Afghans Poems - Poems about Afghans

knitting

...toasty variegated yarn from Oskaloosa
the hues of colors
red blue yellow green
knitting needles are clicking along

warm mittens and slippers
afghans and shawls
a dress for a toddler
clickety...

I rarely watch TV

...I am always in competition against myself, it is free.
Playing word games, while I listening to the droning TV
You do not even watch! My husband says amused.
He is right. I use it like a radio, li...

Beat the Drums

...
Beat the drums; aye, beat the drums!
Make them go stark raving mad—
These likes of Emperor Jones. 1

The criminals' courts play house.
Adzes don't cut their own tails. 2
Where are Clinton, Bu...

Smartest Thing Obama Ever Said

...PREAMBLE
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What I witnessed on October 7 was indefensible. Just to be clear, Hamas are not militants or freedom fighters as many in the mainstream media would have you believe - they...

Twits Terrible Nitwits

...past knoxville and idaho city there are a pair of adorable nitwits.
townspeople refer to them as kooky oddballs, a couple of twits.
their name is easy to  learn. she is backward ditz; he is fritz.
...

Grandma Has Color Now

...Grandma always wanted color in the house
But grandpa said no
She threated to leave him
She threatened to go

He told her to go ahead
acting like he did not care
She stayed around until his dea...

My Home

...homemade cotton quilts
adoring husband
two loyal puppies
all my favorite foods
hundreds of paintings

knitted afghans
warm fuzzy socks
my own haven
comfortable

nirvana
refreshing
relaxi...

Burka

...BURKA
Being housed daily in a cage of cloth
Heavy and burdensome I yearn to be free
As a person in a straitjacket I scream
My yoke is colored black 
It is hot inside my burka yet there are voice...

Twenty Years and Rotsa Ruck

...Where would the South Koreans be
  If the USA had left 'em high and dry by '73

And can you imagine West Germans' lives
  If America had cleared out by '75

But 20 years for the Afghans was jus...

International Corelations

...S/he began our academic feast
in EcoFeminist HerStory Class
reflecting on the history of violent pissed communication
and nonviolent communion
between Afghanistan's empowered
and disempowering L...

Nobody Home

...I shook him and shook him but he wouldn’t waken
He had to wake up to take his medication
It isn’t for pleasure or for recreation
But just for the sake of the USA nation

But on second thoughts, ...

Kandahar

...Ask the Indus to where it flows,
from Tibetan mountains it goes,
to big blue Arabian Sea
in the city of Karachi!

It watered that ground for eons,
it has raised heroes and icons,
people from s...

Biden In the History Book

...Political leaders take countries to war,
making decisions that are political, 
done to ensure they are voted for, 
domestic approval and nothing more. 

Biden couldn't have got it more wrong,
c...

At Least Four Marines Too Many

...What have we done?
What have we said?
What’s left to do?
When dead means DEAD.

Where do they go?
Where can they be?
Living a life in peace where free means free.

Humanity has failed the Af...

A Faith Worse Than Death

...Afghanistan! would anybody give a damn
perhaps had a chance, under Uncle Sam 
They gave them weapons, to fight Talibans
enslavers of women, for pleasures of man

Kabul was thriving, the west bro...

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