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As Lions Roar In Rome - 9/11 Dedication
by Michael DefriesIt moves the viscera like a building-demolishing
Colliding-while-collecting remnants of dust and ash
Piles build up as thoughts process imaginary movies
Playing like celluloid burning onto the pale canvas
Theaters display poetic follies of real-life in the
Mean-while winter comes from behind closed corners.
Designs arrive as supple scents of morning rain moving
Along open nostrils as suits analyze damaged reservoirs
It's patience holding my gentle nature as lions roar.
Watching from above territories expand while declination
Occurs landsliding history's progress to repeat in error
Language of hearing fear messages mongering denying hope.
Blizzards tempt fate as precise plans of memorials stand
Lighting the memorization that we were a once proud land
It's the turn of this new era, we begun once Rome fell.
01/18/2010 Author's Note:
Dedicated To The Memorial, People, and Events of 9/11.
(I was writing this to be a totally different piece and
since I had New York in mind I realized I was writing
unconsciously about the twin towers and 9/11. After
which, I consciously added the last two stanzas apart
from the initial writing).
I hope that this piece doesn't hurt or offend anyone.
It just needed to come out as I pray for healing and
peace.
Posted on 01/22/2010
Copyright © 2025 Michael Defries
| Member Comments on this Poem |
| Posted by Julie Adams on 03/07/10 at 03:14 PM I have given you an extensive feedback on this directly, but had to put kudos on this piece directly also, it is much deserved...One line I just adore: “Mean-while winter comes from behind closed corners.”—I love the image of winter emerging in this way, such a Narnia feel to it, and it is so perfectly delivered, one of those lines you wish you wrote!!! Peace to u poet, jewels |
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