Notes About The Poem

Child Soldiers

How tragic, 
   innocent kids
      as young
         as nine years old
      in war-torn countries
   with weapons
of war...

gun-toting!
   It is...
      sheer madness.
         Sickening!
      They should be in school,
   not in the battlefield...
with...

rifles half their height!


              (Yalto)


 "Yalto" is a form invented by yours truly
Line 1-15: 3,4,2,4,5,3,2,3,2,3,3,5,6,1,5
Date written: 03/07/2020
Copyright © | Year Posted 2020

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Pandit Avatar
March 8, 2020 at 7:28 AM
I see those photos in your splendid imagery, Edward --succinctly depicted in Yalto.
Ibeh Avatar
March 8, 2020 at 8:12 AM
Thank you, Vijay:-)
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