Searching for Significance

November 13, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. This week’s theme is politics in honor of Election Day (USA), which falls on November 8.

Today’s poem is about how the desire for political change can lead to violence.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Searching for significance,

One finds a bloody trail

Leading to a sea of bones

Upon a sun-drenched shore.

In the end there's no defense

For something that must fail,

As politicians work the phones

To dredge up one vote more.

All social schemes eventually,

Besieged, must turn to those

Who make a livelihood of death

Serving unchecked zeal.

For those who would change history

Unleash a world of woes

Upon those who, with bated breath,

Wait for hearts to heal.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/search.html . For more poems about politics, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/politicalpoems.html.

This week’s theme: Politics.

November 7: Elections, as You Know, Are Bought and Sold

November 8: After All, the Market Runs on Greed

November 9: Even When There’s Little Choice, We Choose

November 10: Fifty-Eight

November 11: Proverbs for Legislators

November 12: Proverbs on the State

November 13: Searching for Significance