The Daily Poetry Movement

TOM KELLY (England)
TOGETHER

A father tells of his missing daughter
with moving dignity,
holding back raw emotion
and I cry his tears
and she is my daughter
and he is my father
and we are together
in our tragedy.



NEWCASTLE EVENING CHRONICLE/UNICEF
ASIA EARTHQUAKE CHILDREN'S
EMERGENCY APPEAL,
FREEPOST, BILLERICAY, CM12 OBR

MAKE CHEQUE PAYABLE TO UNICEF.


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Poetry site for Tsunami disaster relief

 http://website.lineone.net/~johnmingay/tsunami.htm

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It was global warming. This was predicted 10 years ago. Just nod your head and blame it on an earthquake that has nothing to do with SUV's. You can't prove it they say. Sure. Nod your head. 10%. 5%. 3%. Gradients. Degrees. How many, proffessor, how many degrees? Do you need... Disaster relief... nope can't say we planned for this, just created it...

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PS God loves a good beer and a grizzly bear!

PSS-ERS! Fuck the maoists! They are beating up people for getting drunk at new years parties! The maoists suck and the communist and socialist parties that support them are evil ideologues! The maoists suck even more for being greedy feces swarmers who adopt our speech to win our support!

I spoke to these communists about it, you know the ones slavering over two dollar newpapers. They told me, "don't worry about child abductions, or villagers beating villagers in once peaceful buddhist villages, thats war, and we are fighting communism!" I said, the village was already communalistic, nutrag! He looked at me like he wished I was in that maoist village talking back to him, and he could give me a taste of war. Like striking me for his ideology was a lipsmacker.

I didn't call him nutrag. But I wished I had. I don't like war. There are other solutions for Nepal. Nepal has pretty cool rules. Like foreigns can't buy up the himalayas and turn it in to McDonalds. The maoists will change that. They talk out of one side of their mouth and act on the other. See war in small villages has a different face than the war in the press...