Poems: Occupation Sticker Albums - Warning Words
Occupation Sticker Albums
For Palestinian
and Iraqi Dead
By Genevieve Cora Fraser
NOTE: "Intifada Sticker Albums" are now a popular item among Palestinian children who collect scenes of the intifada the way western children collect sports and Hollywood star photo cards. The albums are viewed as a matter of pride in support of resistance to Israel's brutal occupation.
The coin of hate
Has two
sides
Israel
America
Have morphed into
one
Obscene occupation
Falluja, Ramadi,
Baquba
Rafah, Jenin, Nablus
Snipers shoot from on
high
As demigods
Into their prey
Through blood
splattered windshields
Ambulance driver
Dead
eyes
Stare
At silhouetted troops
Against a steel
grey sky
Pictures of dead martyrs
Stick
Onto
album
Scenes of the blood soaked
Intifada
Heralding
resistance
To an Arab world's
Children
Adrift on
the Dead Sea
Scrolls of images
Shot
Decapitated,
amputated, eviscerated
Grandfathers stripped
Naked
with humiliation gunned
Fathers butchered along dusty
roads
Mothers crushed babes in arms
Naked child
detainees
Savaged
By the sweaty hands
Of trigger
happy
Occupation overwhelming force
Brimming with
hate
See Al-Aqsa mosque
Picture
A sacred site
A
masked fighter holds a gun
Battle with an Apache
helicopter
Half a shekel
Buys one album
One coin
buys two
Palestine and Iraq
A new testament
To an
old struggle
Small streams and springs
Feed the river
to the sea
Of bloody revenge
The poor
slaughtered
By cash cowed
Imperialism
Bedded down
with corporate
greed
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Words of Warning Israel
By Genevieve Cora Fraser
One light is burning
Past the hour of
sleep
I dream waking
Anguished Israel
Your soldiers
wait
To taunt and to kill
Exchange bullets for
rocks
Between soldiers and child
Israel
Hour after
hour tanks
Push death into life
Hope to despair
Israel
Palestine's Holocaust
Draws near as you
fear
A victim's revenge
Day or night
Might
strike
Israel
A Zionist dream
Conquest and might
Blames the victim
Shame on you mighty Israel
As
you vanquish a people
Steal their Lands
Heritage and
rights
You think
They won't fight Israel
Hated
and feared
You'll loose all you hold
Dear
Israel
You insist they not resist
As you incarcerate
Palestine
United in hope given the rope
You will
hang by your evil
Israel believed by the naïve
You
continue to deceive
Israel but the day of
reckoning
Draws near and one thing
Is clear if
Palestine is enslaved
Or sent to their grave
A
pyrrhic victory
Will be your undoing
Zionist
Israel
The whole world
Is watching
Israel
ENDS