Syria 11 - Sonnet For School Incursions Poem by Danny Draper
Syria 11 - Sonnet For School Incursions
Aleppo children hung their art of war
They and school proud survivors of its score
It showed their trauma without and within
Each knew life and death and chances were slim.
Pictures of terror became common place
Tattoos of distress were every child's face
Art as therapy defiance to war
Innocence expunged forever more.
The school unscathed announced an art display
Hoping to bring some normal to the day
Expressions of the suffering and pain
Survival despite their leaders disdain.
Bashers' planes shed bombs, perversion, adding
Hyperrealism to a school's incursion.
Danny Draper
4/5/2014
incursion2
/ɪnˈkɜʒən/ (say in'kerzhuhn)
noun an educational activity in which an artist, educator, etc., visits a school to give a demonstration, etc., of their specialty: a drama incursion.
[modelled on EXCURSION, with ex-, meaning `out', being replaced with in-]
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Sad to think that the charcoal renderings of innocent children be slathered in the ashes after a bombing. How is it even definable? You continue to teach us, preach to us through your mighty soldiers of words....I wish I could sit through a semester of your stirring stories. PEACE, my grand poet friend
how can they do it, Danny, when they can see the bombs coming? Is it because it's relevant?
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4/19/2024 12:02:51 PM # 1.0.0.1119
War makes difficult situations to functioning of nearby schools and distress to the children. A poem of relevance here made. likes.