here we are again on quadrille monday at dverse poet pub. with the word stand. This piece is inspired by a young child I spotted on my cycle ride home from work this evening. With his face covered in blackberry juice from a hedgerow his father was picking from. remembering being both father and child in that situation got me thinking what if I was not privaliged enough to have such privalage.

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Blackberry Temptation!

 They stand tears in eyes!

Blackberries out of reach,

Barbed wire fence, gun tower,

Between them.

Nature’s harvest torments

 mocking empty bellies,

Of starving prisoners,

Guard’s faces

 smeared and taunting.

Child and father remembering

Taste of blackberries before war,

Death summons on barbed wire.

© rog leach 09/08/2021

i am taking this poem to an open mic night on sunday 29th august 2021.