{"id":6670,"date":"2025-03-25T13:54:43","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T17:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/?p=6670"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:02:45","slug":"poem-seize-fire-wow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toppun.com\/blog\/2025\/03\/25\/poem-seize-fire-wow\/","title":{"rendered":"POEM: Seize Fire Wow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat has been assassinated by Israel after being openly put on a hit list last October. Hossam is the latest in over 200 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza. In his last letter, prepared in the expectation that he would be assassinated, he makes his final ask: \u201cI ask you now: do not stop speaking about Gaza. Do not let the world look away. Keep fighting, keep telling our stories \u2013 until Palestine is free.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Will Western media cover even the mass serial targeting of journalists? Shame on US.<\/p>\n<p>Here is yet another poem on the U.S.-Israeli genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\"><strong>Seize Fire Wow<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>What kind of accrual<br \/>\nMiracle<br \/>\nTo take hole of fire<br \/>\nSeize the whole cost<br \/>\nWithout being<br \/>\nIn sin raided<br \/>\nHelled in won&#8217;s hand<br \/>\nAs if<br \/>\nNever agin<br \/>\nKiln children<br \/>\nFlame throwing<br \/>\nAs if some pillar of God<br \/>\nMore like dare devil<br \/>\nAs forced fire in a desert<br \/>\nAs sow sin sear<br \/>\nTheir brand of score<br \/>\nAs many daze<br \/>\n108 Palestinians, 0 Israel<br \/>\nPiggish ambitions<br \/>\nBombs sway<br \/>\nAnd diplomatic cover fire<br \/>\nA three wring circa US<br \/>\nTheir lies<br \/>\nA diction<br \/>\nAs the crack&#8217;ll<br \/>\nGet you offed<br \/>\nTheir barb a cue of flesh<br \/>\nA wiled fire in runes<br \/>\nA future made up<br \/>\nOf dead would<br \/>\nAnd the inter-ogation<br \/>\nOf God remains<\/p>\n<p>NOTE: An obscure meaning is in-bedded with the Israel-Palestine score: 108 = won zero ate, where victory lies on Palestinians eating nothing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palestinian journalist Hossam Shabat has been assassinated by Israel after being openly put on a hit list last October. Hossam is the latest in over 200 Palestinian journalists killed by Israel since the beginning of the genocide in Gaza. 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