The Poetry Page

      I have been writing poetry for almost as long as I can remember, but I have rarely had the confidence to allow others to see my work. I have decided finally to add a section of my original poetry to my web page. I hope that you enjoy it.

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      Capital Punishment
      
Oklahoma City
  How horrible
168 murdered
      No, wait
Make that 169
There,
  that's better


      The Colouring Book
      

In her first colouring book everything was red
  It was her favourite colour
    The sky, the grass, the houses
       all red
And the grownups smiled

As she grew, she found other colours
  The sky was bright purple, the grass orange
     People were often blue
The adults stopped smiling

She should know, by now, that everything
had proper colours
She was no longer a child
who could see the world as she chose

Look at the blood
that flowed from her wrists
Not some ridiculous colour like green
but very red
      



      The Unspoken Prayer
      

God grant us victory in this war
Help us to come home safe and whole

Let it be the other young men
who are maimed and killed
Let it be the other families who
lose their homes
and die of disease and starvation
Let other children be targets for missiles
and play in fields filled with land mines

Let thousands of other people
suffer and die
They are nameless and faceless
and have no meaning
Just take care of me.

Amen.



      Songs on a Sitar
      

Songs on a sitar
Dreams of love
  and death
Hope for life
   A run for freedom
Take a drink
   Of undiluted pain
And pray to your god
   to be able to dance
And go out
and face the music

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