Poets Against War continues the tradition of socially engaged poetry by creating venues for poetry as a voice against war, tyranny and oppression.

Susan Elbe

57 years old

I'm a poet and work as a Web Content Analyst in Madison, Wisconsin.  I grow more sad every day this conflict continues and want to contribute my voice against it.

Inside a Dream of Peace

You’re on the third floor of an old textile mill

where the floor is slanted with grief

and the windows are full of snow,

but all the risky machines have gone silent

and soft with a fur of lint.

Everyone's gone home

to supper, to the circled table they call family.

In the corner, you find

a brown paper bag--inside,

a bruised apple and a paring knife

someone forgot.

High up on the ceiling, one bare bulb,

small and round as a full summer moon.

Spools and spools of raw thread.

Slowly, by hand, you start to weave new cloth.

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