2008 Reading List |
2008 Reading List - Not On Our Watch by Don Cheadle and John Prendergast. Born Standing Up - a comic's life by Steve Martin. 1000 Places to See Before You Die by Patricia Schultz. They Poured Fire on ...
Posted by on Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:27:00 GMT |
Lost Boy |
Can your eyes be the same as those
That I looked into long ago
No, how can they be
So much time has passed
Yet nothing has changed
The boy from long ago
Is a man now or he is forever gone
Another n...
Posted by on Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:33:00 GMT |
The Night Commuters |
Today a child walks
Along a dusty road
Where sorrow spreads
Across the landscape
Like a shadow
A million dreams
Have died here
But even if only one life
Is gone
It is one too many
A child wonde...
Posted by on Wed, 11 Jun 2008 00:44:00 GMT |
Its time ~ |
It's all so easy for you
Sitting there with your book of rules
You think you know the truth
That's fine
You opened your heart
But it's a sin to open your mind
A bitter apple that you drag throu...
Posted by on Tue, 11 Mar 2008 22:29:00 GMT |
Darfur III |
gun to gun
the children run
until there's no place left to hide
dust to dust their mothers weep
never an end to the tears they cry
and the world watches
with closed hearts
with closed ey...
Posted by on Sat, 01 Mar 2008 01:21:00 GMT |
2007 Reading List - |
Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger. Night by Elie Wiesel. Into The Wild by Jon Krakauer. The Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad. The Places In Between by Rory Stewart. Misquoting Jesus - The Story...
Posted by on Thu, 03 Jan 2008 23:07:00 GMT |
Darfur - Still |
How many does it take
How many voices
Bodies
Souls
If I was there
And everyone who cared
Was there
If we
As a group
Demanded change
Face to face
Would it be enough
How many does it take
To be h...
Posted by on Mon, 13 Nov 2006 23:32:00 GMT |
dust to dust |
brightly colored cloth
covers skin and bone
bodies come to rest
in dust far from home
how can this be
they have stopped asking
this is not life
this is not living
this is at most existence
bar...
Posted by on Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:46:00 GMT |
Darfur |
As the sun sets on this day
Are you afraid
Or can you close your eyes
And sleep the night away
Do you dream of peace
In the echo of blazing guns
Or do you know in your heart
There is no reas...
Posted by on Mon, 04 Sep 2006 22:01:00 GMT |
Goma |
War comes around again
And there are simple answers
But no one shouts or whispers them
Because it is so easy
To close our eyes
To that world a world away
Each generation says
We will never forg...
Posted by on Tue, 29 Aug 2006 17:48:00 GMT |
