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Samira
Contributed by
Steeleyes
on
Monday, 3rd March 2003 @ 10:00:00 PM in AEST
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Her name is Samira
She is five
She sees the silver bird flying through a clear blue sky
It glints in the sun and catches her eye
Fifteen seconds pass slowly...
The sight brings happy memories to her mind
Little tinsel squares thrown at a joyous wedding
The tiny silver horse she had loved so much
in the bazaar
A sparkle of water in the market square
Ten seconds pass, a leaf falls gently...
She smiles and squints in the sun
and closes one beautiful brown eye
The better to see her silver bird fly
The bird makes a long slow arc
She loves the shape of the curve it makes
Like the curve of her arm shielding her eyes
Her thoughts go to her very own tree
And the soft shapes of its lovely limbs
And she thinks of the sound
Of the leaves at night
How they take her off to sleep
Five seconds of love and light remain...
The sun has warmed her to sleepy dreaming
Creeping under the shade of her protecting arm
And in playful loving and new thoughts waking
She touches her cheek
And runs to tell.........
-
On the side of the 'bird' in large letters:
'From Uncle Sam' and a grin
The missile cost so many dollars
So many gifts that could have been...
Perhaps for ten thousand children
And two worlds so much nearer
But death from the sky could never bring
A tiny horse to our Samira
Having lost its track and trajectory
The maps of its mind don't work
And who will ever know why
It saw the house as a target
Was it lost and dreaming too?
And through a fever of confusion
A little village house
Seemed a better place to die
Than its sad mechanical mind
Too cold and lonely in the sky
Ten days go by in a fiery heat
before a GI passes by
Thinking of his lovely daughter
The apple of his eye
The bloody bones he tidies up
And throws them in the sewer
'Some damned unlucky Iraqi cat or dog'
Our world is now one fewer
Copyright ©
Steeleyes
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2003-03-03 22:00:00]
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Re: Samira
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by DreamWeaver on
Monday, 3rd March 2003 @ 10:09:26 PM AEST
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| This is a very chilling poem ... you have an amazing way of writing - from beauty to death, and the last verse cold hard reality. Incredible write. Ten stars. |
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Re: Samira
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by LOWMAN613 on
Monday, 3rd March 2003 @ 11:21:37 PM AEST
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So much truth & pain to this story !
So well done in your write,a very vivid picture you paint here! Great one! Christina |
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Re: Samira
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by Jenni_Kalicharan on
Tuesday, 4th March 2003 @ 05:21:55 AM AEST
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WOW!!!!! speechless!!
Jenni |
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Re: Samira
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by Steeleyes on
Thursday, 6th March 2003 @ 07:06:39 PM AEST
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Thank you very much Dreamweaver.
PEACE |
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Re: Samira
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by Steeleyes on
Thursday, 6th March 2003 @ 07:14:47 PM AEST
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Thank you very much Christina.
PEACE |
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Re: Samira
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by Steeleyes on
Thursday, 6th March 2003 @ 07:16:38 PM AEST
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Thank you very much Jenni.
((((PEACE)))) |
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Re: Samira
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by LadyDama on
Saturday, 8th March 2003 @ 06:49:14 AM AEST
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| my heart is breaking... for i know that is true... i do not have all the answers... and i do not wish for terrorism in our world, but how many more innocents can die like this?... "accidents" of this nature of in no way forgivable... and i know that these "accidents" happen... descibing the person behind such an "accident" made this poem that much more enthralling and captivating... i am so sad that this really does happen... i "pray" for peace too... blessings... |
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