a small town called Belsan

This forum is for poems that are in tribute to an event, tragedy, person, etc. Subforums are memorials to PoetryPages members who have crossed the rainbow bridge.

Moderator: moonflower

Forum rules
This forum is for poems that are in tribute to an event, tragedy, person, etc.
This forum does not autoprune.
Post Reply
User avatar
debab
baffling at the hint
Posts: 128
Joined: Sun Mar 31, 2002 12:01 am
Location: Illinois

a small town called Belsan

Post by debab » Tue Sep 07, 2004 8:43 pm

I will live, bear witness -
I would carry grief for you.
This will not lighten
your load or pain, I can offer
only this -
words
you are lost in
bleak darkness, in suffering.
The whole world watches, breaking hearts
dank dirt hitting
wrapped
plastic bodies, children.
Cocooned butterflies,
brilliant colors run to crimson tears
answers absent, arms curl to grasp
silent air, burdens shouldered
flowers droop and fade.


Lost o lost.
I light a candle for the unknown to find a way.
>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<:::>><<

...Yet the stones remain less real to those who cannot
name them, or read the mute syllables graven in silica.
To see a red stone is less than seeing it as jasper—
metamorphic quartz, cousin to the flint the Kiowa
carved as arrowheads.
To name is to know and remember
_____________'Words', Dana Gioia







~*~

User avatar
heinzs
The Fat Cat
Posts: 8419
Joined: Tue Dec 18, 2001 12:01 am
Tag line: Do no harm
Location: Novato, CA
Contact:

Post by heinzs » Sat Sep 11, 2004 7:55 pm

We must all bear witness, Deb!

:cry: :cry:
**************************************
An' it harm none, do what ye will. Blessed Be.
Image
***************************************
My Poet's Page Archive | Topics I've started

User avatar
Spazway
Lost in a Dream
Posts: 1051
Joined: Fri Sep 03, 2004 10:06 pm
Location: Barrie, Ontario, Canada
Contact:

Post by Spazway » Sat Sep 11, 2004 10:51 pm

A very touching tribute, Deb.

Post Reply

Return to “In Tribute”

Who is online

Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 3 guests