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and my mother's contribution to Poets against War:
                                                    Weapons of Mass Destruction
                                                                         (c) 2003 Dorothy Lykes

I.

Young men
heard drums,
marched away
leaving children

fatherless

who in their youth
heard drums
kissed wives
and marched
leaving fatherless

children . . .

II.

Desert sand melts
into green glass.
Other greens:
glacial ice
ocean depths
spring hills
red-headed children's
      eyes
and Christmas trees.

III.

Winking stars,
the eyes of sky,
witness evolution
from primal animal
       to man.

Suspecting man's final acts
nature moans a wind
a cello seizes
and plays.

The sky is moved
to shed a hurricane.

 

For more anti-war poems, click on:

Poets Protest War

Andromache by Franz Andres Morrissey

(I love you, Mom).