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bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

0 posted 2000-02-02 12:31 PM

-dead and rose-
Slain in mud, red river debris.
Bullet grids clapped in quiet street.
Helmet hardly helped at all.
Which dead kid owned that ball?

Shiny purple bubble
popped under tank treads.
Frozen clockwork,
sprung open, dead.
Fed to the ground
in coils and gears.
Bombed rubble,
plants grow through chairs.

For all those who have died,
I place this rose in the water for you.
Victims and lost survivors of all kinds --
accident and war.

A kiss absent thorns.
Standing, bobbing,
Red and glowing with sun.
We love you. We do.
We miss you, all of you.
Sinking, sunken.
We love you. All of you.
We miss you. Yes, we do.
One petal left facing the sky.
We love you. Yes, we love you.
We love you. We miss you.
The sky grows clouds.
The sun has bowed.
Flower, hottom; gone.

Meadowmuse
Member Elite

since 1999-12-27

Posts 3263

1 posted 2000-02-02 12:45 PM

Tragedy, irony, love, death, hate, war...it all leaves so many questions to be unanswered. Fine delivery here. Nice contrast work.

Claire

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

2 posted 2000-02-02 01:00 AM

Thanks, Claire. This is sort of a companion piece to the poem I posted yesterday, SEE AGENT. I realized here I was mourning the loss of these people who died in flight 261. And while, yes, it's a horrible waste of life, so is war, so is a million atrocities going daily in countries that don't even make the news. So I wanted to widen my scope of grief, I guess.

Mike

Denise

Moderator

Member Seraphic

since 1999-08-22

Posts 22648

3 posted 2000-02-02 11:03 AM

Such a heartache,any violent, tragic, preventable death. This is a great tibute to all those people who died needlessly.

Denise

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

4 posted 2000-02-03 12:10 PM

Thank you. Even the best I could do pales to what should be done. In loving memory.

M.

hoot_owl_rn
Member Patricius

since 1999-07-05

Posts 10750
Glen Hope, PA USA

5 posted 2000-02-03 10:12 AM

Wow...this is much said in this piece.

bsquirrel

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-01-03

Posts 7855

6 posted 2002-05-22 07:26 PM

Thanks, hoot!

She said burn ... together.
-TON

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