Today's Philadelphia Inquirer has a page of poems by Sandy Solomon, Charles Bernstein, Daniel Hoffman and Rachel Blau Duplessis (links below)...
Taking in the news
Sandy Solomon
In the stupid computer game
to which I devote myself
as the world hurls itself
at war's impersonal fires
and bright-faced youths in fatigues ...
War stories
Charles Bernstein
War is the extension of prose by other means.
War is never having to say you're sorry.
War is the logical outcome of moral certainty. ...
A Riddle
Daniel Hoffman
If all but one desire me, I am not.
The Greeks had gods for everything but me. ...
From Draft 51: Clay Songs
Rachel Blau Duplessis
Why does it begin again and again?
Why insist on the jagged line
the lightning hitting precariously clear
the flooded splashbacks of political despair?