Hello Rosemary, Perhaps words only matter if value systems are the same. What can you do or say to those who just don't care or are too selfish to consider any consequences? --Jim
This is a more trying time for me than even the isolation we went through during the early part of the pandemic. I am glad my Father who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and other skirmishes in WWII is not around to experience this now.
Plenty of words on TV from politicians and journalists though covering events every few hours daily but if it goes on for months they might well run out of things to say and will eventually turn elsewhere. This is the first Russian incursion to get full daily coverage unlike Crimea, Syria or Afghanistan so plenty of eyeballs watching at least, this time around.
Simple structure and repetition made the poem more powerful. Thanks for sharing the nice poems. I’m stunned and speechless every time I see what’s going on.
No words to describe the horror of war. Mankind doesn't learn very much, I fear - though I had never thought that in our times such awful things would happen, so near.
And I have no words.
ReplyDeletePowerful and very sad….
ReplyDeleteSays it all.
ReplyDeleteHow poignant. Thanks for sharing these words...a definite juxtaposition of words about no words.
ReplyDeleteMy father survived WW2 and my life was enormously and negatively influenced by the Vietnam War. Everyone had hoped there would never be a war again.
ReplyDeleteHello Rosemary, Perhaps words only matter if value systems are the same. What can you do or say to those who just don't care or are too selfish to consider any consequences?
ReplyDelete--Jim
I have no words. We need action, not words. But what can I do? So little.
ReplyDeleteThis is a more trying time for me than even the isolation we went through during the early part of the pandemic. I am glad my Father who fought in the Battle of the Bulge and other skirmishes in WWII is not around to experience this now.
ReplyDeleteSo powerful. Thank your thoughtful son.
ReplyDeleteEntirely appropriate.
ReplyDeletePlenty of words on TV from politicians and journalists though covering events every few hours daily but if it goes on for months they might well run out of things to say and will eventually turn elsewhere. This is the first Russian incursion to get full daily coverage unlike Crimea, Syria or Afghanistan so plenty of eyeballs watching at least, this time around.
ReplyDeleteYes, it is beyond words. It is so hard to think of as there is nothing that we, the general population, can do.
ReplyDeleteRosemary how true are those words your son wrote. Well done and so sad.
ReplyDeleteThank you to you all for your thoughtful comments.
ReplyDeleteSimple structure and repetition made the poem more powerful. Thanks for sharing the nice poems. I’m stunned and speechless every time I see what’s going on.
ReplyDeleteYoko
Great words and so true.
ReplyDeleteSo true...
ReplyDeleteLove from Titti
No words to describe the horror of war. Mankind doesn't learn very much, I fear - though I had never thought that in our times such awful things would happen, so near.
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