Excerpts from the “poem”:
“No immentent threat.”
“Metaphors to evoke response or shade context.”
“10 years of planning and policy thrown away”
“…not a tactical error, a strategic and policy error.”
(Hat tip to C&L for the video)
Archive for April 2nd, 2006
A Poem in and of Itself
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TO THOSE STILL HELD
Posted in christian, iraq, kidnapped, protest poetry on April 2, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Now breathless and unconstrainedShe warbled odes for her captorsAnd then like razors slipped forthOf a world she had been detainedTaken `way from her restful peaceAnd living’s translation shot deadIn an arid land discharged in warDignity stuffed in scarf’s bent head…
Now humanity free of its confinementOpen of nodding treacherous tortureDeath in their breath she expressesOf her [...]
TO THOSE STILL HELD
Posted in TO THOSE STILL HELD, christian, iraq, kidnapped, protest poetry on April 2, 2006 | 2 Comments »
Now breathless and unconstrainedShe warbled odes for her captorsAnd then like razors slipped forthOf a world she had been detainedTaken `way from her restful peaceAnd living’s translation shot deadIn an arid land discharged in warDignity stuffed in scarf’s bent head…
Now humanity free of its confinementOpen of nodding treacherous tortureDeath in their breath she expressesOf her [...]
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