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Open Poetry #35

View from the 32nd Floor

Master
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since 1999-08-18

Posts 1867
Boston, MA

0 posted 2005-07-02 01:23 AM

I rise from my bed at night.
Still drowsy, I’m staring into
the fifteen-hundred-thousand-eyed
city, as though from an airplane window.
Fifteen-hundred-thousand candles light
the cave in Yad Vashem.*
I flick on the switch. Tonight,
I’m just one of them.
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* The Children's Memorial, in Yad Vashem, hollowed out from an underground cavern, is a tribute to the approximately 1.5 million Jewish children who perished during the Holocaust. Memorial candles, a customary Jewish tradition to remember the dead, are reflected infinitely in a dark and somber space, creating the impression of millions of stars shining in the firmament.

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passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

Posts 45577
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1 posted 2005-07-02 03:25 AM

wow

this is powerful!

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