I
first heard it, the news of the shooting, driving,
tears
welling up, I could not control them;
I
heard my own gasp
reverberating,
not stopping,
echoing
in the moving car.
An
audible gasp, a presence, remembered,
when
we all were brought into that tragedy
that moment unthinkable, madness,
chaos,
by
the radio, TV screens, the images,
not
wanting to believe it happened again.
An
audible gasp, in horror, in shock,
not
something to believe, to accept,
the
innocents lost in their youth;
The
authorities not removing the bodies
from
the rooms, knowing Death reigned inside.
An
audible gasp was our common response
as
each person faced that terror, the images,
our
nation held in fear, once again;
Alive
in our hearts that day,
Never
to be forgotten.
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edited
December 11, 2015
An Audible
Gasp – Newtown – v5
(editing
version 4)
(after many
other mass shootings)
edited April
17, 2015
An Audible
Gasp – Newton – v4
(merging edits
to original and version 3)
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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