Poems written by Peter Gibbs over 60 years, inspired by romance, travel, the beauty of nature, emotions and family and friends - peterspoetry.co.uk 

Hunger Games

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Back in the mid-eighties

We all watched Michael Buerk

Bob Geldof saw starvation

And set the stars to work

A record, then live concerts

And many millions raised

Heart strings touched across the world

And many lives were saved

But now in strife-torn Gaza

There's hunger everywhere

Children's limbs are pencil-thin

While parents just despair

The food that's needed urgently

And UN can provide

Is out of reach in danger zones

Or stuck in trucks outside

Hamas they lit the fuse for this

Forgetting human laws

Massacres and hostages

Can't justify a cause

Whatever their agenda

The price their people paid

Homes reduced to rubble

Shrouded corpses laid

Jews and Palestinians

Each need their own home state

But in the camps of refugees

Beleaguered families wait.

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