Sherry Chandler » A Poem for World Poetry Day
A Poem for World Poetry Day
and the second day of our fourth year of war in Iraq:
Rally
Above snowbanks of flowering pear,
maple shards glare white
as the faces on the courthouse steps,
where ranks in flag-striped t-shirts sing.
An inch of ice six weeks ago
and half a state in dark
silence couldn’t stop
the endless streaming war chant.Now river birch bleeds from broken limbs,
brush piles of redbud stacked beside the curb
put out thick bloom. A robin’s built her nest
in there, set her clutch of sky-blue eggs
low and open, waiting for the chipper.
I wrote this poem in April after the war began in March. It resides at The Pedestal Magazine.
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3 Comments
1. Terry replies at 21st March 2006, 1:11 pm :
silence couldn’t stop/ the endless streaming war chant.
So very powerful. Thank you for sharing this.
2. Deane replies at 21st March 2006, 1:46 pm :
Great poem! I want to have written it!
3. sherry replies at 21st March 2006, 3:43 pm :
Thanks to both of you, Deane and Terry.
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