Sense Sonnet - Acher

 Fadwa Tuqan

Fadwa Tuqan of Palestine

Created poetry to tell

In her own distinctive design

Of the suffering that did dwell

Within her people who had to

Endure the occupation by

The Israeli armed forces who

Caused all of her loved ones to die.

In December, 2003,

Under siege, Nablu, her hometown,

Alone and bedridden was she,

And writing her last poem down.

She wrote that her time here was gone,

Poet of Palestine passed on.