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Open Poetry #32

Marines in Mesopotamia

RMW
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0 posted 2004-05-07 02:42 PM

Marines in Mesopotamia

With war acquainted
camels blink
and rhythmically continue chewing.
In the distance
battle tanks rumble north along a route
once devoted to spice merchants.
Caravans clank into the fertile, soft extent
of the Tigris and Euphrates River valleys.
On the horizon, dust humps
as artillery rounds thud near a ziggurat.
"What's that?", entombed, a driver asks,
as slowly, then, from west to east
the turret of the main gun sweeps
to better peep into the mound of artifacts.
Youthful eyes consult a map.
"Ur!" the sergeant of the Abram shouts.

Footnote: Ur: the ancestral home of the partriarch, Abram, later called Abraham.

RMW

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1 posted 2004-05-07 03:02 PM

Footnotes of footsteps over time.
Well done, Sir...

it is SO good to have you home again.

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2 posted 2004-05-07 07:02 PM

That was pretty ill. (ill=really cool..)
O.o

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3 posted 2004-05-07 09:52 PM

Bob

I'm always impressed with your ability to take your knowledge into art.

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