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From:
"Women Creating A World Beyond War and Violence"
Thanks to Roberta Manley for sharing these
two poems
TWO WOMEN PEACE POEMS
By Ada Aharoni
You Cannot Bomb Me Anymore
Listen, little big man,
you cannot bomb
me
anymore
because I don't allow you
to bomb me anymore
nor to choke
nor rape me anymore,
for I have my own strength now
and my own
creative
peace business now
With this woman's mind
this woman's body
this woman's heart -
we don't allow you
to bomb us anymore
for our sisters in Norway
have shown us the way
and now -
you cannot, cannot, cannot bomb us
anymore.
For it was
the grandmother
who ate the big bad wolf
and not the other way round --
so now
we will not allow you
to bomb us, bomb us,
ANYMORE.
Palm
Curve
Cuddled in the heart
of your hand,
soft hand, warm hand,
I do not feel the meaningless drops
of life
drizzling,
do not hear its jackal-thunder
nor see its lynx-lightning
in the dark.
And if the world should burst tonight
in
a giant mushroom flame,
I would not notice
-
Snuggled in the nook
of your gentle palm
where I belong,
it seems I may exist
forever.
We are all alike -
gently dozing in the
nook
and the noose
of borrowed nuclear time.
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