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Open Poetry #24

my soul sister

Midnitesun

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since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

0 posted 2003-02-05 02:12 PM

I am Khali Gul.
God-Allah has taken my man.
God-Allah has taken my tiny son.
God-Allah has taken my tiny daughter.
Soon he shall take me.
Will my last child be spared?

I smell the neighbors baking bread.
They are very rich.
They eat at least once each day.
Before me is a bowl of grasses,
wildly foraged from the
frozen foothills of my village,
grasses that even Euell Gibbons
would have passed by.

The aroma of the freshly baked bread
teases me, fills my head.
I chew my barley grass and weeds.
Maybe next fall
I will also have some seeds.
I patiently await the Spring,
while inhaling the aroma of the bread.

Ah, a cup of Starbucks
would be nice.

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this is a necessary edit and repost, because too many of my sisters are still hungry, still abused, still forced to suffer the fate of war

***

May ripples of LOVE
become waves of PEACE

[This message has been edited by Midnitesun (02-05-2003 02:43 PM).]

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