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Andrea 🌄's avatar

Difficult content but it needs to be said. These deaths shouldn’t go unnoticed.

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Thanks Andrea 🙏

Hina Gondal's avatar

Exceptional

Missy Jacobson's avatar

Great piece. You could feel the drones and more.

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Thanks Missy 🙏 I appreciate you reading 🥹

Azure Jo Storm's avatar

Excellent images you created here.

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Thank you so much!!!

Fragments and the Dark's avatar

This is an amazing piece! I loved your imagery! 🥰

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Thank you so much! 🙏

Johnny Under Sky's avatar

If ever there was a poem that captures the scenes of war drones, this is it. You captured it so well in the hunting beers and armored birds.

Jahdean Levy's avatar

God damn, lovely imagery. This was a very enjoyable read.

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Thanks Jahdean! I appreciate you being here mate 🙏

Brooklyn Crane's avatar

This is a mighty powerful poem, QH. I think I still remember it from the earliest days of having you here, but it's always great to refresh one's memory about such relevant themes.

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Thanks Brooklyn, you were the first quiet hour poet!!!

Chris Rowe | Signal & Noise's avatar

Brutal and beautiful. You not only capture the violence, but the anticipation of it—the hum, the searching, the moment just before impact. It lingers. 🙏

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Thanks Chris! I appreciating you reading and commenting 🙏🥹

Sattie R's avatar

This made my heart bleed. I don't like that people suffer through such horror.

MoTy's avatar
Feb 25Edited

I appreciate the author’s note. Glad you added it. Also, it’s a great piece to be ‘an intro’ here. How many more have you written since then?

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I took your advice!!!

I have 75 posts on Substack 🤯. A few ones I like, a few ones I don’t haha!

Johnny Under Sky's avatar

Mate, which ones are you the least fond of? I’m already trying to read the pages less travelled

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Probably this one: I actually like all the concepts I try to write about, but this one just needed more time to breathe. A few more edits, better flow and rhythm.

https://thequiethourpoet.substack.com/p/strong-women-raise-forests?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Nora O’Dowd's avatar

Those last lines are such a powerful conclusion to this devastating poem.

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Thanks Nora, I really appreciate you reading! 🙏

HVR's avatar

This one hurts.