As always I'm moved to laugh, cry or think on your poetry.
This feels like an homage to Rula's occasional pieces on the subject.
I watch the news each morning and with the advent of the cell phone I see too much of this personally.
And I take it personally.

monotetra dear Judy. The image would move the stone as they say, but....a sigh here.
I wrote about the same image but thought yours is much more expressive.
Thank you for sharing.

Powerful. Love it

a great way to break your dry spell! I loved this one and it is superb! I am about to go look up this form, that brought forth such a serious, sober work. Maybe I can write something half as good as this! ~ Gee

I saw the photo on the news
I remember my own baby
my daughter
whom is still alive and well
but at that age
Remember her clothes
dressing her for our day out
never thinking we would or
might try to make a dash across
a treacherous sea for a better
world...
this child is well dressed
care in clothes and thought
Loved..enough that the mother
father would want them to gave
a better happier life in a freer
land

but the seas rose up
and swallowed their hope
did they make it too freedom
at least even in a physical form?

it was very very sad and distressing
and I saw that
it reminded me of the girl in vietnam
that time whom was our age

and life goes on
like war
and apogees of crises
little angels
with briney halos

thank U !

I know many who would.