Gaza – December 2008
Whatever it takes
That is what’s required
Whatever is necessary
Buildings on fire
Innocent children
Mutilated in the streets
Regrettable as always
Buried in bed sheets
A people starving
Isolated and alone
Surrounded by walls
Demilitarised zone
There is no civilised solution
There is only horror to abhor
That is the consequence
Of being at war
That is the cost
That others must bare
Let it be known
Let them beware
A nation alone
It’s kill or be killed
No in between measures
That cyanide pill
No half measures
No compromise solutions
Fu*k all the neutrals
The UN resolutions
The state of Israel
Stands condemned
By all around it
It has few friends
Death to the Zionists
Death to the Jews
Listen To Syria
The Iranians to
Wipe out Israel
From the face of the earth
No room for the Jews
Where Mary gave birth
How can a nation compromise
Over its very existence
The extremes from Islam
Forever persistent
Hamas hid behind children
Rockets to fire
Their paramilitaries and Iran
And Hezbollah all conspire
No solution is possible
So might must persist
The State of Israel
By rights shall exist
So Gaza is a blaze
And Islam proclaims
The Jews of Israel
As always are to blame
No word of condemnation
For continual rocket attacks
So to ensure survival
The Israeli’s hit back
A nation alone
Should not listen to the rest
Go screw all those diplomats
From East and from West
Their national identities
Their very existence is not at stake
So death and destruction
Will follow in the wake
Until and at last
The state of Israel is accepted
But until that day
Its borders must be protected
Two thousand years
Persecuted by Christianity
Decried by Islam
Pogroms of insanity
A country reborn
And started a new
This country of Israel
Now belongs to the Jew
Lift the prolonged siege
To release civilised behaviour
To long have the Jews suffered
For killing the Saviour
A nation under siege
From its post war conception
Suffering from Arab,
Islamic and fundamentalist deception
Where was the press voice
The world media attention
After continual rocket attacks
Without any suspension
Hypocrisy prevails
Now Israel reacts
For the press was previously silent
During years of rocket attacks
Proportional action
Is not what is required
The eradication of Hamas
That should be desired.
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Bravo Bird, but dont expect any shinys from the judge... seems the content of this is in direct conflict with his bigoted and one eyed views... I commend you on writing a well rounded, unbiased poem that tells it like it is...
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I'm not sure what this means. However the last few lines have a couple of typos. When you write:
"Now Israel reacts
For the press was previously silent
During years of rocket attacks
Proportional action
Is not what is required
The eradication of Hamas
That should be desired."
I think this should read:-
"Now Israel slaughters again
For the press was previously silent
During years of vile murders.
Proportional action
Is not what is required.
The eradication of Israel
from the map will be lovely."
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Insanity
many thanks - yes the possibilty of poets using rhyme / prose in everyday language has many humourosu possibilities.
Bird -
Edna
Apologies for the typing errors - but many of us who have lived in Belfast from 1969 until 1996 have a particular way of typing which other academics and theorists find hard to understand
Bird
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