The Children of Gaza
(Invasion of Gaza, January 2009)
The dead and wounded children of Gaza
Are carried out in arms of bleeding fathers
And terrified mothers, dressed from ankle to head in black,
The color of mourning, the color of death, the color
Of our hope, once green and fresh as April shoots,
Now black as burned flesh, burned by phosphorous bombs
On human skin. The homes, the shops, the mosques
Are rubble. Our future is rubble, the children
Of Gaza are wrapped in bloody sheets,
Our hope buried in shallow rubble graves.
Robert M. Coughlin
January 27, 2009
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Regatta off Mentor Lagoons, Lake Erie
This blog is based in Northeast Ohio, what was "La Nation du Chat," the Cat Nation, as the French-Canadian furtraders called the Land of the Erie Indians. The blog will touch on many issues: nature, the environment, literature, poetry, society, and politics. Around here we think of the Lake Erie shoreline as the North Coast of the United States--a Frontier in the midst of the Rust Belt.
Sunset on Lake Erie
Regatta off Mentor Lagoons, Lake Erie
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January
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- How Do You Pronounce "Cuyahoga"?
- Skiing in Austria (Part 2)
- Jimmy Coughlin Out of Prison!
- The Children of Gaza
- Skiing in Austria (Part 1)
- Coughlin Stock Market Advice
- Alice Walker's Letter to Barack Obama
- The Closing of Barack Obama's Inaugural Address
- "The Torch Has Been Passed . . . ."
- Skiing from Hafelekar Peak in Innsbruck, Austria
- Another Winter Poem: "The Great Silence"
- Amazing Lake Erie Webcam
- Winter Rules Here!
- Farewell to the Christmas Season; Baptism of Carolan
- Poem Inspired by "Honey from Stone"
- Making Music (Part 1)
- Chet Raymo and "Science Musings"
- Fitzpatrick Family Party
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About Me
- View from the North Coast
- I am a teacher of English and poetry as well as an intermediate learner of Irish, active in the Irish Language study group at the East Side Irish-American Club in Euclid, Ohio.