Tahrir Square Shrouded In Smoke Teargas Clouds Poem by Terence George Craddock (Spectral Images and Images Of Light)

in immediate
protest response
to Mubarak’s
awaited late-night
television address

one eyewitness
reported a
small seed fire
had been set
at the Mogama

building housing
several
government
offices
in central

Tahrir square
which was
shrouded by clouds
of smoke teargas
Mubarak in his first

public appearance
since unrest
broke out
four days before
said on state

television 'It is not
by setting fire
and by attacking
private
and public property

that we achieve
the aspirations
of Egypt
and its sons,
but they will

be achieved
through dialogue,
awareness
and effort.'
aspirations

of protesters
will be achieved
through effort
dialogue in Egypt
with Mubarak gone...


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