Borders Are Obscenities

February 19, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics, in honor of Presidents Day, which will be celebrated tomorrow, February 20.

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A political poem about the nature of borders:

Borders are obscenities,

Barbed wire through the heart,

Guardians of amenities

Tearing us apart;

Scars across the living Earth,

Remnants of old wounds;

Bastions of good luck at birth;

Death among the dunes;

Walls to stop a surging sea,

Keeping back the tide

Of those of us who are not we

Yet would join us inside;

Fortresses of fortunes good

And prison camps of bad;

Boundaries of brotherhood

In mines and sensors clad;

Soon, we hope, to be just lines

Unnoticed as we pass

Some unobtrusive welcome signs

Half hidden in tall grass.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

2/18: Here We Have No Harbingers

2/19: Borders Are Obscenities