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Friday, March 21, 2025

World Poetry Day 2025 with a poem by Mosab Abu Toha (of Palestine)

 Mosab Abu Toha

If we stay in our houses, they bomb us. 
If we shelter in a school, they bomb us. 
If we run to a hospital, they bomb us. 
If we move into a tent, they bomb us. 
If we go to a toilet, they bomb us. 
If we run from an air strike, they bomb us. 
If we do not do any of this, they still bomb us. 
If we stay like a tree, 
or temporarily leave like a leaf in the fall, 
they bomb us. 
But spring will come 
and they, those who bomb us, 
will find no bombs among 
the flowers. 
We will be on the trees bathing in the sun, 
and they, those who bomb us, 
will have no sun, 
no place to rest, 
no legs to run.
 

UNESCO Held every year on 21 March, World Poetry Day celebrates one of humanity’s most treasured forms of cultural and linguistic expression and identity.: Practiced throughout history – in every culture and on every continent – poetry speaks to our common humanity and our shared values, transforming the simplest of poems into a powerful catalyst for dialogue and peace.

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