{"id":409576,"date":"2024-05-13T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=409576"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T14:00:00","slug":"G-U-N-S-B-O-M-B-S-Mothers-and-W-A-R-S","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/G-U-N-S-B-O-M-B-S-Mothers-and-W-A-R-S\/","title":{"rendered":"G.U.N.S. B.O.M.B.S. Mothers and W.A.R.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>G.U.N.S. Gaza Ukraine Need Solace<\/p>\n<p>B.O.M.B.S. Bring Out Mankind\u2019s Brutal Side<\/p>\n<p>W.A.R.S. Witness All Reality. We Are Responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Mothers live and die in all war torn countries<\/p>\n<p>Mothers give birth and their children die in wars<\/p>\n<p>Mothers mourn over 60 thousand dead children in Gaza<\/p>\n<p>Mothers mourn more than 300 thousand dead Russian soldiers<\/p>\n<p>Mothers mourn unreported numbers of dead Ukraine soldiers<\/p>\n<p>More than a million Ukraine mothers and children fled to Poland<\/p>\n<p>Mothers and adult children flee Russian military conscription<\/p>\n<p>Mothers fear and weep tears. Mothers shed many tears.<\/p>\n<p>W.A.R. War Always Repeating. World Always Repeats.<\/p>\n<p>W.A.R. We Are Responsible. We\u2019re all Responsible.<\/p>\n<p>W.A.R. We Are Rotting. We All Rot. We Are Reality.<\/p>\n<p>Author\u2019s note: the number of dead in the Ukraine \/Russian war,<\/p>\n<p>and the Gaza\/Israel war changes daily, weekly, monthly. It<\/p>\n<p>depends on who is providing the body counts. Governments tend<\/p>\n<p>to under-report the number of dead. The Red Cross, the United<\/p>\n<p>Nations, and other institutions estimates vary in their numbers.<\/p>\n<p>The above is a prose poem fusion using caustic acronym hymns<\/p>\n<p>in a sonnet form to present a modern-day maternal dirge.<\/p>\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/images\/imgupload\/51ec1f1100d5d7eea9228e5f43276c9f.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Joey aka &#8220;Pepe Batbon&#8221; Connolly is a retired educator who taught in the CNMI, NOLA, and LVNV. He is the Poet Laureate of Tinian and enjoys stargazing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>G.U.N.S. Gaza Ukraine Need Solace B.O.M.B.S. Bring Out Mankind\u2019s Brutal Side W.A.R.S. Witness All Reality&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=409576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/409576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=409576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=409576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=409576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}