They took away the children;

They put them in a car.

We asked where they were going;

They said to us: ‘Quite far’.

They took away the children;

They put them in a van.

We asked them why they did this;

They said: ‘Because we can.’

They took away the children;

They put them in a truck.

We asked why they should suffer;

They said to us: ‘Tough luck’.

...

Read and leave comments (6)

(Maternity Ward – Ukraine)

Caesarean by torchlight,

Windows spraying shards,

Husband killed in fighting,

She holds no more cards.

Shifted while in labour,

Infant on a drip,

Ordeal terrifying,

Fights to keep her grip.

The doctors and the nurses

Deliver in the dark,

But sometimes the destruction

And the death are just too stark.

In Moscow th...

Read and leave comments (4)

NÍ SAOIRSE

GO SAOIRSE

NA PALAISTÍNE!

Canada’s banned the Rappers Kneecap,

About this fact, I’ll make no Bones:

Genocide’s friends are full of Crap,

Obsequious still, to creeps on Thrones,

Canada sucks, ain’t got no Spine,

War criminals ain’t no friends of Mine.

Le Uilleam Ó Ceallaigh,

Dé Domnaigh, an t-aonú lá is fiche...

Read and leave comments (1)

Today, three years ago, Russia launched its brutal invasion of Ukraine, shattering peace and unleashing a wave of destruction. Towns were levelled, lives torn apart, and a nation thrust into an endless struggle for survival. Despite the relentless violence, Ukraine remains unyielding, its people refusing to surrender. The world has watched as the cost in blood and suffering continues to rise, and ...

Read and leave comments (5)

The evil they once did lives after them;

Once more, the monster they created, strikes.

But ever-strident hypocrites demand

that I condemn out loud those evil deeds.

They browbeat me, a great granddad who sees

fresh hell before me, each and every day,

in far-flung corners of this grieving world,

with tears that well up in my ageing eyes,

at images of newly orphaned babes,

Read and leave comments (0)