Tag: Poetry Thursday
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An End to the War in Afghanistan
President Biden has recently announced that he intends to bring the War in Afghanistan to an end. In 2015, my poem Snow Over Kabul, was published at The 5-2: Poems on Crime. An excerpt of the poem is below. Read the entire poem, and access a recorded reading, at this link.
SNOW OVER KABUL: THE BAGRAM AIRBASE BOMBING
That old white man,
he told the talk show host
he was celebrating as he flew
in the doomsday machinehigh over the Atlantic Ocean
on his way to Kabul from New York City.Even from that altitude
he thought of building on
a war, built for decades
on shifting sands.
Aja Beech 