July 14, 2016
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is revolution, in honor of Bastille Day, which falls on
July 14.
Today’s poem is a Bastille Day warning about the dangers of
too-wide social inequalities.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Beware of inequalities too wide
And chasms that cannot be bridged by dreams.
Societies fray first along the seams,
Then rip apart, exposing rot inside.
In chaos hopes for liberty abide;
Life in its Edenic newness gleams;
Longing is more brutal than it seems;
Ecstatic demons 'cross the wastelands glide.
Do, then, recall the day of the Bastille
As one whose burst of glory would reveal
Yearnings that would stain the turning tide.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/bewar2.html.
For more poems for Bastille Day, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/bastilledaypoems.html
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This week’s theme: Revolution.
July 13: Those Who Have Power and No Pity
July 14: Beware of Inequalities Too Wide
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