Palestine Advent 21: Do you know what getting bombed by an F16 feels like?, by Tala Abu Rahmeh

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A bombed building in Gaza, red and yellow shutters to a shop next to rubble.

The twenty-first poem in our Palestine Advent series is Do you know what getting bombed by an F16 feels like?, by Tala Abu Rahmeh.

Do you know what getting bombed by an F16 feels like?, by Tala Abu Rahmeh

Tala Abu Rahmeh is a therapist, writer and translator based in New York City. Born to a refugee father and an internally displaced mother, Tala grew up between Jordan and Palestine. She is a contributor to We Call to the Eye & to the Night: Love Poems by Writers of Arab Descent (Persea Books, 2023).

With thanks to Natalie Jabbar and Chris Rose for inspiring this idea.

You can donate to the Amos Trust Gaza Christmas appeal here

Photo by Emad El Byed on Unsplash

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Published by Anthony Wilson

I am a lecturer, poet and writing tutor. I work in teacher and medical education at the University of Exeter. My anthology Lifesaving Poems was published by Bloodaxe Books in 2015. In 2012 I published Riddance (Worple Press), a collection of poems, and Love for Now (Impress Books), a memoir, about my experience of cancer. The Wind and the Rain, my sixth collection of poems, is available now from Blue Diode Publishing. My current research project, funded by the Foyle Foundation, is Young Poets' Stories: https://youngpoetsstories.com/. This blog is archived by the British Library.

2 Comments

  1. A powerful piece. The sort of poem you don’t even want to read but can’t regret reading. Human beings do terrible things to each other. No one can fathom why.

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