Reconciliation with 2025 #DecPodPoMo Episode 30/31

From Cork With Love - by Paul O'Mahony · Jan 1, 2026 · 3m

2025

A year of fire and brimstone,

a reckoning with massacres, starvations, vindictive assaults

on hopes and dreams.

It’s been “disappointing ” to see infants lose their parents – and grandparents crippled with the pain of grief

in ruins, rubble, and relics of the quiet life they wanted more than anything.

Blue skies & clean water

blooming flowers and fruiting trees

fresh streams and songbirds’ lilt

the melody of playgrounds

symphony of toddlers

climbing and seesawing

as the prayers for peace went on and on.

No resurrection

nothing rising from the dead

but carrion over Gaza

and wolves in the…