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The War in Colors
The War in Colors
The digital map on the wall
displays the American wars
in colors:
Iraq in purple
Syria in yellow
Kuwait in blue
Afghanistan in red
Vietnam in green.
The war
on the map
is beautiful
smart
and colorful.
Copyright © 2017 by Dunya Mikahil. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on September 19, 2017, by the Academy of American Poets.
Copyright © 2017 by Dunya Mikahil. Originally published in Poem-a-Day on September 19, 2017, by the Academy of American Poets.
previous poems
date |
title | author |
|---|---|---|
| September 18, 2017 | Mistake | Heather Christle |
| September 17, 2017 | The Expiration | John Donne |
| September 16, 2017 | A Moment | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge |
| September 15, 2017 | Kettle | Phillis Levin |
| September 14, 2017 | Thursday | James Longenbach |
| September 13, 2017 | praise poets and their pens | JP Howard |
| September 12, 2017 | A Little Bit | Eileen Myles |
| September 11, 2017 | The Endless | Timothy Donnelly |
| September 10, 2017 | Quest | Georgia Douglas Johnson |
| September 09, 2017 | Sonnet X [To one who has been long in city pent] | John Keats |
