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Sat Sep-22-07 02:22 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poem Thread, 9/22/07 |
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"Suppose"
the ghetto stars pinned to cloth could lift from history like angels soaring to the sky. The air which holds cinders of Bhuddist robes, burned hair of ones who doused themselves, set fire, suppose the plume of smoke becomes clear and white.
What did I say? I said: what if Sarejavo is not burning and no city is burning and in the market square no human head is impaled upon a stick or mute limbs strew on streets and no fingers exist without hands.
Suppose grenades side with sunlight. Bullets in boxes become chocolate wrapped in gold foil, and in Guatemala, the men come back from their disappearance, and in the morning, wake in their own beds because love is the white moon and light moves in us like blood.
Yes there will be holes left in clothes but not from ripped stars, only from wear, to let the darkness out.
—Maureen Micus Crisick
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Sat Sep-22-07 02:27 PM
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1. That's a great anti-war poem |
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Or maybe just anti-violence. That's my kind of poem.
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Sat Sep-22-07 02:30 PM
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2. Hmmmm. Stick around then, honey. |
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Sat Sep-22-07 02:45 PM
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3. That's a great poem on the costs of losses of war. |
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Sat Sep-22-07 02:57 PM
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4. I've always thought of this as more of a condemnation of hatred and violence. |
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Which, of course, are some of the root contributors to war.
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Sat Sep-22-07 11:31 PM
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11. This has been one of my all-time favorites for almost ten years. |
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