Showing posts with label rockets. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rockets. Show all posts
Friday, April 10, 2026

OVER THE MOON: A GOLDEN SHOVEL

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by Liam Boyle Now’s a time to celebrate, drink a toast with best French wine, gather friends to break bread and   sing patriotic anthems. Lo...
Wednesday, June 19, 2024

BLOOD ISLAND

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by Sheikha A. Mohammed Hajjar/Associated Press ''The [US-sponsored proposal for a] ceasefire would evolve into a permanent end to ho...
Sunday, November 19, 2023

HAIL, MARY

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by Maria Lisella Buon giorno, buen dia  Maria Full of grace and wisdom and power The Lord may be with thee, and you May be Blessed among wom...
Monday, August 01, 2022

WOKE UP THINKING ABOUT THE PEOPLE OF UKRAINE

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by Bunkong Tuon Lightning lit up the night sky Thunder crashing the world. My bedroom walls shook. Windows felt like they were about to expl...
Monday, July 04, 2022

FREEDOM ON FIRE

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by Emily Jo Scalzo Let the flag fly inverted on our  so-called Independence Day, a message from the newly chained: we cannot abide these tre...
Sunday, March 13, 2022

TIME OUT

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by Marc Swan Photo by Nadia Povalinska "who recently fled her home in Ukraine. It is from before the war, just a few weeks and a lifeti...
Thursday, November 18, 2021

TO BE IN EARTH'S ORBIT

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by Rémy Dambron The US has condemned Russia for conducting a "dangerous and irresponsible" missile test that it says endangered th...
Friday, May 21, 2021

A BRIEF GEOGRAPHY OF GOODBYES

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by Mary K O'Melveny "Red Composition" by Jackson Pollock Everyone who knows grief as it settles onto chests, humid as a jungle...
Saturday, May 15, 2021

PEACE WILL ALWAYS SOUND BETTER

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by Joseph Hope “peace” by Shahid Atiq at toonpool. The body would prefer perfume to real bullets. Prefer water to tear gas. Prefer flowers t...
Sunday, May 31, 2020

MISSION

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by Wendy Hoffman Credit: Doug Mills/ The New York Times , May 29, 2020. The moon lifts its holy head like a sanctified queen. Huma...
Wednesday, April 17, 2019

WATCHING THE BURNING OF NOTRE-DAME CATHEDRAL ON MSNBC WORLD NEWS

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by Alan Catlin The day after Palm Sunday in Paris is now Black Monday. The flames oddly beautiful at night like fire fight...
Friday, November 24, 2017

LET US NOW PRAISE SMALL THINGS

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by George Salamon Video illustrates the November 16, 2017 New York Times article ”Downing North Korean Missiles is Hard. So the US ...
Monday, July 14, 2014

BALANCE

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by Carol Alexander KHAN YUNIS, Gaza Strip -- The Al Haj family never heard it coming: An Israeli missile smashed into their home in the ...
Friday, July 11, 2014

BREAKING NEWS

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by Richard Schnap Image source: AOL I watch rockets burn Across a desert sky As a murder of crows Cries upon the wind ...
Monday, November 19, 2012

FOR BOTH: TWO HAIKU

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by Mary Krane Derr Image source:    EPA/MOHAMMED SABER in  The Telegraph Israel, Gaza: same panic rockets over next-of-kin faces. Par...