September 15, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. This week’s theme is terrorism in memory of the attacks on the World
Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001.
Today’s poem is about our fears of terrorism engulfing our country
as it has Somalia, Syria, or Libya.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Morphed to Somalia
Quick as a dream,
We are unsettled
More than we seem.
Moses lies wrapped
In fast-melting ice
While mourners avenge
Mohammed and Christ.
Here in the desert
We fear for our flesh.
We wait for our pain,
Meat, more or less.
The earth is afoot
With zealots in chains,
But of what we hunger for
Little remains.
The murderers mangle,
The wounded bulls gore.
We sleep in the shadows
And wake by the shore.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/morphe.html.
For more poems about terrorism and 911, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/terrorism911poems.html
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This week’s theme: Terrorism
September 11: So Did You Die of History
September 12: Soldiers Kill, for That Is Their Profession
September 13: There Is No Armor We Can Wear
September 14: To Our Loved One Far Away
September 15: Morphed to Somalia
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