Plath
- Chain Of Pearls by Rabindranath Tagore
- The Cyclists poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Dear Harp of my Country by Thomas Moore
- Омар Хайям – Благородные люди, друг друга любя
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