Poems for a Better World

Poems for a better world is collection of poems composed by UN-aligneders for a better better and fairer future.

Gruesome rape and torment in Ukraine, Causing women and children agonising pain. Horrific headlines curdles one to the bone.Russian soldiers have no hearts of their own...

This is war my dear! Invasion for pure greed and gratification. What else can this be?

Where do we start? You haven't a clue. "Well there's nothing that just I can do". But what if your neighbour thought that too? And their neighbour thought they didn't matter. Changes happen when people gather...

Partho Pratim Chatterjee's submission during UN-aligned 2021 poetry competition

i Silence is explicit Silence is complicit Complicity is violence So in the violence of our silence Let us take stock of our complicity ii Our complicity silences truth Muffles honour, rapes innocence The same innocence we plead Confronted by shattered delusion “We didn’t know” iii We wished to not know Blinded, deafened, deadened We turned away Bedecked ourselves in laurel Which now turns to rue iv Our silence - yours and mine - is explicit It is complicit It is violent And in its complicit explicit violence We too have bloodied our souls About Ayesha Kajee Ayesha Kajee, a South African human rights activist and political analyst, has written poems and stories since childhood, but rarely publishes them due to ingrained perfectionism. She was runner up for the Babishaiku haiku prize in 2016.

It is with great pleasure to announce the winners of this year’s poetry competition arranged by UN-aligned. This year, we have received 17 poems that creatively portrayed the values that UN-aligned’s Manifesto campaigns for. The first place goes to Dean Gessie from Canada for his poem “Terra Australis Incognita”.

Read Dean Gessie’s winning submission to the 2021 UN-aligned poetry competition.