POET : Collins lnnocent Munyanda
Country : Zimbabwe.
– after Hamas ‘ October 7 lsrael invasion , Gaza flamed –
Explosive, covert militants incursion!
Sudden gory moaning! Wretched howling!
Ooh, festal slumber lsrael!
Confounded Kfar Azzar,
bewildered Sderot,
nonplussed Kibbutz Be’eri,
scream inertly,
atrocitized, bullied, carnaged, massacred!
Hissing retaliatory annihilation missiles,
roaring sky rockets trade salvo antagonism.
Ear splitting blasts!
Pulsating hearts drip crimson sanguine.
Eviscerated lily-livered green flesh
litter scorched blood thirsty orient streets.
Piercing death screams reverberate!
Al-shati and Jabalia refugee camps smoulder.
Beit Hanouh tumble into
concrete rubble jungle.
Ice cream vans metamorphose into mobile rancid morturies.
Thousands shrapnel bodies slump down murmuring mass graves.
Hostages cramp, suffocated, effeted,
underground dark dusty tunnels.
Anger, disgruntlement, racism, punity!
Combat muzzles blitz, faded hopes splint.
Nutrition stealthes away like
clandestine midnight conmen.
Nights and days conspirate murder.
Intimidation, terror, tears, manipulation!
Crusty old bellicose men
Fan hegemonic war fire tongues
beyond uncircumsized contention walls.
Below ground,
Gaza surreptitious command centers buzz furtively,
as war plunder and profits fornicate.
Hewn and sewn territories
rupture, belly-ached.
Political vultures sip disputatious bloody chalices.
None recall solemn dirges,
as was truculent in Joshua and Caleb’s obtrude days.
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