Jan Hansen Poet Sonnet

Is War Coming

Is war coming?

The sky is subdued, military jets scream across awful thunder.
Soldiers in the wood, guns at the ready, the dog took fright
disappeared in the bushes.
Deep silence walked past them ignored my greetings
am I the target? Vultures circled around, sensing a meal.
With a sharp order from an officer, the soldiers march eastward.
The dog came back from its hiding place looking shameful.
The warning of war is coming this way sure as lightning
60 years of peace- except the Balkans- we are spooked.
People of Europe hence the scramble to find a way back home,
where they will feel safe huddled together
hoping; the war will not affect them.
The news speaks about patriotism, time to take sides.
When the war is over, those who chose wrongly will be hanged 
on the winning side, wave flags and feel heroic.

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L Milton Hankins February 24, 2022 at 1:51 PM I can't answer your basic question, jan, but I know you live in Europe, and Europe is a small continent. A conflagration in one country inevitably affects all of the others. I certainly hope this war can be contained, but I suspect Putin wants all the territory of the former USSR back. It appears that is his goal.