BLUE HERON POETRY
  • Home
  • About
  • Books
    • A Farewell to Lent
    • Beloved Brother, Beloved Sister - Poems for Palestine
    • Hymnody of the Blue Heron
    • Just Thinking
    • When Words Get in the Way
  • Featured Poems

Ali, Ali, Outs In Free
​for Ali, Gaza


Olly olly oxen free!
Steal your flag and find your tree,
Olive branch and olive leaf,
Pungent fruit and bitter tea.
Ali, Ali, outs in free!
 
Olly olly oxen free!
Call them all and call them in,
Brother, sister, distant kin.
Hearts left out, now hearts come in.   
Ali, Ali, outs in free!
 
Olly olly oxen free!
All who stay and all who roam,
Journey to your golden dome.
Raise the colors now, you’re home.
Ali, Ali, outs in free!


  • Home
  • About
  • Books
    • A Farewell to Lent
    • Beloved Brother, Beloved Sister - Poems for Palestine
    • Hymnody of the Blue Heron
    • Just Thinking
    • When Words Get in the Way
  • Featured Poems