POEM: 1-4-2014

An ekphrastic poem:

THE AFGHAN GIRL

Piercing sea-green eyes

Accuse us of atrocities

Pashtun’s pride, Sarbat Gula

Smile less, La Gioconda

Red scarf flying in tatter

Fleeing the gunship helicopter

Alone in Nasir Bagh squalor

At twelve, a helpless victim of war

Made immortal by Steve Curry

Forlorn waif that time could not bury

 ©2014  April

Lalarukh Lasharie