July 4, 2019
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. The theme for this week is Independence Day (USA).
I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com
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An Independence Day poem about the interdependence of
nations:
Indeed, this should be interdependence day.
No nation can lay claim to independence.
Despite the myth of sovereignty, we are
Entangled in a web of greed and need,
Poised upon the lip of life's destruction.
Eventually, pain will have its way,
Nor will we fail forever our descendants.
Death comes singing anthems from afar,
Even as each victim is a seed
Now blowing in the wind of our redemption.
Come, then, for the Earth will have its say,
Eloquent on the subject of dependence.
Divided, we have not the strength to bar
A nation from its exercise of greed.
Yet as one world, we can avoid extinction.
© by Nicholas Gordon
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This week’s theme: Independence Day (USA)
7/4: Indeed, This Should Be Interdependence Day
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