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Saturday night I watched “Slum Dog Millionaire ” for the first time. I liked the movie. I am reminded what a violent world this for children to grow up in.
Writing poetry is one way I deal with things, including uncomfortable things
A couple my older efforts about growing up in the violence of the world:
Don’t Worry , Momma
“Don’t Worry” says momma,
“You got nothing to fear.”
But he already knows
St Jude has turned a deaf ear.
Walking down the streets
With holes in his shoes
Empty pocket, heavy mind
And nothing to lose.
He wants to take back
All the promises given
Now banished away
By life’s hard Living.
Thunder crash! random act..
Everyone hit the ground.
One less forgotten soul
on the forgotten side of town.
“Don’t worry” says momma
“He was promised to heaven”
Somewhere a new babe was born
at a quarter to eleven…
Poem for Fisher*
I can tell you
what i believe is right
i can tell you
what you do is wrong
i can give you
all my judging opinions
in poem, prose or song .
but a single
act of valure
in an unscripted
unreal day
shocks my core
with heroic standard
finite words will never say
*M. Fisher was in her elementary school when she told a gunman to shoot her first, and not her classmates.
In the first poem “Momma” is just a mother, there is no reference to my other posts or usages of “Momma”.