For so long, in my life,
unable
to discern, to appreciate
the
moment of shock, or anger,
of
desire for revenge, for a call to duty
to
vigilance, to service to our nation
not
like anything in my experience,
the
attack on Pearl Harbor, the Day of Infamy,
December
7, 1941 (can you hear his voice too?)
But
our lives changed, and we know their pain
the
anger they felt, seventy-five years gone by
because
we were visited by cowards in the skies
Kamikazes
of another zealot, another madman
bent
on surprise and attack on chaos
when
the towers fell, we were pulled back
to
the crackling radio and
FDR’s
righteous indignation
We
too knew what it felt like
and
we will never forget
Too
bad the enemy is no longer
a
nation-state
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edited December 7, 2016
Pearl Reconsidered – v2
Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day
75th anniversary of the attack
December 8, 2006 19:40
Pearl Reconsidered
edited September 10, 2016
Terror – v3
15th Anniversary
of attacks of September 11, 2001
edited January 7, 2016
Terror – v2
posted February 17, 2004
written 9/11/01 22:12
Terror
&
edited September 11, 2015
Raising the Colors – v4
(editing version 2)
September 11, 2015,
14th
anniversary of attacks of September 11, 2015
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
&
posted February 22, 2004
written 11/6/03 13:30, edits 11/8/03 12:46
Circles
http://raymondafoss.blogspot.com/2004/02/circles.html
About the print show at Pierce Law by Aaron Brown of November 2003. He said the prints were about the events of 9/11/01, especially the twisted metal of the bombed buildings. They came months after the attack when he finally returned to print work after a lengthy hiatus when he wrote instead. His wife shared that they all came out in a burst of activity over a single week. Aaron would only get a few hours of sleep each night and was almost working round the clock in the studio. His activities were so frenetic and continuous that he left the paints out, and would merely spray them so they remained wet and fresh.
About the print show at Pierce Law by Aaron Brown of November 2003. He said the prints were about the events of 9/11/01, especially the twisted metal of the bombed buildings. They came months after the attack when he finally returned to print work after a lengthy hiatus when he wrote instead. His wife shared that they all came out in a burst of activity over a single week. Aaron would only get a few hours of sleep each night and was almost working round the clock in the studio. His activities were so frenetic and continuous that he left the paints out, and would merely spray them so they remained wet and fresh.
&
written and posted
September 11, 2004
Three Years
about September 11, 2001
&
September 11, 2007
Where Will They Attack
&
December 8, 2006 19:40
Pearl Reconsidered
&
edited December 7, 2014
Because They Died – v4
(editing version 2)
Pearl Harbor Remembrance
Day
&
edited
December 7, 2014
Anniversary
– v2
Pearl
Harbor Remembrance Day
8/29/2002
Anniversary
&
President Roosevelt’s
Address to the Nation / Declaration of War
&
edited November 11, 2014
Because They Died – v3
Veteran’s Day
edited May 25, 2014
Because They Died – v2
May 31, 2010
Because They Died
Memorial Day
===========
edited September 11, 2016
his body slumped – v2
September 10, 2016
entombed within the rubble
edited September 10, 2016
Circles – v3
edited January 7, 2016
Circles – v2
posted February 22, 2004
written 11/6/03 13:30, edits 11/8/03 12:46
Circles
edited September 10, 2016
As I woke this morning – v4
September 10, 2016
his body slumped
15th anniversary of attacks of September 11,
2001
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edited November 23, 2015
As I woke this morning – v3
(editing version 2)
&
September 22, 2011
Fruits of Rage
melding the consequence of possibly executing an innocent
man
and the decade since September 11, 2001
September 21, 2011
Fruits of a Decade
September 21, 2011
Seeds of Hate
September 11, 2011
Reclaiming September 12
September 11, 2011
Reliving these moments
September 10, 2011
Terror Real
10th anniversary of September 11, 2001
and the plot to attack DC and NY
reported September 9, 2011
&
edited September 10, 2011
As I woke this morning – v2
all of my September 11, 2001 poems
----------------
September 11, 2008
As I woke this morning
On the anniversary of September 11, 2001
watching it my first year of law school
Franklin Pierce Law Center, Concord, NH
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