POETRY FOR THE PEOPLE! Submit up to 3 poems about today's world in flux totaling no more than 150 lines each by emailing donkingfishercampbell@gmail.com by 11:59pm, May 30th. Culmination reading will be held on Saturday, May 31st, 3 to 5 pm ON ZOOM ONLY (link to reading will be provided to every published poet).

Tuesday, May 6, 2025

Jennifer Rudick Zunikoff

WE WILL CLIMB POMEGRANATE TREES


Your story is

Inconvenient for me


That does not mean it is not true


My story is

Inconvenient for you


Even so, I am not lying


And what's more


I'll never believe G-d loves me 

more than G-d loves you


I'll never unknow that your child must

Thrive upon fresh air and clean water


Peace will never arrive. Instead


We will climb pomegranate trees

And call it down from heaven 


We will pluck olives and till fields

And feel old and grow gnarled


And be pure as white doves

We will slowly rock in our chairs 


And listen to each other's stories

And cry and laugh and cry


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