The Sunday Muse #207
A man listening to a gramophone in what’s left of his bombed-out bedroom in Aleppo,
Syria. Photography by Joseph Eid
The music resonates
Resonates the happy days
Days of laughter and blissful times
Times now shattered
Shattered between acrid smell and smoked debris
Debris stirs silence
Silence, that echoes the gunfire
Gunfire, that silenced the smiles
Smiles of dear ones
Ones who were part of life
Life sacrificed mindlessly
Mindlessly, in the hands of greed
Greed has raised its demonic head
Head, that has completely forgotten
Forgotten, that we are all humans
Humans will all perish
Perish, in our own space and time
Time cannot erase
Erase the memories
Memories that resonates
Resonates the melodies
Melodies of happier times.
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I have seen this form before and it is a powerful one for this image. So much loss and destruction in this world, and your poignant poem stirs those thoughts and feelings beautifully Sunita.
ReplyDeleteYes, the merciless dance of killing across the world is really heartbreaking. Thank you, Carrie for an amazing prompt. Btw the poetic form is called LOOP.
DeleteThis image really spoke to me too. I am right there with you in the devastation of what is happening - each person just a human being - how on earth do we do this to each other?
ReplyDeleteI too wonder sometimes, Sherry! We are all mortals and still we kill each other.
DeleteGreat form for remembering; emphasizes the grief layering those memories.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Chrissa. Hope you are doing well :)
DeletePoignant piece Sunita. It is a deep sadness of the soul.
ReplyDeleteYes, so much sufferin!
DeleteIt is a powerful image and your poem does it great justice.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Marion :)
DeleteAn awesome poem illustrating the needless/senseless horror, devastation, death in Ukraine.
ReplyDeleteYes, even in 21st century the mayhem continues.
DeleteLuv that you chose this wrap around style for emphasis. It works so well. The caution, the helplessness, the grief, the destiny, all of which is crafted so brilliantly.
ReplyDeleteHave a blessed Sunday Sunita. Thanks for dropping by my blog today
Much💛love
Thank you, Gillena :)
DeleteGood writing on the bad actor, terrible bad. He and the carnage sicken me. The russian president was shown on TV crossing himself for Eastern or russian Orthodox Easter. His Bible is like others? Those books have the ten commandments, the 5th is "Thou shall not kill." Besides being a ruthless killer and a mad man, he now has been shown to be a hypocrite.
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A true Christian won't commit such atrocities. But greed is another thing.
DeleteI felt like this photo was too intense for me, Sunita... but you've done it powerful justice.
ReplyDeleteSincerely,
David [ben Alexander]
http://skepticskaddish.com/
Thank you, David :)
DeletePerfect form for this photograph, Sunita.
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