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Heaven Or Hell


Where is heaven, what have we done
Why are we abandoned in hell
When can we stop using a gun
Whose children next do we farewell
What demon has set this mad spell
Littleton Columbine high school
Virginia tech was so cruel
Redlake senior high was another
How can heaven be I’m no fool
Please stop the tears of a mother

Copyright © Shane Cooper | Year Posted 2015

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November 3, 2015 at 9:52 PM

Shane, :) Congratulations on having your poem featured in the soups, Home Page. ~SKAT LOVE~

November 3, 2015 at 1:35 PM

Growing up in Denver, we stayed away from Littleton because there was a bad element living there. Evidently there is still bad workings going on there. Congrats, daver

March 2, 2015 at 7:00 AM

This is a powerful poem Shane, which has inspired me to pen something along similar lines. Many thanks for the input.

March 3, 2015 at 12:24 AM

Shane, your poem inspired my poem entitled 'Loving Opposites'. Thanks again for the inspiration.

March 2, 2015 at 7:17 AM

Thank you David. I am glad the my work has given you inspiration. This is a topic that I do not think is explored enough by poetry. Every voice against violence counts. Thanks again for visiting my work. Love Shane

February 15, 2015 at 10:38 AM

Shane~ Congratulations on the win. It's an honor to read every poem In Dr Ram's DAZAIN ME contest. *Skat LOVE*

February 15, 2015 at 1:42 PM

Thank you for your congrats. love Shane xxx

February 14, 2015 at 8:27 PM

WOW Shane such a powerful message. I often wonder how our world became such a mess. Janet

February 15, 2015 at 2:58 AM

Hi Janet, I suppose if one believes it was in the garden of Eden. Myself I know deep in my soul that we each have the capacity to create our own heaven or hell, and that the world needs more people like broken wings and Eileen to swing the balance. this is the truth of poetry.

February 8, 2015 at 1:10 PM

No worries mate : )

February 8, 2015 at 1:00 PM

Congrats my friend

February 8, 2015 at 1:08 PM

Thanks Tim, Sorry I have not been by for a while, Just a lot on the plate at the moment. Promise to mae ammends soon. love Shane

February 6, 2015 at 8:21 AM

Heaven is vanishing with the advance in age... more and more mothers are in pain... nice pen Shane... belated wishes on your win... regards, nad!

February 6, 2015 at 8:27 AM

thank you Nadiya for stopping in. Love Shane xxx

February 5, 2015 at 10:32 AM

This is a poem that seeks to find faith. The soul and heart are ready to believe, but the mind hesitates. Emile.

February 6, 2015 at 8:40 AM

Hi Emile, I find peoples inhumanity incomprehensible, i could sooner understand the nature of a singularity than this. I do not know that my heart is moved by an omnipotent "god in heaven" who would choose to let such things happen. I know the argument of free will but that also does not wash. Unlike our friend broken wings I could never come to terms and find closure by being told god needed another angel. love Shane

Constance La France

February 4, 2015 at 8:00 AM

Shane, congratulations on your win in the contest with this deep and profound poem and thanks for visiting my poetry ~~

February 4, 2015 at 1:17 PM

Hi, Thank you for the congrats. I enjoy reading your poetry it is both beautiful and tragic. You write from your heart which is true poetry. love Shane xxx

Michelle Mac Donald

February 3, 2015 at 10:57 PM

Congratulations on your well deserved win! A powerful, mind riveting write, Shane. Some times the world feels so messed up. Beastly, cruel, and senseless. Unimaginably terrifying for these children. A while back I had written about the Dawson College shootings. I had also thought, "What demon has set this mad spell". Keep well, best wishes, Mikki

February 3, 2015 at 11:04 PM

Thanks for calling in Mikki and for your kind words. I sometimes look through pictorials on the Vietnam war and cannot understand what was gained. Acts of random violence against small children is just beyond my undestanding. i have left you some mail the other day if you want to have a look see. Stay safe my friend. love Shane xxx

Andrea Dietrich

February 3, 2015 at 2:23 PM

a very worthwhile theme you chose. WELL DONE and congrats in the contest.

February 3, 2015 at 4:34 PM

Thank you Andrea, and congrats to you as well. I do not see a lot of contravesial topics written as poems here, but then again i am new and have limited most of my reading to youself and a dozen others. Thank you for your continued support. Love Shane xxx

Rajat Kanti Chakrabarty

February 3, 2015 at 7:50 AM

Well done Shane Congrats on win. God bless>rajat

February 3, 2015 at 4:30 PM

Thank you for your cogratulations. love Shane

February 3, 2015 at 6:53 AM

Dropping back with my congrats Shane:-) Hugs Jan xx

February 3, 2015 at 7:49 AM

thanks Jan, congrats to you also. Yours was a very good write. love Shane xxx

February 3, 2015 at 5:35 AM

Thanks for participating in my contest and congrats on the win, Shane

February 3, 2015 at 11:07 PM

Thank you also i think that I have broadend the way I can approach writing after this. love Shane

Eileen Manassian

February 2, 2015 at 6:04 PM

What a powerful write, Shane. So strong and so.....moving. Yes. A mother, a brother, a sister, a father is plunged into a living hell with the live of the loved one is cruelly taken away. Good for you for writing on this important theme.

February 3, 2015 at 4:32 AM

Thank you for stopping to read my poem my enchantress. I value your comments. This is something I feel very deeply. Probably because I cannot understand why anyone would want to do harm to another. Let alone children. Love Shane xxx

Rajat Kanti Chakrabarty

February 2, 2015 at 9:43 AM

Very pertinent questions Shane yet to be answered. We are chilled at strings of violence all over the world specially among teens and children. What's the end? Love>rajat

February 2, 2015 at 4:05 PM

Thankyou Rajat for coming by, it is something that stays on my mind a lot. I do not understand mans inhumanity and to take the lives of innocent children just because they were present is Incomprehensible to me. No guns would stop the carnage in its tracks but that is just wishful thinking. Love Shane xxx

February 2, 2015 at 8:26 AM

Powerful and sad, the truth stings, there is too much violence, but it needs to be said, and you said it well. Let's hope for a day without hell. Hugs xxx

February 2, 2015 at 8:55 AM

Thanks for dropping in to read my poem. I wish I could see day without Hell. It will never happen unless people learn to love and not fear thy neighbour. Sounds simple to me and you but it is incomprehensible to far too many. Love Shane xxx

Anne-Lise Andresen

February 1, 2015 at 12:22 PM

- Woow ... a powerful poem Shane (7 +++) - very well written !!! - hug // Anne-Lise :)

February 1, 2015 at 1:12 PM

Thank you Anne Lise for stopping to read my work and i am happy that you liked the poem. love Shane xxx

February 1, 2015 at 8:51 AM

Wow you knocked my socks off with this powerful write Shane - when will these needless deaths stop - such tragedies we seem to see so often all around the globe - good luck in the contest a 7 from me and fave:-) Hugs jan x

February 1, 2015 at 11:37 AM

Thanks Jan, I have been having a lot of problems lately and after watching a documentary on Columbine a couple of weeks ago and what happened here in Sydney I thought this was a good thing to bring up. Take care of yourself my dear friend Love Shane

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