The Shore

Gold cherry

By socialeaf

Tue, 29 May 2018
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8 comments
 

How will we

try to reason

 

                       this wretched

                       lapse in empathy?

 

What will plaques

on beaches read

 

                       when today's

                       consigned to history?

 

What endless fields

for the nameless dead

 

                       will admonish us

                       to never more? 

 

What poppies or poetry

will remind us of

 

                                                                           the migrants

                                                                           on the shore?

 

 

 

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Comments

Submitted by airyfairy on

A very sad and thoughtful response to the IP.  Yes, we are selective about who we choose to remember.  

Submitted by socialeaf on

We are. These are sad times. Thank you airyfairy. 

 

Submitted by Insertponceyfre... on

You are on a roll socialeaf - second day in a row! This is our Facebook and Twitter Pick of the Day. Please share/rewteet if you liked it too

 

Submitted by socialeaf on

Thank you, wow! I don't often do rhyming work and I was worried that my attempt here would undermine the gravity of the subject. 

 

Submitted by agnosticnun on

Sparse and perfect response to the IP. And a necessary topic.

And the rhyming was so subtle and clever I didn’t notice on the first read, then made me appreciate the poem all the more on the second.

Kristi

Submitted by socialeaf on

Thank you Kristi. 

 

Submitted by Parson Thru on

Spot-on, socialeaf.

I expect we'll be damned by history. I hope do anyway.

I love the way the format laps like waves on the shore. Human flotsam.

Parson Thru

Submitted by socialeaf on

Thanks again Parson Thru. Really appreciate you reading my stuff and your perceptive encouraging words on it. Really means a lot from a writer of your ability. Cheers:)