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Thursday, March 20, 2025

Caught Within the Wicked Spell of Death

 

Caught Within the Wicked Spell of Death

The mourning bell, often chimed, to unforeseen grief, in sorrow sung,

Set in sallow tones, cast upon each face, to the sound of sadness rung.

Blinding tears flooding, rent from overcast eyes to eternal pain cleft,

Struck with distress, numbing torment, solemn hearts set in ruins heft.

Heads bowed, in somber prayer, reflecting on each soul, sadly raised,

Arms outstretched, in reverence of the life lived, lost images engraved.

Within each mind, whose souls have been beset, with such tragic news,

Left to reason, why tragedy has struck, their thoughts totally confused.

Eyes set, where the hands of time ceased, within a heartbeat, stopped,

With wretched sounds, still echoing inside, from the missiles dropped.

Within the deafening roar, brought in resonance, off hatreds applause,

Suffering in genocide, the thunderous claps, bringing the worst of wars.

Within the promised land, each life hanging, like pendulums a swinging,

Marking time, all counting down, with shellshocked ears loudly ringing.

Each person waiting, the lethal hammer blow, the final moment marked,

To spend eternity, the rest of time, in a plot, where they shall be parked.

The open caskets, imprinted on the eyes, of the world, difficult to forget,

The widows, dressed in black, faces drowning, in streams of tears wept.

Each awful image seen, around the world, a solemn view of souls, in grief,

By the sickness, manifested in soulless beings, in madness, beyond belief.

The foreign force, that constantly breaks treaties, malcontent their curse,

So much love lost, the miserable debt, a terrible way to part, so perverse.

Each attempt, to embrace the souls, of the dearly departed, done in vain,

All heroes, who have given, paying the ultimate price, soldiers of Ukraine.

Now as time never stands still, marching on, they will never be forgotten,

As their dearly loved gouge at the pain, in their hearts, feeling so rotten.

With the haunting sights, of innocent children, flashing before their eyes,

In lives so short lived, the disconnected sound of laughter, now disguised.

Each happy memory wrenched, along with aspirations, and paternal love,

In profound sadness, the poor souls spirited away, by the mourning dove.

So many bonds broken, while the world stands by, its reason halfcocked,

With unwitting minds, blinded from the reality of war, the truth blocked.

The grieving victims, with no sign of resolution, in sight, biding their time,

As more precious lives are lost, while the warlords, commit their crimes.

Written By: Alan.Clark@WW1POET (March 2025)







 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


 

 

 

 

 


String Puppets

 

String Puppets

With threads attached, they cannot stand, on two feet, without their string,

Their ghastly master, twisting and pulling, making them all dance, and sing.

To his evil tune, with every foul stroke, tugging and jerking, in total control,

The king of obedient puppet’s, each an empty slave, without heart, or soul.

No brain, to comprehend the function, of their mindless mechanical show,

As they strut about the stage, performing each tedious charade, to and fro.

Singing badly attuned, clumsily stepping, in his construct, the fantasy world,

Of make-believe, and the feckless illusions, he generates, so roughly knurled.

His hinged sticks, dressed in loud ties, and gaudy rags, all ranting and raving,

A load of nonsense, with their clumsy arms, gesticulating, and wildly waving.

The puppets ruddy faces, coarse brushstrokes, roughly painted, mind chilling,

The puppeteer performing his art, the loathsome lies, that they keep swilling.

The Muppet master, keeping the plot, close at hand, his pawns constrained,

Each puppet closely bound, unable to break free, their will, securely chained.

His show, set to unhinge the spectators, planting seeds of chaos, that spread,

Laying foundations, of perpetual anarchy, in each ignorant recipient’s head.

Within the madness, his shows poorly scripted, loads of tripe, flowing forth,

With the mindless puppets, becoming confused, tangled in the pile of swarth.

Bent over his puppets, his back badly hunched, snout becoming hook nosed,

The piercing tones, in strained timbre of voice, loudly resonating, eyes closed.

The felonious intent, deviously choreographed, roughly plucking each string,

With his popup stages, peddling lies on street corners, for the wannabe King.

His henchmen, like prostitute pimps, a manifestation, of their horrid master,

Heralding a new age, of billionaire control, leaving civilization set in disaster.

Written By: Alan.Clark@WW1POET (March 2025)




The Useful Idiot

 

The Useful Idiot

Today Russia applauds, giving the useful idiot in Capital Hill, a standing ovation,

He has sunk, to new levels, now the witless savior, of their treacherous nation.

Such that, freedom will one day, become enslaved, flattened, and steamrolled,

The precedent of brutal conquest has now been endorsed, in tyranny extolled.

As loyal allies are brushed aside, breaking UN mandates, of humanitarian law,

His shallow thought, focused on greed, rather than people’s lives, enduring war.

The imbecile taking the short route, his quick fix idiocy, in utter madness made,

The shallow thought, sending shock waves, in his insanity, new foundations laid.

For tyranny, has been given a green light, the license to take land, by brute force,

Leaving the free world, facing a new era, the dawn of chaos, and perpetual wars.

As Putin goes unpunished, for his pointless wars, and all the genocide committed,

And Chump and co, break promises made, with rapists, and the rioters acquitted.

The streets no longer safe, as Gotham spreads, around the world, to siren sounds,

With the people retreating, into locked concrete forts, with razor wire surrounds.

America locked in a trance, standing, watching, too frightened to fight back, resist,

Discharge the domestic enemies of the state, the proud boy traitors in their midst.

The ring leaders, posing as politicians, making false pledges, and outright benders,

The corrupt cult, dancing to another tune, enchanted by another nation’s agendas.

The jolt, has awoken the allies, now stand strong, there will be a massive backlash,

Contracts will be cancelled, US trade will go down, until America ejects the trash.

Written By: Alan.Clark@WW1POET (March 2025)




In Liberty Lost

 

In Liberty Lost

Alas, in the land of The Star-Spangled Banner, once brave now from freedom lost,

With the halfwit President, set at the helm, the nation beginning to pay the cost.

The bright stars, have lost their sparkle, and the broad stripes, are going narrow,

Liberty bell sits idle, the first light of dawn cut short, as Trump pushes his barrow.

The old president, an axe to grind, his brain broken, mind ridden with confusion,

His loyal followers transfixed, caught in a dismal trance, under a strange illusion.

In the past, he would have been committed, as a nutcase, with his faulty mind!

His thieving band are wreaking havoc, with the executive orders, he has signed.

In the city streets, the star-spangled banners, are with placards waved, in protest,

Faithful servants are getting fired, left, right and centre, the people really stressed.

They are anxious about what insane acts, are coming next, his mind so deranged,

He cannot recite the national anthem, so he is going to get all the words changed.

To blah, blah, blah! In hollow lines, like all the trivial words, used in his speeches,

The nonsense, and denigrations, with all the insipidus platitudes, that he preaches.

While he takes the country down, the road to ruin, he lives on a different planet,

His mind is fixed, on great wealth, beyond measure, his thick skull full of granite.

In silence his party firmly set, as the gap gets wider, prepared to sit on the shelf,

As he vents mindless tirades, and mistruths, many say that he speaks for himself.

For sure, he continues to sully, the reputation of America, and what it stands for,

As he blindly sides, with Putin’s evil regime, of terrorists, justifying Russia’s war.

We wonder what power, Putin holds over Trump, what muck Putin has, to rake,

As Trump continues, to break all his election promises, he is nothing but a fake.

Someday, his bubble of babble will burst, where he exists, ending the evil pact,

And America will be left, to pick up the broken pieces, all battered and cracked.

To mend the terrible rift created, the alliances denigrated, the dollar in tatters,

Rebuild the crestfallen world, where the freedom of innocent people matters.

In the iterum, his tenure fraught, Trump still gratified, to play his petty game,

Plunging the Western world into crisis, we think, that chaos is his middle name.

Written By: Alan.Clark@WW1POET (February 2025)




On Victory Day

 

On Victory Day

The bandura plays in ancient tones, its strings skilfully plucked, in such sadness strung,

Wretched songs played, the soul-destroying tunes, the heart of a nation, gravely rung.

The Rusky Rashist cloud, raided from the east, the curse of a nation, in darkness dealt,

Ukrainian names forever thought, written in blood, brave soldiers, on battle fields spelt.

One day, the tune will change, as the everlasting tide, and wind, herald a new world,

The Kozakiv will have, their glorious victory day, the weight of their nation unfurled.

Each day the Kozaks will dance with joy, and all sing, upon the demon’s graves.

Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava! Peremoha Ukrayini! Orky! Orky! - Orky! Orky! Hey!

With the Orky mothers, and their wives, left behind to lament, and rue each day.

They bravely fought, to free the world of Orcs, and all the evil Rashist handlers too,

To exterminate, the invading forces, from the sacred fields of sunflowers, and feverfew.

Defending their right of freedom, all the Ukrainian people, and their culture, full on,

Taking back, what is rightfully theirs, fighting on, until the day, all the Orcs were gone.

Pushing back, the brutal Orcs, who plundered, raped, and murdered, all the little kiddies,

Laying waste, to the homeland, and all the homes, in all the towns, and the grand cities.

Each day the Kozaks will dance with joy, and all sing, upon the demon’s graves.

Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava! Peremoha Ukrayini! Orky! Orky! - Orky! Orky! Hey!

With the Orky mothers, and their wives, left behind to lament, and rue each day.

The hopak carrying on, and on, day and night, picking up the pace, all hear the shrill

As Ukrainian soldiers, pack down the ground, each refrain getting faster, and faster still,

Spilling their Vodka, on evil Putin, and his deplorable Orcs, slowly rotting, six feet down,

Driven back to the swamps, from whence they came, suffocating, in the boggy ground.

The dirty stinking bastards, their rancid reeking carcases, the wicked bands, of beasts,

Down in the underworld, with the rats, and scavengers, banding together, in the feast.

Each day the Kozaks will dance with joy, and all sing, upon the demon’s graves.

Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava! Peremoha Ukrayini! Orky! Orky! - Orky! Orky! Hey!

With the Orky mothers, and their wives, left behind to lament, and rue each day.

Written By: Alan.Clark@WW1POET (January 2025)






Wednesday, March 19, 2025

The Eternal Sons and Daughters

 

The Eternal Sons and Daughters

Within their souls, where time stood still, in grief, bravely holding, back the tears,

There is the spring, the fount of sadness, now forever found, for many, many years.

That silent place, where pain will rage, caught within, the love and loss they hide,

The battle ground, where they would love, to set all their sorrow free, upon the tide.

From their broken hearts, where so much anguish now persists, at times unchecked,

In the sea of sadness, broken on jagged rocks, a significant part of them, wrecked.

Haunted by an invisible scar, that only they can sense, and see, an eternal strain,

Never ending, brought down in battle each day, as they wish away, the awful pain.

Floundering in cold comfort, heartache, the cruel world brings, with no forgetting,

For one that they miss, the restless soul forever lost, its precious life, never setting.

The mother’s grief, we cannot imagine, for the beloved part of her, that she has lost,

A father, who has lost his child, left wrestling with empty dreams, an awful cost.

The sibling, with its childhood memories, bound by the familial bond, now denied,

The family wrenched, in fate distraught, with emptiness, in broken hearts deprived.

Bound together, as they try to mend brokenness, with time marching on, ahead,

Past each evocative moment, through tearful phases, the jagged rocks, they dread.

Another birthday, another Christmas, those very special moments, never forgotten,

That evoke the pain inside, raging yet again, arousing mixed emotions, feeling rotten.

Yearning, the nightmare departed, the past in destiny different, all the pain resolved,

Freedom from wrestling with all the pain, the unpleasant weight of grief dissolved.

Once grief has placed its grip, on each stricken soul, there is no escape, nor respite,

With relentless precision, cutting deep, any time of day, stalking in the dark of night.

As they alleviate the pain, content to think, that the lost have gone, to a better place,

Away from the realm of agony, all bruised and battered, where their life was erased.

It is better than dwelling in haunted places, within stricken minds, of sadness bound,

To a place in their minds, a peaceful sanctuary, where the fond memories are found.

Written By: Alan.Clark@WW1POET (Oct 2024)




The Matrix of Mindless Orcs and Spies

 

The Matrix of Mindless Orcs and Spies

Within the convoluted Matrix, there stand, destinies doors, forever closed,

Through them, only the chosen ones, the privileged few, may come and go.

Locked within the Matrix, exists the other breeds, deprived, and disavowed,

All the exits locked fast, freedom strictly forbidden, progression disallowed.

Lost in the place, of distant dreams, ranked well below, the exclusive few,

Living in a penal world, branded bottom feeders, in the disenchanted brew.

Poor scouring the maze, of corridors, of time, in futile search, of an escape,

To discover a much-needed chance, struggling, and toiling, while they wait.

But the gatekeeper, remains rigid, forever vigilant, denying hope, in time,

As they languish, within the chaos created, by the ignorance, of mankind.

 

Caught in the dictate, of evil power, of grab and take, tyranny indisputable,

Lives traded, within the sacrificial slaughter, insignificant, fully expendable.

The Matrix knows, lust, envy, and sloth, are the greatest weaknesses of all,

Designed to rule, over the misshapen masses, burdens set, to make them fall.

It controls destiny, placing hurdles in the way, the parasite sucking them dry,

Locked in prison, within each tiny cell, inside every mind, blinding visions eye.

Poisoning, and corrupting, the purest of thought, contaminating simple minds,

By decree, absolute control over lives short lived, and death met in jagged lines.

Undisputable power, culling challenging thought, and any oppositional stance,

Minds being subliminally altered, and despondency, setting them in a trance.

 

Each morning, back at the beginning, the rut getting deeper, nothing new,

Fixed in whimsical thought, earnestly wanting their dreams, to come true.

Eyes locked, gazing through wishing windows, with bizarre visions embraced,

At the end of each day, their dreams erased, their enthusiasm gone to waste.

The fanciful dreamers, shall never see, the light of day, all blinded by the sun,

Each tedious step forward, by two steps back, mindful tranquility, never won.

Time dragging, in endless repetition, each wave of darkness, eradicating hope,

The walls of despondency closing in, hordes of lives, strangled by Satan’s rope.

Impoverished within denial, a dreadful drought, of fortune, and destiny missed,

Knowing the anguish, of loss, and pain, all too well, and every tortuous twist.

 

Honesty, all in vain, the ever-repeating cycle, stealing each opportunity, away,

As compassion, and humanity, hold no rank, and goodness, continues to stray.

Each wondering what, destiny has planned, what lies install, around each bend,

Fruitlessly searching, as time is devoured, precious lives lost, before the very end.

Some looking to God, in hope of salvation, their prayers set in trust, and love,

Scouring their souls, though the answers seldom come, from the almighty above.

Meditation and prayer, rekindling hope, probing to see, if they are in God’s plan,

Keeping the score, in their checkered lives, restively awaiting the promised land.

The leading question, so difficult to comprehend, when abject poverty is so real,

Is God, truthfully out there, watching over them? Or a universe as cold as steel!

 

They search in vain, and the Matrix stands fast, uncertainty round each bend,

Endless repetition wearing them down, resigned to failure, anguish without end.

For freedom lost, in unjust penance, in lives forced to live, by burden weighed,

With the painful debt, the way they were born, lives of wretchedness, cruelly paid.

Living in fear, and uncertainty, under the misshapen rage of tyranny, is the cost,

Becoming the burden, in restless souls, creating malevolent spirits, that are lost.

Compelled to silence, and submit, worn down through fear, and cruel intimidation,

Conceding to the evil power, forced submission, creating an inert Androidian nation.

Lives strictly censored, kept under incessant surveillance, through the looking-glass,

Born into poverty, by the will of the matrix caste, never to rise, above their class.

 

Young souls enticed out of the web, slashing the journey short, cutting life concise,

An early escape, an expendable asset of the matrix, forced to fight, to pay the price.

And if they are unwilling to fight, and die, made an example, beaten, and abused,

Then brutalized, and sodomised, and executed point blank, when they still refuse.

Every bloody battle, bringing the gutless stain of genocide, fought to the very last

Destroying any aspirations, the poor souls hold, to the future unseen, and the past

Wave upon wave, the mental madness binding, never ending, fed with discontent,

Lives purged; fresh cannon fodder created, from the cruelty of perpetual torment.

The spoils of war, leaving its broken ruins, where majestic civilizations once stood,

Precious artifacts trashed, the malevolent force, deliberately destroying all good.

 

Turning lives to dust, and dreams of fantasia sought, into glorious illusions strayed,

In denial fabricating a parallel world, beyond the grip of death, by grief assuaged.

To blindness turned, by anger driven, to the bitter taste of revenge, sorely sought,

Then in guilt, struggling to defer the inevitable, making silent promises for naught.

Through confusion, the smog of depression setting in, in griefs unforgiving pain,

As hurt and anguish are resolved, with acceptance, the weight of grief, lifted again.

What will rise from the ashes, be borne upon the wind, in the desolate state of dust,

For countless generations to come, left to harbor the awful thoughts, of mistrust.

Where the lost spirits, restlessly search, for a place to haunt, perhaps a new host,

Where all hope of freedoms speech is hushed, and paradise is haunted by its ghost.

 

The endless trek, inside matrix walls, impregnable ramparts, impossible to climb,

Plodding into uncertainty, desperately holding on, till each mourning bell chimes.

Does a place exist, beyond the Matrix, where weight of time, does not matter,

A place of paradise, where freedoms spirit reigns, within all who humbly enter?

If by providence, they find an unlocked door, leading from the tortuous condition,

A way out of the nasty web, that holds fast, a pathway to escape the dreary prison.

If all the walls, and all the doors, ceased to exist, bestowing a harmonious space,

Transforming the nightmare, to an enchanted kingdom, ending the traumatic race.

No more clutching at threads, at the mercy of the fortunate few, who look down,

Past the syndrome of hopelessness, where so many broken souls, have drowned.

 

As the pagans unlock, the forbidden doors, to spirit worlds, where malice hides,

Only to find no exit, from eternal torment, trapped where ghostly beasts abide.

The wayward souls, like empty shells, placing trust in luck, and in accidents,

Mindsets foreign to faith, content to live, day by day, where fantasy ferments.

Bound by temptation, lured into the chasm of lawlessness, extortion, and rage,

Turning water to mud, blacken to ash, dreams to dust! In the wars they wage.

Some grabbing short-lived bursts, a feeling of paradise, in hopeless addiction,

Taste of sugar, drugs, alcohol, and smoke, emptiness, pleasuring their affliction.

Committing awful crimes, fueled by drunken stupor, then thrown into the can,

The mindless misfits, Orcs bred in abject hell, brutal beasts rendered from man.

 

The Matrix content, to expand even more, as it tightens its grip, on each nation,

Brainwashing people, altering minds, wicked politics, of trans-functional oblation.

One race, one culture, one spoken language, one way stipulated, to rule them all,

Content to manipulate, and dominate, to construct more matrix doors, and walls.

Vile sickness set, to rule the world, the matrix hellbent, on augmenting its disease,

Invading other nations, annexing each state, bringing other cultures to their knees.

As it spreads its raft of lies, all founded on mistruths, the people kept in ignorance,

Casting the seeds of freedom, into the ruddy fields of war, without a second chance.

Rendering whimsical illusions, that hide the darkness, of its web of lies, and deceit,

Spreading Satan’s blight, his abysmal Trade mark, resolutely creating cannon meat.

 

Each population placed under siege, by artillery guns, rockets, and bombshells,

Cities collapsing, into craters carved in earth, as the ground heaves, and swells.

Panic brought to peaceful streets, sirens loudly screaming, the sound of thunder,

As the Devils generals free more Orcs, from prison cells, to rape and plunder.

Civilians caught up, in waves of terror, unlikely to survive the needless torture,

Innocent children, and little infants, bearing witness, to the ruthless slaughter,

Maternity hospitals targeted, taking the brunt of force, in mindless infanticide,

Civilians being rounded up, bound, shot in the backs, in acts of pointless genocide.

The world left wondering, what madness would bring, this insanity to flashpoint,

Political division, set inside a large nation; an authoritarian regime, so disjoint.

 

The stark contrast, the aftermath, heralding the unpleasant stamp of change,

As each place is purged and bleached, any hint of different gone, rearranged.

Darkness brought, to every place destroyed, all beautiful things stripped bare,

An increasing network of corridors, implanting unspeakable misery everywhere.

All nations forged the same, imposed by the matrix supreme, in power absolute,

The face of fascism, so unkind, its slaves matter not, hope in freedom destitute.

The self-appointed saint, angering God, by wrath of death, and griefs ugly brand,

Stealing lives, freedoms rights, the paths to paradise, all the souls he hath damned.

The cult of darkness ever growing, as it divides and conquers, all diversity known,

Expanding its wicked empire, out of the hatred, that it has broadcast, and grown.

 

In the celestial stars above, perhaps the greatest miracle of all, to man, life on earth,

Perhaps by chance, or the divine destiny, of a majestic force in the mighty universe.

Mankind, left thinking in awe, questioning the inconceivable, often times spellbound,

Does life exist, beyond earths stratosphere, amongst the radiant stars that abound?

How far does life extend, out into infinity, beyond planet earth, the motherland,

Does something exist, beyond the grave, in the spirit world, we do not understand?

Does paradise exist? Are virgins really waiting? And any other constructed delusions!

In blissful ignorance, followers left to theorize, an array of philosophical conclusions.

Blindly proceeding, as mankind destroys goodness on earth, in mindless competition,

Ignorant to paradise, in nature bestowed, that man desecrates, into an ugly rendition.

 

Still, the gatekeeper does not loosen his grip, his network of spies, subvert in league,

As the lower class suffers, within the chaos created, subjected to his dreadful deeds

Driving the world underground, to be ruled by the extremity of madness, and insanity,

Preying on any weakness, creating fear in each mind, exploiting innocence and vanity.

While the gullible fervently believe, all they have been told, caught in the web fast,

Fighting under banners of death, for fantasies created, by fanatics, in false forecast.

As the Prophets conjure up paradise, their followers hardwired to explosives sacrifice,

Content to die as martyrs, placing faith in misconceptions, in an alternate paradise.

Each day confined to the cold corridors, null and void, its unwelcome empty spaces,

Caught in a lock, ignorance breeding more poverty, that the Matrix piously abases.

 

With the pure act of love, and being loved, running dry, extinct within the dreary void,

Suppressed emotions, overwhelming wrath, heavy hearts weary, compassion destroyed.

Remembrance the burden, laid upon hearts, in the sacrifice of war, of freedoms price,

Grief, the overwhelming weight, brought by bitter memories, of the pointless sacrifice.

Little consolation found, where is goodness drowned, in those who profit from the loss,

Stolen from paradise, with the grand illusions of mortal sacrifice, life a selfless cost.

Content to breed, abject poverty, mindless demolition, in all the God forsaken places,

Poor peasants, desperately forging iron in foundries, and chipping away at coalfaces.

Kids slaving in dirty factories, packing munitions and rockets, mechanically enslaved,

Living in the psychophysical vacuum, sad expressionless faces, despondent eyes glazed.

 

While outside the matrix, unparalleled wealth exists, for the chosen ones, in privilege found,

Above the sullen clouds of poverty, and discontent, where unparalleled opulence abounds.

Beyond the dust and dirt, the soot and smoke, grunge and grime, the wretched destitute,

The squalid slums, and rundown shantytowns, loathsome prisons, and places of ill repute.

In paradise bought on the backs of the poor, in blood, and sweat, the lowly mortals tamed,

The predators, the scavengers, and the bottom feeders, the other races sullied and shamed.

Large mansions of marble slabs, with gilded filagree, and elaborate frescos on ceilings tall,

Majestic entrances, leading to double staircases, crystal chandeliers hanging in grand halls.

Great chambers fit for royalty, elaborate furnishings, in elegant living rooms, painted gold,

Such wealth, affluence, entitlement, and aristocratic privilege, a sickening sight to behold.

 

Obsessive and compulsive, gluttony and greed, the gate keeper holds the key to all the doors,

Fenced behind the razor wire, protected by his partners in crime, planning conflict and wars.

His loyal henchmen, and coconspirators, carrying out his commands, all affiliates to the pact,

The horrendous crimes they commit, the innocent lives, and families, that they have wracked.

The heartless beasts, that spread the lies, the fearsome force, that preys upon the vulnerable,

In cold-blooded acts, pleasured by their psychopathic deeds, their brutality inconceivable.

The gate keeper turning his evil eye, to his vile genocide, his narrative, and actions evasive,

Brainwashing his followers, his genetic cesspool, his sadistic tortuous methods very persuasive.

How in heavens name, does God allow this insanity to happen, the victims question, “Why?”

The ungodly acts, executed against humanity, the matrix destroying paradise, in their minds.

Written By: Alan.Clark@WW1POET (August 2024)




Les enfants de Palestine

  Les enfants de Palestine Children born in the shadow, of broken brotherhood, in madness caught, The neglect found, in a crumbling stat...