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by Soraya Boyd
Writer, Dandelion Salad
April 13, 2018
This June will mark 12 years of a crushing and unlawful land, air and sea Israeli-Egyptian blockade on the Gaza Strip.
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with Chris Hedges
Originally on RT America on Dec 3, 2017
The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel on Jul 6, 2022
Gerald Stern, Poet and Author, discusses how poets and their poetry have lost the voice to “speak truth to power” in this digital society.
by Soraya Boyd
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Facilitate Global
November 5, 2014
Drifting in the fevered winter of a desolate mind
The captive pursuit of status and power a daily grind
In such a space the stilled bells of conscience no longer toll
For travailing arduously against sense and dignity many lose their soul
by Soraya Boyd
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Facilitate Global
March 30, 2013
Heaving with revulsion, the defiled and mutilated land suppurates
Bloodied tears borne out of grief inconceivable only inaudible sighs each pang separates
And the mournful stones cry out in great desperation
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by Soraya Boyd
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
Facilitate Global
December 30, 2012
Unlawfully pincered between harsh collective punishment and base military aggression
The tear bedabbled faces of innocent children in constant lacrimation
Afforded no respite cling desperately to their progenitor for safety and protection
Image by IHH Humanitarian Relief Foundation/TURKEY via Flickr
by Soraya Boyd
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
Facilitate Global
December 29, 2012
With breathtaking magnitude, resolute in forefending responsibility for war crimes and crimes against humanity
A darkly glib inhabits the psychic scape of a ruinously polished occupier seeking pseudo security
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by Soraya Boyd
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
Facilitate Global
December 14, 2012
A wailing poignancy tearing at the very heart of a much troubled core
Drenched in a blood soaked landscape incessantly scarred by murderous lore
Powerfully bearing witness to insatiably violent gratuitous gore
No-where to escape from the invasive putrid sore
No-thing but wrought brutality and slaughter oozing from every pore
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by Soraya Boyd
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
Facilitate Global, Dec. 10, 2012
December 11, 2012
Aided and abetted by its coalition of the willing
Plundering Israel tears a thirst-deprived people and its parched land asunder
Under the auspices of its American heel
Raiding Israel steals away every last of drop of water
Aided and abetted by its coalition of the willing
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