Photo: Dvora Freedman
In the restless nights
They walked
Silent in the desert
Stalked
While the prowlers
Rose to halt
And turn hope
To anguished fault.
But we’ll silent be
No more
For those who had been harmed
Before.
And we will raise our voice
To show
That cruelty we will not
Let grow.
For dVerse Poets: Sounds of Silence
Plastic muskets laid bare
To the earth and the air
As rogue arms on a dare
Sought excuse to declare
Every day a warfare
Blood and death everywhere
By a print left to share
As weak minds to beware
Turn stale rage to nightmare
While those who ought be aware
Turn blind eye to despair
By their greed fast ensnared.
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As a bell tolls
Come dark,
May its sound be a reminder
Of the toll
Exacted from those whose steps
Are hidden,
Whose freedoms are
Forsaken,
And whose voices
Are silenced,
For no fault
But being
Born
Into hardship
And fleeing
Danger zones.
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Do not be reticent
About the truth.
When stolen children
Cry
Deprived of trust
Of hope
Of warmth,
Those of us who have
A voice
Must use it,
For the helpless
Cannot.
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Spine; Gray Henry 1918
Beware of being blinded
By the application
Of flattery
(Or use of abuse)
To gain influence
For harm.
For if you do turn into
A servile acolyte
There is no end
To the baser motives
That you, too, will
Become.
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It is a sign of the times
It is a heartache due noting
And why all must not minimize
The essential role of fair voting.
For Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge
“I met that man before I got here,” James had whispered while they were getting shackled for the long bus ride to the mines. The three of them were part of a shipment of fifteen long-faced youths in assorted shirts and pants. Their jail considered itself cutting-edge in social reformation. Same reason wardens used the euphemism “bunkmates” instead of “cellmates”: sounded better. Wearing donated clothes that inmates washed themselves was considered rehabilitative. A life-skill of boxers and holey socks hung on bunk-rungs to dry.
“What man?” Bobby had asked.
“Someone,” James had hissed. James always knew “someone.” Rarely closely—he had a knack for making people angry. As soon as Marcus learned the word “mercurial,” he knew exactly whom it fit. James had been raised by a gang, and if that group was anything like the bunch he himself had run with, in which individuals turned against each other to gain favor with the marshals, Marcus doubted gang life taught good friendships.
(Excerpt from “Apples in Applath”)
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If I could just forestall the suffering
Of little ones
Locked by a heartless bind
And prevented even from the comfort
Of their parents’ loving arms.
If I could somehow stave off
Their sorrow
And their helpless rage
For what should never have been made
Reality
At their tender age.
If only we all raised our voices
And demanded cruelty stop,
Maybe those who caused the pain
And obviate the healing
Will make way
For better others
Who would lead not by agony
But hope.
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Mom always told him to put his best foot forward.
So he did.
He pulled it off and placed it in front of his wheelchair. It was the shorter prosthesis, the one that didn’t need straps around the hip to secure and the one he could even put a bit of weight on. Well, on good days, at least.
A sigh climbed in his chest, but he shook it off, took a deep breath, arranged the cardboard sign, and began:
“Oh say, can you see?…”
For Rochelle’s Friday Fictioneers Challenge
Photo: Dvora Freedman
Despite it all, she knew
It was not meant to be this way,
Bereft of tether.
Despite it all, she understood
Wrong won’t hold sway
Forever.
So despite it all, she prayed
Easier breaths will soon be drawn
Together.
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