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Martin Mc Carthy's avatar

Jonathan, this is a superb poem - a poem for the troubled times in which we live, and in which poets continue to speak - to acknowledge devastating events, but also to believe in love and the amazing beauty of life, nevertheless.

"The fires that lately raged

still smolder in these syllables,

but words are beginning to form

into sentences that speak from love

infused with a new song emerging

to be born from the ocean breezes."

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Margaret Ann Silver's avatar

These lines grabbed me:

"in the absence of an olive branch,

in the presence of a mystery."

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