Today’s prompt can be found here.
This Land
the denizens of this bucktoothed, ramshackled land
weary-eyed, stiff-browed, sharp-nosed land
like to toast grapes and flatbread to this land
these people like to square off their fields of land
gated like a precious secret patch of land
and salute a half-masted flag in love of this land
they kill for this land, they bleed for this land
they starve for this land, they die for this land
praise the lord and the heavens for this land
then later curse gods and angels over this land
become heathens and heretics for this land
torture neighbours and friends for this land
trample wives and children for this land
lynch medics and journalists for this land
deny humanity and life for this foreign land
their greed will come for your homeland next
Dihya Ammar 
3 responses to “GloPoWriMo 2024 – Day 14”
[…] to the daily prompt really amazed me. I started getting the idea for writing this after reading Dihya Ammar’s This Land. That is a poem about genocide and colonialism, but it got me thinking about world events which […]
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Missing your writes! Hope you’re ok.
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Hello! Sadly, GloPoWriMo this year coincided with some field work I had to do. I spent the 2nd half of April bogged down (literally). I’m slowly making up the sixteen missing poems. I’m doing well. I hope you are too.
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