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Open Poetry #48

Tragedy

Balladeer

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Member Empyrean

since 1999-06-05

Posts 25505
Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA

0 posted 2012-12-20 11:16 PM

Twenty children died last week,
Cut down by madman's gun.
The headlines screamed with horror
At the deed that had been done.

200 children died last week
By parent's right to choose
Lives snuffed out by a scalpel
But it didn't make the news.

voice2bheard
Senior Member

since 2007-10-19

Posts 591
New York

1 posted 2012-12-21 02:20 AM

Completely agree that noone does anything about "legal deaths" yet, 20 children who of course were alive, will make the news in an instant! Well put! Of course sympathy goes out to all those lives lost!

Kate

2dalimit
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since 2000-02-08

Posts 2228
Mississippi coast

2 posted 2012-12-21 06:59 AM

Excellent!

Thanks,
Melton

mellowdown
Junior Member

since 2012-12-19

Posts 30
usa

3 posted 2012-12-21 10:54 AM

A true mirror of the "tragedy" of Man, and willing blindness,

a poem is a sigh
a melody of song
a musical lullaby

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

4 posted 2012-12-23 09:09 PM

Fine writing...I like a man that posseses truth inside his heart and shares it with others...James

Honeybee
Member Ascendant

since 1999-12-26

Posts 5372
Ontario, CANADA

5 posted 2012-12-23 11:48 PM

Poignantly written, my friend. It is ironic and sad indeed. A shame it has to be this way in society

"Poetry is not an opinion expressed. It
is a song that rises from a bleeding
wound...or a smiling mouth"
~Kahlil Gibran~

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