Game Played By The Politics
Two kids were always friends
despite the fact of the ethnic tense.
On the shore they collect shells,
and play ‘hide and seek’.
They wished for peace.
Today, they are adults,
who escaped the bombs,
the horror. They carry
in their hearts
the tears of their moms
and their father’s pain.
Today, they are adults,
having their place to live
with two beautiful daughter and son.
They are adults, still wishing for peace.
Yes, the war is a big game
played by the politics, not by kids.
Hearts Without Borders
(to my two medical students)
Today, they are two doctors
in ‘Doctors Without Borders’.
He is a Muslim; she is a Jew by faith.
They work shoulder to shoulder
in a surgical team, fighting death.
In the evening,
after all horror that they face all day,
both still have the moment
to kiss in the emergency tent,
having dinner and to entertain.
Souk On Gaza Stripe
(real experience)
Silence. Two days of peace.
No shooting, no detonations, no bombs.
On the two sides of the road,
are parked cars with open trunks.
They wait for customers to come.
Some show off their bullet holes
on both sides and star-cracked windows.
Everything goes on sale.
Everything has price, as it said.
Half bottle of whisky and open cigarette stack
are placed next to cadies and chocolate bars.
Next to the Muslim hijabs and veils,
are hand weaved kippahs
hanging up on a laundry pins.
On checkered clothes, jewelries of gold
and glass beads in bowls
are set next to weapons of all kind.
German helmets from World Wars,
hand grenades and modern guns
lay next to children’s toys. Trunks
stay opened, inviting to make a choice.
Salers’ smiles. Nobody mentions the war.
And... the bomb drops just 20 meters away,
planting new deaths in the sand.
In two minutes, the souk just moves back
to another safer spot. “It is normal”, one says.
“Just grab your money and go
until you are still alive”,
a teenage with gun gives me advise.
Tonight, on TV (here it goes!)
the following news report skips this spot.
It highlights a bunch of conference meetings
“Life is back to normal”, says the anchor.
“Yes, it seems, but what is normal?”
I ask the TV screen
before switching off its last beam.
Curse Or Blessing
(to kids of Palestine)
Is this a curse or a blessing
to be born a boy on this land?
Is this a curse or a blessing
to be born a girl on this land?
- On a land with endless war.
He plays with his friend among the ruins,
both having time to smile and run
barefooted after a hand-made ball.
Does it matter that he’s Muslim,
and the other is Jew? They both pray
their fathers to come home.
She is a Jewish girl,
sharing a hand-made doll
with a Muslim one; both singing
a lullaby song. They pray
their mothers will have
something cooked on the stove.
Childhood is just once. Kids are born
will love in their hearts.
Don’t teach them how to pray for peace;
they already know. Indeed,
the adults break them a part
teaching them hatred and war. Fact!
PETROUCHKA ALEXIEVA
Miss PETROUCHKA ALEXIEVA: “You must face life obstacles with strength and dedication, but healthy dosage of humor is the best weapon to survive” (P. Alexieva). Ms Alexieva is known as a well-developed LOVE poetry and a feminist writer, a guest-lecturer, academic mentor, key note speaker, TV talent and a highly recognized scholar. She was first published at age of 16 in the national poetry magazine “Rodna Rech”, Bulgaria. She is a Cum Laude graduate at CSULA (2009) and “All American Scholar Award“recipient (2008). She is a life-time member of four distinguished scholar societies. Ms. Alexieva’s poems appeared every Wednesday on ”Daheli Live!” TV show. Ms. Alexieva speaks 8+ languages. Her literary, scholarly and photo-documentaries were highlighted in academic publishing, anthologies, feminist magazines, newspapers, opening ceremonies and numerous open mics in USA, Australia, Hungary, Romania, Transylvania, Bulgaria. Her lectures and poetry writings include, but not limited to ethnic cultures, ethnomusicology, and Japanese Tanka, as well. Most of them relates to women in traditional perspective, gender identity and contemporary feminism. She worked tirelessly with gifted and talented children – in ICAF, NASA, Visa Olympics and more.For her outstanding life-long honorary achievements, Ms. Alexieva’s name was included two times among the most distinguished Earth’s citizens list of NASA’s Mars Exploration Rover (2003) capsule and Science Laboratory Rover (2011) list, for which she has awarded with honorable certificates, as well. Her poem “My Gypsy Soul” dedicated to Sally Ride, the first American female astronaut, was recently selected for “Message in the Bottle” program of NASA’s Europa Clipper Mission.
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