Today is October 2, 3014 - National Poetry Day. The theme for 2014 is "remember."
It Started With a Phone Call, was written on September 11, 2002 and is about 911 - that horrible day our lives changed forever, September 11, 2001. We will never forget!
The Rape of the Expendable was also written in 2002; my feelings about the Exxon-Valdez oil spill. However, it is applicable to the BP oil spill and the many, many others that have occurred around the world. The terrible damage to each area's wild life and the ecological impact should never be forgotten.
And finally: You Are in Our Thoughts and Prayers, 2003, was posted September 27, 2014, but should be included in our "remembrance" as it is a letter to all service men and women serving abroad and at home. It is as timely today as it was then.
Time passes by so quickly and life goes on, but we remember.
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Thursday, October 2, 2014
Rape of the Expendable
Glistening
drops of oil
Beading
up on silent waters
Like
quarters on Army beds
Black
like the plague of death
They
leave behind
Unforgiving
of the innocent
Greasy
sheets of oil
Clinging
to silent feathers
Like
shrouds marking mass graves
Carelessly
thrown over all
In the
rush to cover nakedness
As if
the dead cared anymore
Slow
unkindly demise
Of
Nature's treasures
Rape of
the expendable
By the
reprehensible
For the
untenable
Reason
of wealth
God have
mercy
On us
all
Earlene
McCoy
©2002
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