dVerse Poets – Poetics – In The Time Of The Plague
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“Hope begins in the dark.” Anne Lamott
We Raged
We raged against that suppuration
of darkness that swallowed the night
and laid waste to the light,
that consuming plague, which
wrote itself on the hearts
of unwitting bystanders
near the corner store,
or the park railings,
unpicked by sweating masks
whose tired incantations
wrenched large at death,
and laid in arks
the valley of flowers
hinting at the new Jerusalem,
we did not go gently.
©Paul Vincent Cannon
Paul, pvcann.com
Just wow!
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VJ, thank you for the wonderful compliment.
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My pleasure, Paul
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So well done Paul! Your images and inferences are spot on. The ending says it all.. we will not go down without a fight.
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Thank you so much Dwight for your encouraging thoughts and response, no, we fight on.
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You are welcome!
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A leveling, when the mighty and the needy are given to realize we are really all the same, fighting a common foe
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Absolutely Beverly.
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No, we will not go gently……..let’s hope we emerge strongly!
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Indeed Sherry.
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Oh I love the reference to Dylan Thomas in the end… now don’t go gently… rage rage against the night.
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Thank you Bjorn, yes let’s rage. I couldn’t resist Thomas’ thought.
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Please be well!
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You too Ruth. There’s some hope down here, the curve is flattening.
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Yay!!! Our east coast curve may be flattening too.
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Woohoo
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That’s good to hear!
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I think our govt was slow to start, but eventually got going on some good measures. New Zealand is the one to watch, Ardern is doing a fantastic job..
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I’m with you and Dylan Thomas, no going gently here.
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Yes, rage on, couldn’t resist Thomas
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We are all in our arks now.
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We sure are Frank, many thanks.
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Reblogged this on The Reluctant Poet.
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No surrender 🙂
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The fact that this poem is written in past tense is a sign of hope, yes?
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Very much so, that sense of coming through, thank you Liz, well spotted.
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Very deep
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Thank you Lyn.
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Really “Wow”, Paul! Thank you for these strong, but very true thoughts. Happy Easter! Sorry, i am a little bit late with this, but i hope the timezone will make it. 😉 Michael
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Happy Easter Michael, thank you 🙂
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You too, Paul! Thank you! 🙂
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🙂
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:-))
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Hi there. Hoping you’ll stop by my bog. Thanks. https://marcreovers.home.blog/
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