Vast Fields of Crosses, All the Same

November 6, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Veterans Day, which is celebrated on November 11^th.

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A Veteran’s Day poem addressed to parents in a military cemetery:

Vast fields of crosses, all the same,

Each embellished with a name.

This is what your love has wrought!

Embrace the child become a thought,

Reduced to regimented loss,

A name screwed on a plain, white cross!

Nor can you feel what you must feel

Since what is real cannot be real.

Devour the moment, make it yours,

As life continues on all fours,

Yearning, begging at closed doors.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Veterans Day

11/5: Thank You’s Howl like Wind Across the Dead

11/6: Vast Fields of Crosses, All the Same