I first heard it,
driving,
tears welling up,
uncontrollable
hearing my own gasp
reverberating, not
stopping,
echoing in the car
An audible gasp,
remembered
all of us brought into
tragedy
that moment unthinkable,
chaos,
by the radio, TV screens,
the images
not wanting to believe
An audible gasp, in
horror,
not wanting to believe
innocents lost in their
youth
not removing the bodies
knowing death reigned inside
An audible gasp was our common
response
as each person faced
terror
our nation held in fear
alive in our hearts that
day,
Never to be forgotten
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edited
January 6, 2014
“An
Audible Gasp – Newtown – v3”
(editing
original again)
“An
Audible Gasp – Newtown”
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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