Amal El-Mohtar @amalelmohtar.com

I just need people to understand, as this poem has been circulating where I can see it since October 2023, that it was first published in August 2014

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Jayaprakash has a mastertape @jayaprakash777.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 30, 2024 at 10:05 UTC

Wrote a letter to a local newspaper about the plight of Palestinian children in the 1980s. The 1980s. This horror is older than so many Palestinians now. ☹️

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Peter @cgblue.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 28, 2024 at 03:36 UTC

Ah, that art supercedes time, yet again, and we grok art in firmly in our own time, yet again

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Spacepotatoe @janel131.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 28, 2024 at 00:08 UTC

Beautiful 😔

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Jennifer Crow @writerjencrow.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 28, 2024 at 01:15 UTC

💔

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Fauxmorian @fauxmorian.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 27, 2024 at 23:21 UTC

Reading this paints such a strong mental picture of loss and it hurts like a wound in the heart, I'm so sorry to all those suffering and all those children who deserve lives of peace but had it stolen, to those who've grown up continuing to face oppression for their whole lives, to those lost.

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Staci Willis @sewnandsea.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 28, 2024 at 01:32 UTC

Wow. I'm usually not one for poetry but this hit hard. Thank you for sharing and for the added context.

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Laura J Mixon @laurajmg.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 28, 2024 at 01:14 UTC

Heartbreaking and beautiful. Thanks, Amal.

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whetstone @whetstone.bsky.social [ View ] Mar 28, 2024 at 01:03 UTC

📌

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