Open Poetry #34 |
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JFK/SIR LANCELOT? |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
JFK/SIR LANCELOT? forty-one years, today, have passed opened our eyes cleared up delusions confusions of one man’s perfection, rejection, convention though many misconceptions have been divulged still greater questions remain the glory, glamour, clamor have subsided, some having been set aside while being astride perplexity, complexity, ambidextrous clarity a nation in mourning over sniper/sniper’s bullets in mourning over beauty’s loss a severed head of a government’s body was it the beginning of chaos, a tossing of values, a lack of direction, beyond detection, while the remaining body and its limbs deteriorate in full view, yet stealthily, cell by cell chip by chip blip by blip? do we not mourn far greater tragedies ©November 22, 2004 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 |
Dang, I was young back then... and the whole world changed right before my eyes. |
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Enchantress Member Empyrean
since 2001-08-14
Posts 35113Canada eh. |
In a split second the world as we knew it changed forever. |
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Seymour Tabin Member Empyrean
since 1999-07-07
Posts 31720Tamarac Fla |
VAS The world is in constant movement. Good write. |
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RSWells Member Elite
since 2001-06-17
Posts 2533 |
"was it the beginning of chaos, a tossing of values" We are still paying for that coup. We still are barred access to the records. We are yet governed by those involved. Thanks for the reminder. |
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Balladeer
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Member Empyrean
since 1999-06-05
Posts 25505Ft. Lauderdale, Fl USA |
Yes, we mourn greater tragedies but it was a tragedy nontheless. JFK was so admired and loved that his murder created the "fall of innocence" in which the country has never recovered. He stood for what was good and right with the world. With his intelligence, handsomeness, wealth and charisma he represented what any man would love to aspire to....and he was gunned down from one day to the next. When good can be destroyed so easily by evil, it shakes one badly. With what it did to the United States, it was a tragedy of incredible proportions.. ...and your poem is excellent! |
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VAS Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450Oregon |
Yes, it is almost as if that day began a multiplicity of tragedies. And yes, I realize this world has had horrid tragedies all of its existence, save its first few days. The holocaust, the U.S. Civil War and many, many far too numerous to mention throughout the history of mankind, but from the standpoint of my lifetime, this certainly seems to have been a beginning of the "fall of the new Rome." Whether on the shoal or on the shore, |
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JL Member Ascendant
since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128Texas, USA |
Flood of memories. Enjoyed. JL |
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passing shadows Member Empyrean
since 1999-08-26
Posts 45577displaced |
well done! |
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