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Down by the river<\/em><\/span> <\/p>\n \u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n \n with water and meadow<\/em> <\/span> the valley begins at the mountain<\/em><\/span> IN WAR. A poetic cycle by Susanne Ayoub. *5500 years ago, during the first known war of humankind, the city of Hamoukar, near the present-day border of Iraq and Syria, was obliterated.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n Translation Geoffrey Howes<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Down by the river freshness greens all that grows the fish swim close to the bank evenings the deer stand at forest\u2019s edge those down there how well they live \u00a0 with water and meadow sun and woods all that\u2019s left for us is drought and cold and stone Yet from injustice a … Continue reading “HAMOUKAR* – The Dawn”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archive","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2249"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3583,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2249\/revisions\/3583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nfreshness greens<\/em><\/span>
\nall that grows <\/em><\/span>
\nthe fish swim <\/em><\/span>
\nclose to the bank<\/em><\/span>
\nevenings the deer <\/em><\/span>
\nstand at forest\u2019s edge <\/em><\/span>
\nthose down there ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_3568-250x188.jpg\")
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\nhow well they live<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.susanneayoub.at\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/IMG_3566-250x188.jpg\")
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\nsun and woods <\/em><\/span>
\nall that\u2019s left for us <\/em><\/span>
\nis drought <\/em><\/span>
\nand cold and stone <\/em><\/span>
\nYet from injustice <\/em><\/span>
\na sharp weapon<\/em> <\/span>
\ncan be forged<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\nwe will join <\/em><\/span>
\nthose down there <\/em><\/span>
\nand take the light and warmth <\/em><\/span>
\nthe full stomachs <\/em><\/span>
\nthe contentment <\/em><\/span>
\nwe\u2019ll take the peace <\/em><\/span>
\nthey didn\u2019t share with us <\/em><\/span>
\nno one will possess it <\/em><\/span><\/p>\n
\nIn progress.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n