Iraq

It's the little ones who pay the price of war

 

Iraq

 

 

 

 

 

Iraq

Sands of death blow heavy today

Leaving its stench of bloodshed

Little ones die

Bombings

Author's Note

CINQUIANO


a five-line Spanish syllabic poem with even-numbered syllables per line.

Stanzas : 1
Stanza Type : Quintet
Lines : 5
Accents : Varies
Syllables : 2 (for line 1); 8 (for line 2); 7 (line 3); 4 (line 4); and 2 (line 5)
Rhyme : None

Reviews

[angelina neves]

very real and well done...
such horrible sad world we live in where children have no safe place to live and play... When are humans going to learn to share and care and peacefully play everywhere?

[Helena]

Oh dear, I have seen that shocking image of that poor little girl before.
Simply horrific and you conveyed just that in your compassionate
and caring write.

Helena

[Salvatore Buttaci]

I like poets like you, unafraid to leap right in and, following the rules of the form, write beautiful poetry! I believe writing poetry requires a touch of courage. I have seen many young poets stop writing because of someone's unkind criticism. I got plenty of it growing up, not from encouraging parents but from friends who felt poetry was a sissy thing. But I kept writing and reading poetry. Deep down I knew in my life it would save me over and over again. And it has.

Sal

[Salvatore Buttaci]

A very good cinquiano!

Sal

[bluessadmood]

listen dear they say i play on the tune of humanity that i have some malicious reasons,there are more horrors than you can imagine ,i have see right across the street from where i live ,few months ago,blood on the street so thick to tell how many where killed ,i have seen corpses everywhere no body come to bury because they are afraid to tough it,so it stays untill it decompose,so many friends families were killed,so many were refugee in million in surrounding countries,about 1.5 million killed,we are even afraid to go downtown for you easily get killed ,it the land of horror ,they said we had gas of Sarin ,what a joke ,they took the whole country in few hours to take weapons so deadly to kill the whole world ,yes we are so dangerous ha ha ,what a joke ,we menace to society they say,so they have to clean the world of such danger,yes now we are clean ,though not so clean there are some more who should be killed then we are clean

[laceyjane23]

wow, very shockingly real, nice job in expressing the reality of war, i like the style you chose to write it in as well.
laceyjane