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Too Impossible and more |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
I sent a friend a poem titled "Are There Shadows" of which you may read below, down the board a piece. He responded with:" Very moving. Yet I am so overwhelmed with the events of that day that I wish I could erase it from my memory. So no further comments." This set about thoughts that led to the following two poems. Too Impossible it’s as impossible to erase from our minds as it is to erase from our history lives shattered lives that mattered every one dreams wrenched hearts drenched in tears of overcome upon a precipice our nation stood and someone ready at the pinball machine in the course of human events someone reached, pulled, released tumbling through the chute little brute was needed warnings unheeded with thoughts “They wouldn’t dare! not there, not anywhere!” an evil laugh a taunting sneer a raucous jeer mocked every tear rocked every fear as flags rose high “Just you try! that again, you’ll never win Your trail of sin will only spin and pound you in eternity’s din. ©August 12, 2002 Snapping Turtle are we a snapping turtle coated in shell strong as steel put a-reel by some spinning hand just waiting for spin to cease that we may get a grip and let it rip from our jaws of agony ever ready now to stick our necks out to shred the ream out of attackers that dare too close even as we retreat to fields of wheat, woods and meadows beside the sea feigning calm feigning rest will the test still come? what will be turtle soup or shredded flies? ©August 12, 2002 Whether on the shoal or on the shore, |
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Sunshine
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-25
Posts 63354Listening to every heart |
I hope, Virginia, that you will be sharing these pieces for publication in your hometown paper, or at any memorial function you may be attending in the next few weeks. After reading your other piece yesterday, I wondered for awhile if we have nothing more to show for our resolve in ending conflicts than a showing of our red-white-blue patriotism... I hope so. I hope people begin showing compassion, realizing, it is one man that leads the armies...and not the armies leading the man... so many complexities to one simple request... "Love one another, in My name." |
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