Eleven-Eleven-guess this would fit Ed's Challenge

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Open Poetry #34

Eleven-Eleven-guess this would fit Ed's Challenge

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2004-11-11 12:39 PM

Eleven-Eleven

front page
lights up with remembrance
with praise
with thankful support
a contrast
of recent days
where loss
danger
chaos
held the stage

but today
bravery
valor
honor
are lauded
today
this side of war
is lifted to our eyes
to our hearts
to our consciousness

pleading
for our prayers
seeking our pause
for applause
not as much for a
job well done
as for
a willingness
to do the job at all
a selflessness
to stand
to crawl
to step into the fray
of combat
for a higher cause
and hoping
against all odds
that the cause
is not merely greed
but freedom sought-
oppression damned

©November 11, 2004

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

Sunshine

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

1 posted 2004-11-11 06:03 PM

So many reasons,
so many sides,
to do, or not to do...
poetry such as this,
hopefully,
will bring a country,
united.

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

2 posted 2004-11-11 06:08 PM

thanks, Sunshine for reading and commenting, I was afraid this one was just going to sink into Thursday's sunset

Whether on the shoal or on the shore,
I'll seek the lighthouse evermore.

Ratleader

Member Rara Avis

since 2003-01-23

Posts 7026
Visiting Earth on a Guest Pass

3 posted 2004-11-11 09:06 PM

Indeed it is, and a viewpoint that's very much needed!

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