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China reaches out for power
Over land and across the seas
Raging fevers crush the flowers
Of fragile weak humanity
Nothing known can quell the wake
As ripples drown the soul
Visions of this tragic fate
Interred as church bells toll
Rest for those no longer living
Under a blanket of broken sod
Sins without forgiving.. left to the will of God

Copyright © | Year Posted 2020




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Date: 4/5/2020 12:34:00 PM
short but powerful ! a sense of classicism here linked with modernism - like Yeats..... You might read my poem on the same topic - Back to Belfast
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Jane Vandoe
Date: 5/5/2020 1:41:00 AM
Hello Charles 'May the 4th be with you'... I just figured out how to reply to comments on this site... thank you so much... JVD
Date: 3/29/2020 6:45:00 AM
Thank you for this wonderful poem. Hope and god is sometimes all we have. May you stay safe. JC Hawkens
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Jane Vandoe
Date: 5/5/2020 1:41:00 AM
Hello JC 'May the 4th be with you'... I just figured out how to reply to comments on this site... thank you so much... JVD
Date: 3/14/2020 4:02:00 AM
We are all in His hands, which gives me hope too Jane.
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Jane Vandoe
Date: 5/5/2020 1:41:00 AM
Hello Caren 'May the 4th be with you'... I just figured out how to reply to comments on this site... thank you so much... JVD

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