Cowardice and Tragedy
- from Lana Christman
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- Stroudsburg Area High School
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These are two short poems that I think go together. They were both written after reading a book or story that made me feel such strong emotions I wouldn’t normally feel that I had to attempt to capture them in the best way I could. However good that is. Those emotions: cowardice and tragedy.
Cowardice:
Cages sought to destroy,
Weaken at the rims.
Ploys meant for men
Shade into a curtain.
They lift up a smell...
The cages whimper, crashing
From weight of endless
Choices.
Never made.
Never used.
Only hidden
In the shadows of their caves.
Tragedy:
Heartless tears come soaring,
Midnight spaces out of sight.
Let blight stare from nowhere
And where
accusations find their sources.
But life presents moments
Like droplets on a frosted pine
Pining after roses...
Before and after
The clamp.
the sound of croaking out of sight.