Ohio

Ohio

Shot down dead,
Words that pierce as the bullets themselves.
"What else must one do?" one thinks.
In a single blink,
Flowers rise,
In another,
Flowers lie.
In this bowed gesture,
Scents of feeling,
Sweep over all.
We shall all fall,
To be held up by the ground,
Staring at sky where clouds of heaven are found.

Reviews

[John Alexander McFadyen]

This sounds like an open question. Why would someone enter a mall or a music festival and simply shoot strangers at random. Answer, because they can, plain and simple. This short freeverse begs the question now asked all too often!

[jacob erin-cilberto]

this is amazing...so tragic what happened in both El Paso and in Dayton....
yes, flowers rise but then lie in state...Crosby Stills, Nash and Young sang about Kent State..."four dead in Ohio" now a new song eclipses that one..."nine dead in Ohio"
when will it stop? there is so much hate in the world, so much senseless killing..
and staring at the clouds of heaven, we will eventually all lie on the ground or in the ground, looking up and wondering whatever happened to love and understanding.
j.

[Mark Mendoza]

Thank you j. I was just reading your peice on El Paso and felt the power of the way our growth has gotten so tangled. These are strange times, srange times. I'll do all I can do and that is live with the love and understanding I know.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

and your gentle and very poetic nature, as well.

[Coyote Poetry]

Another sad day for our world. El Paso and Dayton. Hard to understand the killing of the innocence. I pray everyday. We can stop the madness.
Coyote

[Mark Mendoza]

Maybe it's not as mad as it seems. This is my hope.

[Coyote Poetry]

It is madness. Why kill strangers? Living hearts will not sing no-more.

[Mark Mendoza]

I do not doubt that there is madness in this world. Madness just is not always what it appears to be.

[Coyote Poetry]

Never a excuse to kill another. I was a soldier and I regret every bad thing I had to do. Hate is hate.

[Mark Mendoza]

Hate is hate and there is nothing wrong with feeling that way. We are to feel how we do.