War ConversationThem: We need a war, where can we find one and who will we choose to hate – and why?Another Them: Does it matter?First Them: Ah…good thinking!A humanitarian: I don’t think we should do war.Them: Why not?Humanitarian: I have children. No child should die in a war.Them: But a war will make things better?Humanitarian:ContinueContinue reading “War Conversation”
Category Archives: Poetry
The Saddest Thing
The support of war and violenceis the death of humanityfrom withinFirst your humanity diesthen other humans diewhich is okayThen your country is attackedthen your family diesand that is not okayUltimately it wasthe death of your humanitythat killed themBut you won’t see thatbecause war is justified for youyou just resent retaliationPeople should lay down and dieContinueContinue reading “The Saddest Thing”
Because
Who are you?A strangerSomeone I’ve never metAnd never willSo why should I care about you? Because You could be my childI could have given birth to youRaised youHeld youHelped you to take your first stepsChanged your nappyMarvelled at your first giggleNursed you when you couldn’t sleep I could have given you life I gave myContinueContinue reading “Because”
A Grandaughter’s War
In around 1999 I wrote a poem called “A Woman’s War”, which is in the poetry section of this blog. Never did I think I would write a follow up, yet today that poem arrived, it’s below, and writing it actually hurt. Trying to get my head around the fact that we could be inContinueContinue reading “A Grandaughter’s War”
Writer’s Block: The fight back
Writer’s block, the fight back! A poem.
Why?
Why is a what wordBefore you have a whatYou need to decide why you wantWhatever the what isWhy is an existential questionWhat is important todayOr ten minutes agoMay not be tomorrowOr in ten minutes’ timeWhy and what togetherChange each other all the timeWe humans are fluidWe plan for the futureDecide why we want somethingMake itContinueContinue reading “Why?”
I Think
Thanks to a Jetpack glitch that severely affects posting at times, I managed to put two poems on one page, one of which I couldn’t see because jet pack keeps hiding the text. So I’ve split them apart, and added this one because they both have a point.
Squaring the “I am” Circle
That is not the ending I expected after several light, almost deliberately confusing poems. Starting with that I Am exploration at Toastmasters 6 years ago. I like it though. Exploration through poetry is such fun. Therefore it must improve my Am. Excellent!
I Am – I Said
I’m loving this exploration as different ideas come out of each peace of writing. The idea that one sentence can change the way you’re seen, but not the way you see yourself.
I Am – I think
Moving through the stages of defining oneself, from simply I am, as in I exist, to thinking, now speaking…One of the things I love about poetry is the opportunity to get creative whilst you explore a thought.
Deb Hawken - Amorah 