Repost for Midnitesun's Shadows challenge

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Open Poetry #22

Repost for Midnitesun's Shadows challenge

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2002-09-10 02:24 PM

Are There Shadows?

are there shadows in the world
where once lives had been
are there shadows
are there shadows

in the morning,
commuters rose
stock routine
met the day
little knowing,
post the dawning,
they’d soon be going away

a stop light
a train whistle
a honking horn
business as usual
that September morn

drop Johnny at school,
“Good-bye” to little Sue,
push the elevator button
as you always do

all hopes and aspirations
rose into a rising mist
in steam they were carried
or was it smoke in the list,

those two great towers,
that rose as emblems,
crumbled to the breaches
where they’d been given birth

dreams and visions,
beneath paper confetti and steel
shredding each element,
in our mourning, might we heal?

©August 11, 2002

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

Midnitesun

Member Empyrean

since 2001-05-18

Posts 28647
Gaia

1 posted 2002-09-10 02:49 PM

Those are some sad shadows. Hopefully, they have found a safe haven to rest now.

CSKpoet
Senior Member

since 2002-07-12

Posts 845
Island in Paradise

2 posted 2002-09-10 02:50 PM

a wonderful tribute for a tragedy that will take a long while to heal
hugs, Cher

Poetry is:
Passion, imagination and intellect running together.

Aloha with warmest regards, Cheryl Stewart Koomoa

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

3 posted 2002-09-10 02:54 PM

Yes, profoundly sad shadows that will take a long while to heal for a wound that deep must heal from the inside out.

Thank you both for you words.

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

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