Today's Featured Poem:
"Arid Delta" by @khaidon, from Drowning Dragon Slips by Burning Plains, published by @TTUPress.
Read here:
https://t.co/egdxDys9bJ
@craigsperez Thank you for coming and giving us student a lecture on eco-poetry some years , your poems has motivated and showed me the path on my writing. <3
Poetry has saved me from the dampness of my personal anger. The line breaks show me there is "break" to pause and take a breath, and move forward the close-up face of violence and try to chip a piece of quietness out of it.
In Gaza, a child is not really a child. Our eight-year-old son, Yazzan, has been talking about fetching his toys from the ruins of our house. He should be learning how to draw, how to play soccer, how to take a family photo. Instead, he is learning how to hide when bombs fall.