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Autumn Leaves Poetry Contest  Jcb Brul, Sponsor   10/9/2024

 

LEAVES May each leaf that falls in faith of something greater still stand for the dead and suffering cries, that echo eastern streets. How vicious is genetic hate, whose memory retrieves and causes youth to emulate atrocities once shared. May each leaf that loses life to winds that separate its soul stand for the wounded, homeless, slain that will know Spring's rebirth. How merciless the memory of grandma's tattooed limb, that strips some of a caring heart to justify the slaughter. May each leaf the touches ground, as dried and brown discard, stand for a lifeless body wrapped within a displaced home. Autumn leaves, autumn leaves, in lovely colors dying. You suffer not from war torn winds in treeless places bare. How deep down will bruising be, in leaves of autumn memories.

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