Gazan Cull
A sniper's deliberate shot fells a kneeling girl, erasing an Arab womb.
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From ULR
Issue 6 – Freedom
Gaza
Gaza's children, scarred by bombs, forever hunch and flee, echoing holocaust survivors.
December 1, 2021
‘Suffer the children’
I
Those who have known
holocaust children
cannot forget them.
Hunched as though
a kick were coming,
haunted of eye,
head ever turning,
their gait an almost shuffle
and ever like a cat
prepared to flee,
a silent scream
not to touch
with hand or word.
II
Israel’s leaders,
they of all folk
prison-like
have fenced in Gaza
bid generals
hurl their bombs,
their shells and rockets
from air and sea
and rolling tanks,
hurl clinging fire scarring children
who survive,
as those of over
sixty years ago.
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PART OF A COLLECTIONGaza and 2 other poems
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Murray Alfredson
Murray Alfredson is a former librarian, lecturer in librarianship and Buddhist Associate in the Multi-Faith Chaplaincy at Flinders University. He has won a High Beam poetry award 2004, the Poetry Unhinged Multicultural Poetry Prize 2006, the Friendly Street Poets Political poetry prize 2009. He serves the editorial panel of different international journals and magazines. He is at Ashvamegh editorial panel. He describes himself as a poet, essayist and skeptic. He is the author of Gleaming Clouds (Interactive Publications). He lives in Australia.