List members may be interested to read through the heartfelt poetic
responses posted on "Ramallah Online".
http://www.ramallahonline.com/modules.php?name=News&file=categories&op=n
ewindex&catid=11
"Lady Jihad" is particularly moving for the accompanying image.
This is an example:
October 6, 1973.
The crossing. The flag.
Today it means: remembering the past
(Solidarity, patriotism and unbending pride)
And to speak of today means: to dream
To write poems under a table
In a cellar,
Where weakness holds our walls together
And words speak louder than deeds,
Where mortars explode over our heads
And Palestine is raped by our cowardly fears
We need to remember?
How to live? that we're not dogs
Surviving on their masters' rewards?
To stand up for our rights:
The Farms, The Heights? *
And blow up all bars
Our sense we enslave behind?
Sinai was freed
And the blood of Martyrs
Tonight perfumes my heart
My mind,
It's hard not to write poems
Not to hide in the arms of memory,
Hard not to reminisce about the past
When the present celebrates the death of dignity.
Lillie
October 6, 2001
Commemorating October 6, 1973
* Golan Heights & Shebaa Farms
That people who endure such suffering still find some consolation in the
expression that poetry allows, makes me think carefully about my own
motivation for writing.
Maria Fletcher
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