Suffering

Suffering              by Sami Khalil

I pause to catch glimpses of passing clouds

Inching across Gentian skies and pink

Over rubble and dust, rambling white shrouds

Where aching sounds and lives lost in a blink.

 

I cause my wandering mind to meander

Skipping shadows casted and dreamy wings

Where blades of grass do sway and hopes clamber

Sounds of thunder and drifted lightening slings.

 

I spy a flock of sheep tarried, stranded

Nowhere to run from the butcher at hand

With first harvest of souls and pride branded

Reaping his hate-filled face, yielding quicksand.

 

I rub my eyes in disbelief wondering

How to rehearse farewell songs to suffering.

Reviews

[Thomas W Case]

Well crafted. Powerful and poignant. You bring this home.

[Sami Khalil]

Wowzy woooo! Thank you so much dear poet and friend for this wonderful review. Glad you liked it.

[IC]

We live in a modern age where suffering just continues to abound. We have grown our world to great heights of knowledge and technology, yet still resort to basic human instincts of war to deal with grievances between people’s and countries. And it’s always the innocents that are caught in the crossfire and endure most of the suffering. We can be very cruel masters of our world and the fates of others. A very timely subject matter, Sami. You do these thoughtfully themed sonnets very well. 🙏🏻

[Sami Khalil]

I agree wholeheartedly; you have summed it up marvelously. It is indeed as you say. Thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us.

[Anita Frader]

The last line is magic. Not sure it's true meaning but for my own entertainment I'll take it to mean a final swan song in a sense. A last hurrah. Before an inevitable end

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! So true and well articulated. Thank you kindly dear poet and friend for this wonderful review and sharing. Pleased you like it.

[Betty Hermelee]

in my opinion, death is better than suffering, those white shrouds remind us of wars fought and innocents murdered.... over dusty earth where nothing grows. no life there either....and the slaughter of sheep... precious animals, minding their own business....deaht happens so quickly that there is no time for farewell songs... very deep with little grass, and only in our mind's eye....
Warmly, B

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! So true and well articulated dear poet and friend. You nailed it on the head. Sad but true. Million thank yous for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us

[Betty Hermelee]

You're very welcome Sam
Warmly, B

[Sami Khalil]

Muchly obliged ......

[Poetic Beauty]

Farewell song to the suffering is bold line. The images produced in this piece are unsettling and I can’t fathom the magnitude of these real life tragedies

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! So true and well said dear poet and friend. Sad but true what is going on in the world at large. Thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us.

[Poetic Beauty]

The news tends to overwhelm me so I only tend to watch it very briefly each day and some days not at all

[Sami Khalil]

Same here. Thank you kindly

[Poetic Beauty]

You are welcome

[Sami Khalil]

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[Einstein Noodle]

farewell song to suffering ... seems they are not meant to be ... human nature has a way with falling into fists of greed, rage, steel and cold hearts ... enough suffering to satisfy the beast one would think .. but on a positive note ... it is suffering of innocence, me thinks, that teaches us valuable lessons and changes our character ..patience, empathy and Faith can all grow when suffering begs the question "Why me?" ... and of course ... we always have war don't we :(((((((((((((((((
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[FPW]

Can't help but think this relates to the world at present, the ongoing madness that is happening in parts that threatens to plunge us all into a dark age of war and suffering. We live in crazy times where death and suffering are being allowed to occur needlessly. We have come out of the pandemic with a touch of madness, I think. Some lovely descriptive lines used here. Aside from Shakespeare, I have never read a Sonnet, so a first for this nrwcomer to poetry.

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! So true and well articulated dear poet. You have nailed it on the head. Thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us.

[Cherrie]

...rubble and dust...harvest of souls...farewell song to suffering...
What powerful images thar convey need for the human spirit --to do-

[Sami Khalil]

Wowzy woooo! So true and well articulated dear poet and friend. We do need action on the local and world stage, to end wars, to end sufferings of people, to end endless loss of humanity. Thank you so much for taking the time and effort.

[John Sullivan]

Beautifully done. Our meandering minds contemplate so much, and nature has it's beauty. Glad I read this one.

[Sami Khalil]

Wow! So true and well articulated. Thank you kindly for sharing your thoughts and experiences with us. See you soon.

[NormaZ]

A beautiful poem as always! I like how you wrote both a peaceful scene, alternating with something hard, like the first two lines are peaceful, like pink clouds, then the rubble and white shrouds.

[Sami Khalil]

Wow
Thank you so much dear poet and friend for this wonderful review. Glad you like it.