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Camilla,

A wonderful poem.  Thank you.

Bill
    -----Original Message-----
    From: Camilla Flintermann <[log in to unmask]>
    To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
    Date: Friday, November 12, 1999 9:37 AM
    Subject: Re: A Remembrance Day Poem
    
    
    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
    >
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    >
    >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.
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    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
    
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    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