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As Bullets Fly

And As Bullets Fly On this land sun often shines, in afternoons there is between, deep shadows and light a multi, hued, enchanting greenness it is as day and night seek ownership of the earth. On dull days nature loses its colour and there is no strife between light and dark, only gloom, if that is a colour. I drive home in a tunnel of grief moving through doom, and blue news, I have just heard of a shooting in a school in USA, 30 people dead. This cursed second revision. On the front window, tears from parents who have lost their children. I whisper, when will it ever stop? As I lament my old age, I feel useless, after all I have lived through the seasons of years; the youngsters murdered shall never grew to get old.

Copyright © | Year Posted 2012




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Date: 12/14/2012 6:32:00 PM
Dear Jan, It's a horrifying day. I live in Newtown where the shootings occurred just down the road. Little children in little coats being innocent. I'm looking for words, but they don't come. lvoe, Kathy
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 12/15/2012 10:25:00 AM
I´m struggling with this tragedy, it doesn´t make sense a beautiful place turned into a killing field of childtren
Date: 12/14/2012 3:12:00 PM
This is a poem that could have been written at least 50 years ago... and reissued with full meaning every few years in the meantime... and unfortunately for the next 50 years or 100 years or... and it never ceases... "When will they ever learn..." Terry
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Jan Oskar Hansen
Date: 12/14/2012 3:57:00 PM
thank you Terry...it is a mystery to me, a tragic one

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