Saturday, November 9, 2019

Indo-China: Craters in Kien Tuong Province - poem for Veterans' Day / Remembrance Day

Lawrence Hall
mhall46184@aol.com
poeticdrivel.blogspot.com

Craters in Kien Tuong Province

The craters quickly fill, and become ponds
For fishing and swimming, watering the cows
A baptism by nature in healing the earth
From the unoriginal sins of man

Fruit of the bomb and work of human hands
It will become for some a source of life
It will remain for us a stern reproach -
One cannot win the hearts and minds of the dead

And then we too become one with the lost
The craters quickly fill, and become ponds

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