Syria - Aleppo, Syria, February 22,2013 Poem by Danny Draper

That anyone could turn a blind eye, in ignorance, to the o going plight in Syria, is beyond comprehension. For many here, in the US...a disappointing time, when violence is considered an option to end violence. You have illuminated a darkness, in the loud volume of your write. I applaud your strength and civility. Bravo, Danny and as always...PEACE

Probably one of the best works on this website and needs to be published, I've read this four or five times and I cannot help but feel awestruck by the depth and analysis of the situation, it never sounds preachy, or condescending, but provides a dramatic contextualization of events as they are happening now, in real time. This is a fine example of contemporary writing really is a 10 out of 10

Danny this really is one of the most affecting and honestly harrowing writes I've ever read. I found it particularly hard hitting due to how you chose to (as I see it) report the incidents... I feels like poetic journalism if humanities most horrific behaviour and crimes... The second section really strengthens the whole piece as if I relate in visual documentational terms the first feels a slightly disassociated long lens report but when you enter the latter section... To me it seems the chained reaction which relates on a more personal level. As ever Danny all I can say is I hope you get what in earth I'm trying to express. Karen Bloody excellent piece Danny intelligent and contemporary.

Powerful and disturbing write Danny.

Grief dilates and dry tears burst In wailing escalating pain as Mothers push through putrid sanity without sedation, welcoming the reality of insanity, One more push til torn and scarred for life as Each babe a crowning glory is Delivered into the cold and sacred earth. What powerful lines cutting through the flesh even benumbing the terrible labour pain! Why the world turns a sepulchre to these babes that would have been crowning glories to this earth?