No one can threaten hunger with bullets. Continue reading
Filed under Peacekeeping …
Beyond the Romance of the Soldier-Poet
One puts the book down, numb beyond weeping, for it goes well beyond the romance of being a soldier-poet ‘in the tradition of Wilfred Owen, Robert Graves, Siegfried Sassoon’…. Continue reading
Poetry by Michael Whelan
These poems tell a powerful story. Continue reading
‘Peacekeeper’ by Michael Whelan
The poems were inspired by my tours of duty as a United Nations Peacekeeper with the Irish Defence Forces in South Lebanon and Kosovo. Continue reading
Poetry
does God not see
our tears falling on the ground
near the stony road Continue reading
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