I’m not bigly into poetry but was inspired to write something in response to a dVerse peompt of a couple of days ago, in which people are challenged to write about a subject that fires us up.
We will never forget
The Holocaust
The Deaths
The Outsiders
Who Fanned the Flames
The Destruction
The Deliberacy
The Master Race
The Apartheid
The Folly
Of Racial Supremacy
The Worthless Lives
The Ghetto
The Starvation
The Hopelessness
The Innocent Faces
Of Babies and Children
In Gaza, today.
Mister Bump 
Hell, my friend, among our own homeless today.
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It is indeed hell. That’s another inequality we need to fight, no matter where.
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Thank you.
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Absolutely, Pete.
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It’s got to be said, Misk.
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😢💔
Meaningful write, Pete.
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Hi Michelle, it terms of poetry, it’s crap. But these things have to be said – we have to show our disgust.
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When you break from limerick form, Bumper, you show us a serious side declaring compassionate depth beyond clever poetic humor. Well written.
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Cheers, Espie. I think there is very little good poetry, that’s why I usually avoid it. This one at least touches a nerve.
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A hard hitting poem Pete! It was excellent! X
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Thanks Shirley. As poetry goes, it’s a bag of shite, but as far as it being something that makes me seethe…
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I wouldn’t say it’s a bag of 💩 I thought it was very touching!
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Yeah but you live on a continent starved of culture 🤣 Shirley’s in Cork.
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We should never forget nor let others forget. A very powerful poem Pete
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It was reading your response to this that prompted me to write.
It’s a sad fact that the only way we can each show our disgust is financially, but nevertheless it was by financial pressure that South Africa finally caved.
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Thanks Pete for doing that too. We are boycotting all the companies that are supporting this genocide by funding it. Economic pressure can also yield results
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Well said Pete, thanks for speaking up.
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Good to know there are many of us think this way
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🖤🖤
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We wondered how previous generations could have let atrocities happen, now it is us who can’t stop genocide.
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It just get’s you depressed, doesn’t it? We see these things happening and feel so impotent. Not just Israel, but going back…
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Very poignant. Also thinking of Grenfell Tower this week 😕
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Yeah, no mater what things we manage to put right, there is always work left to do.
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It’s sad
You piece captures the situation perfectly well❤️
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Thank you. I read it and find an incredibly angry poem. But it is a situation which makes me incredibly angry.
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