Sunday, December 16, 2012

An Audible Gasp – Newtown – v2



I first heard the awful news, driving, alone
tears welling up, uncontrollable
the thought of young children
in the madman’s sights
my hand to my mouth
hearing my own gasp
reverberating, echoing in the car

An audible gasp, remembered
a nation frozen, transfixed
all of us brought into tragedy, yet again,
by the radio, TV screens, the images
the calls for gun law reform
not wanting to believe

An audible gasp, in horror,
the innocents lost in their youth
not removing the bodies
the story of the multiple gunshots
knowing death reigned inside

An audible gasp was our common response
as each person faced terror
alive in our hearts that day,
Never to be forgotten


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Edited December 16, 2012
“An Audible Gasp – Newtown – v2”
Edited December 16, 2012
new poem – “An Audible Gasp – Newtown”
about the tragedy that visited Sandy Hook Elementary School
December 14, 2012
&
Edited September 11, 2012
new poem – “An Audible Gasp - 2”
September 11, 2012
“A Gasp”
written about my experience at
Franklin Pierce Law Center
Concord, NH
on September 11, 2001
in the TV lounge
where we all stayed, transfixed by the images
&
latest 20 poems about
September 11, 2001


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