Two Poems by Lynda Tavakoli

 

BAIT

 

 

He left for food -  

a bag of flour - 

 

and because he could not run 

like others ran, 

 

he returned to them, 

a bagful now, 

 

of something else.

SPEAKING TO A BLIND WORLD 

 

 

see the ragdoll children 

 

those stillborn foals of war 

charred black by birthings of fire 

 

and see them slide between the hands  

of their redeemers 

  

slipping through practised fingers 

among the clean up 

 

 

  

I need to acknowledge it  

 

this human road kill 

this abomination 

 

this reminder  

of what we are witness to 

 

when silence itself  

remains blind to its own truth

Lynda Tavakoli lives in County Down, Northern Ireland, and is a professional member of The Irish Writers Centre. She has won several international poetry and short story awards and been nominated for Best of the Net and the Pushcart Prize. Lynda’s recent poetry collection ‘A Unison of Breaths’ is published by Arlen House and her digital book with video ‘Unbroken/The Gaza Poems’ is published by Live Encounters Publishing.