In
24 Hours
I.
Bring Back Our Girls
On this April day,
Nigerian girls were brought back.
Two hundred rescued
from a Boko Harem bush-prison,
where iron-fisted men
are trying to turn time back.
Demoted to property,
equated with cows and goats,
our Nigerian daughters were herded
in pens,
to be bartered for.
FAITH is what our girls held onto
when another armed posse came,
declaring themselves to be their
saviors.
A choice between two hells,
our girls must have thought
when told by armed men
they were fated to be free.
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| Taken from ABC news.com |
II.
Falling Mountains
The sky in Katmandu is a gray
choking cloud.
It’s earth has trembled, crumbled
and now greedily swallows its
children.
Mountains are angry, hungry dragons
woken from a deep sleep.
They roar in their trampling
rampage.
The smell of death
rises from the rubble
of unplanned graves.
How many lives will be sacrificed
before Agni is appeased.
*Agni, Hindu god of Fire
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| New York Times.com |
Boiling
Point
Another American city
tells the tale of two worlds,
laws shaded by
class and ethnicity.
Darker brothers nurse broken bones,
count their bullet-pierced
and tasered dead.
Spirits are wounded.
Anger is a riotous roar.
The fire is upon us.
How soon will it be put out?
How soon before the next one flares?
*taser- a weapon firing barbs attached by
wires to batteries, causing temporary paralysis.
* verb verb: taser; 3rd
person present: tasers;
gerund or present participle: tasering;
past tense: tasered; past
participle: tasered;
verb: tase; 3rd person
present: tases; gerund or
present participle: tasing;
past tense: tased; past
participle: tased
*fire a taser at (someone) in order to
incapacitate them temporarily.
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| Belfasttelegraph.co.uk |
Lives
in Shards
(for those oppressed by man and
nature)
We wake to daily news of those
whose worlds are broken clay pots.
How to mend them, make them whole?
We cover wounds with plasters
of kind words and short lived
charity.
The strong-willed hide scars
under self-determination.
The fragile are handled with care.
Weak seams of threadbare living
easily fray.
.
Their wrath writes headlines in our
media.
Experts offer formulated
explanations.
We live in unease, wonder when our
tidy existence will become scattered
shards.
© Althea Romeo-Mark 2015
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| Photo taken at Kenya's Museum of Natural History 2014, Althea Romeo-Mark |
Nigeria army rescues nearly 300 females from Boko Haram ...
www.aljazeera.com/.../nigerian-army-rescues-200-girls-boko-haram-cam...
Apr 29, 2015 
Great that you are feeling the plight of the world in these lovely lines. Thanks from Liberia
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