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Open Poetry #40
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Huan Yi
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since 2004-10-12
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Waukegan
0 posted 2007-03-18 04:50 PM

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For all the beer
And laughter
There is a silence
In these men
With memories
And numbers
On their arms

Even sons
Can not pierce that wall
Between now
And the then they knew
When young

Of breaking stones
And beatings
That left more than one
On that ground
Never again to stir

Or those showers
Into which
Innocent battalions marched
Never to return


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© Copyright 2007 John Pawlik - All Rights Reserved
steavenr
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since 2003-11-17
Posts 4058
1 posted 2007-03-18 04:56 PM

evocative, thought-provoking write...powerful...so very well done...simply stirring...
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Louisiana
2 posted 2007-03-29 12:31 PM

Even sons
Can not pierce that wall
Between now
And the then they knew
When young

Some are trying to protect... others can't bear to remember... You make our hearts weep for both... and for the sons.
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