Two Poems about Palestine

Rebecca Ruth Gould, PhD
Writers’ Blokke
3 min readApr 8, 2024

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“Stolen Limestone” and “Roman Ruins in Occupied Palestinian Territory”

View of the illegal Israeli settlement Har Homa from Palestinian village Beit Sahour (near Bethlehem) via Flickr.

About the poems: I wrote the two poems below during 2011 and 2012, while I was living in Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank. The first poem, “Stolen Limestone” describes the scene whenever I gazed on towards Jerusalem from the hills of Bethlehem.

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Rebecca Ruth Gould, PhD
Writers’ Blokke

Poetry & politics. Free Palestine 🇵🇸. Caucasus & Iran. Writer, Educator, Translator & Editor. rrgould.hcommons.org https://www.soas.ac.uk/about/rebecca-gould