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For high school students today, it is only history
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For high school students today, it is only history |
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icebox Member Elite
since 2003-05-03
Posts 4383in the shadows 
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On The First Anniversary My Heart Finally Broke (a repost) Still, I hear the pipes sing Amazing Grace I hear them in my dreams I hear the screams every day, months of cadenced march out of an open pit mine of souls, all day long and through the night in and out of mind until my heart ran out of song. In today's Remembrance bells ring, performers sing and everybody's priests ask gods for treats. Each name a moment held in all solemnity on edge to slip into eternity; pomp and circumstance, a ceremony's tears and choking fears that this will mean an end to the beginning of the years we mark remembering the dead, living dead names all run together, labels on one giant blended bleeding soul. If one more plastic politician says, ‘Let's roll,' I think I will be sick. The dead can sleep, where is peace for heart and soul that could bring quiet to the living? We mourned a year. We buried buttons and a watch, a rock, handfuls of dirt and ash, a shoe or two, some bone fragments, photographs in empty caskets, memories in sleepless nights full of empty arms and empty beds, tears in empty hearts. It's time to leave the past. For some, we became as Death in a time to stalk revenge cold and crafted with precision in deserts, fields and mountains, where we are hated for existing, where gods are left with questions, where evil breeds in men, where each victory brings two graves and self-serving politicians bend the world back into their greed. So, the need, the questions linger empty, there are no answers and so, the killings never end. There is no grief beyond the love of that which death can steal. There is no deal to make, no memorial to shake the monstrous memories, smell, taste of human flesh and blood in ashes mixed with fuel melted steel vaporized concrete, grit that clogged our eyes a blessing in disguise; shame of hoping winds would change, the dream's there every day, turn back and turn away run, no where to go, who died when there is nothing left to hold but memories' deadly clouds thick choking terror floating wild in toxic air, horror grown so full that vision's lost, sounds of bodies hitting ground just beyond the reach of sight within the sounds, quick claws of fright, no where to hide. No where to hide. ©2003, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 by icebox (written, September 11, 2002; edited as above) |
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Bluesy Socrateaser Member Elite
since 2002-11-07
Posts 2417In The Mirror |
Every day is the first day of another year Charley...and how they fly in time and in perfect formation. ...just bein' Bluesy |
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BluesSerenade Member Patricius
since 2001-10-23
Posts 10549By the Seaside |
We shall never forget. |
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JamesMichael Member Empyrean
since 1999-11-16
Posts 33336Kapolei, Hawaii, USA |
As someone said...that's why they call it the past...james |
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Lori Grosser Rhoden Member Patricius
since 2009-10-10
Posts 10202Fair to middlin' of nowhere |
Charley, I am impressed with your ability to capture the horror of it all. I found myself holding my breath so as not to breath in toxic fumes. Watching it on TV lets the mind protect us from what we cannot comprehend. But poetry will not let us escape from what it makes us feel. ~L |
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Poet In Pink Senior Member Posts 1066 MI |
Your words so poignant & touching ~ For some it may just be history...BUT for many others it is and forever will be something much more. Thank you for sharing this ~ Alana |
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Marchmadness Member Rara Avis
since 2007-09-16
Posts 9271So. El Monte, California |
Powerful words, Mr. Ice. |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
And Charly, nothing will ever change, especially now with who our same ole politicians are plus the way it is all about how they think and plan.nothing changes how sad a nation we have become.jo Perry aka late Arrival |
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latearrival Member Ascendant
since 2003-03-21
Posts 5499Florida |
Charly, you always post it right, Best to you latearrival/martyjo |
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LeeJ Member Patricius
since 2003-06-19
Posts 13296 |
Hi Charley, good to read you again, this was filled with so many great lines, each one better than the last...thank you for sharing your heart filled voice...words that we should all heed.... |
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