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Midnitesun
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0 posted 2005-08-05 11:01 PM



have a nice weekend
thank you, and good night

it follows the silent roll call
15 tonight

and after this announcement
you are free

to do whatever,
for the night is as young
as those soldiers faces,
the ones I just did see on TV

and I curse all the powers that be,
the powers that be represent
  insanity,
not me

and how many mothers must cry tonight,
wringing their hands and hearts in agony?

thank you, and good night


© Copyright 2005 Kathleen Kacy Stafford - All Rights Reserved
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1 posted 2005-08-05 11:07 PM


Goodnight Kacy...you speak from the heart always, and I really do admire that.  Thank you!!  
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2 posted 2005-08-05 11:08 PM


dont want to hear the cries of mothers
or the cries of babies anymore
the pain  the cries
the unjustice  
god please make everything right
erase the memories of the pain
that was wrong never again to be
in sight
so love and forgiveness can fill hearts
and give birth to life  as life was meant to be

My spirit will rise
above the sea~
There will be no drowning
of my soul or me~

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3 posted 2005-08-05 11:25 PM


thank you Martie, for your gentle reply

Mcgroves, yes...to find some way to end the insanity of hatred and war, to move toward becoming a kinder gentler species

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4 posted 2005-08-05 11:47 PM


dearest Kacy...you carry the weight of the world on your gentle shoulders...
we would be voiceless if not for those like you who refuse to just accept what "they" tell us we cant change.

your spirit is lovely girlie.

I'll bare the brunt of your long buried pain
I don't mind helping you out ...
But I want you to remember my name

Alanis

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5 posted 2005-08-06 12:22 PM


JM, carrying the world..is that why I always have a sore neck? kidding aside, I cringe watching national and world news, wondering if humans will ever get past the killing fields
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6 posted 2005-08-06 07:09 AM


­" Now, if these men do not die well, it will be a black matter for the king that led them to it.
(King Henry V, act IV, scene I, William Shakespeare)

Grrrrrrrr
Did these sons die well for their king?
Did they do him proud by their deaths?
Are there gold stars in their home windows tonight
That somehow might  brighten this black matter?

But...
"*Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind"
and...

"*Mother whose heart hung humble as a button
On the bright splendid shroud of your son,
Do not weep.
War is kind."

Kacy, what you are feeling , I also feel...and so it seems do,
and have others...others pressed by need to write their feelings down.. all sadly aware,
They then, we now, of our seeming powerlessness (is that a word?)
But I am glad you wrote this, and am glad I read it...

Perhaps that is the key, to write feelings down, about situations
That seem out of personal control....perhaps the reception of alike thoughts
empowers the reader?

I have a big mouth, I blame that on poetry, it makes me think and talk a lot....sorry

---------------ice/ford
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(*Stephen Crane -excerpt- Do not weep, maiden, for war is kind)
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7 posted 2005-08-06 10:42 AM


I love your big poetic mouthy replies, Ford

It seems that every generation is doomed to repeat these war whines. Only the names change.

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8 posted 2005-08-07 01:15 AM


Nice writing...James
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