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Peace from the Sirens

(Wrote the other week in a zoom poetry reading after hearing a Indian Poet describe about how they are constantly hearing ambulances going past their home with ill people from pandemic. I aimed for a haiku with this but the poem decided otherwise and it became a closeish Haiku instead)

 

 

No Ambulances

you long for peace

from the sirens

 

 

 

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Nigel Astell

Sat 5th Jun 2021 20:26

The fear that these sirens bring
you can hear inside your poem Andy.

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