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This List is rich in poetry. I wonder if is connection/coincidence? Thank you all. Carole H. --- Camilla Flintermann <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Bill-- your moving poem reminded me of feeling I have > had, which > prompted a poem of mine some time ago----it follows the > snip fom > yours: > > > > >REMEMBRANCE DAY 1996 > > >by > > >Bill Harshaw > > > > > SNIPPED > > > > > >Who cares about Rwanda, Bosnia, Eire? > > >We become inured to daily carnage. The > > >Great Appeaser said: "It is a quarrel in a > > >Far off country about a people of whom > > >We know nothing. We have let God down. > > ************ > > > > <fontfamily><param>Palatino</param>WAR ZONE > > > ( I am haunted by the eyes of children...) > > > The eyes of the children > > are filled > > with tears. > > > They have witnessed--- > > stunned and disbelieving--- > > what no child should see. > > > And when the tears dry, > > will sorrow, > > the shock of loss > > and terror of loneliness > > > become > > > anger at betrayal, > > fear of greater loss, > > cold fire of revenge? > > > I am haunted by the eyes of children. > > > > CHF, 1991 > > > </fontfamily>*********** > > > > Camilla Hewson Flintermann > <<[log in to unmask]> > > > > http://www.newcountry.nu/pd/members/camilla/one.htm > > > > > "...everywhere I go, > > I find that a poet > > has been there > > before me..." > > ...Sigmund Freud > > > ===== __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Bid and sell for free at http://auctions.yahoo.com