Tag: children
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Media Lies
I heard the news today and felt the tangles of words and pictures of guilt and shame, hiding the bald truth beneath polite pretence, running a video of the violence of a nation, to deceitfully thwart recognition of their own. —– A child has died, the police convict parents, and so the drip feed wounds…
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She felt like a tree stripped of its leaves and someone was girdling the trunk. Her branches stretched out skeletal after the diet of journeying and fleeing, they rattled against the bones of her children and the struggling child inside, like nestlings hid in a trunk, as they chirp, quarrel and cry for mother’s food.…
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A Little Child Will Lead Them.
I looked and saw thousands of children, spilling over the land, their eyes all alight and shining; bright as the sunlight on the bright blue sea. —— They danced and sang as they came, and their many hued faces laughing with delight – for these are cheerful children favoured by fortune . ——— I turned…
