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    Parker Owens
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Disasters, Delights and Other Detours - 73. Crisis

This is a topical poem in an unfamiliar form. My thanks to @AC Benus who helped to make it better than its original version.

Crisis

 

There’s much I cannot understand;

how hearty bumblebees contrive to fly,

why albatrosses rarely come to land,

yet meteors transcend the sky,

and how upon an uneventful day

while eight whole minutes spanned

again an innocent died where he lay.

 

No genius can this mortal brain

make any claim in nature to possess,

but surely to the simplest mind it’s plain

subjecting some to great distress,

protecting and enforcing as one must,

yet with others refrain,

an issue will arise that could combust.

 

What canny leader could not see

that unjust apprehension would ignite

resentment and its tinder-dry debris,

across the land to blaze so bright

to turn outdated notions into ash

perchance to truly free

men born beneath the shadow of the lash.


If you have raves or rants or suggestions for improvement, this is the place to leave them. Thank you for reading.
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Valkyrie
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You treated a difficult topic very well.  Thank you for posting this.  :hug: 

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1 hour ago, Wayne Gray said:

Well written piece, Parker. Thanks for posting it.

I’m grateful you took the time to consider this. 

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2 hours ago, Mikiesboy said:

i can't say what i'd like to ... but thanks for posting this.

I’m grateful you read this. xo P

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3 hours ago, AC Benus said:

This is a powerful poem, Parker. I'm glad you posted it

Thank you very much for reading it. 

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3 hours ago, Valkyrie said:

You treated a difficult topic very well.  Thank you for posting this.  :hug: 

Thanks. It’s so hard to write about.

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Geron Kees

Trenchant commentary on a short moment with large repercussions.

 

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On 7/10/2020 at 12:13 AM, Geron Kees said:

Trenchant commentary on a short moment with large repercussions.

 

Thanks for your response and taking time to read this. I’m sorry I took so long to reply; I apologize. The echoes of those eight minutes will sound for decades. 

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