Grief Shooting Poems

A tombstone is my thought,
I made my tomb out of thoughts
I knitted my shroud from hundreds of ideas
And out of sadness I finished my coffin.

I...

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   Shot after shot after shot
     Caitlin’s red-hot

   Swish, swish, swish; the net barely moves
  ...

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14,000 bodies
sprawled on the floor
bloody
dead

14,000 families 
screaming to the sky
confused
alone

14,000 bullets
laying empty on the ground
dented
stained

14,000 screams
echoing through the air
desperate
scared

How can we let this happen?
How can...

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These are poems for the victims of the Nashville Covenant School shootings.


Nashville Covenant Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch

Our hearts are broken today
for our children's...

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Have you ever seen that shooting star?
When people die they don't go far..
Look at the sky on a warm summer day,
the love you two shared...

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Just say no to sunshine
Trying to penetrate your dark doom
Wrap your black cloud around its fire 
Smoother it in your tears, in your grief
In your...

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I was sitting in school when 
it happened
But I didn't know, not then
I was driving home from school when
Police were breaking down the door
But I...

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Sandy Hook Call to Love
by Michael R. Burch
 
Our hearts are broken today
for our children's small bodies lie broken;
let us gather them up, as we...

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Another Day Another Shooting

another day in paradise
?just another day in America
?land of the free?
Home of the brave

and guns?lots
 lots of gunshots 
 ?more guns for...

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