…in a time seemingly hellbent on hate? That’s what Phil Woods and I both explored through poems last week in our responses to Charlottesville. Please check out the poems today in the Colorado Independent. To read them, click news poetry. And please, if you are up for it, write a response. We need more conversations about what’s happening.
All the best,
Rosemerry
I read your poem last week printed it told everyone who would listen about it. I carry it in my heart. Thank you
Jan
Thank you, Jan ⦠spreading peace. Itâs possible.
Love
r
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From: “comment-reply@wordpress.com” Reply-To: Date: Wednesday, August 23, 2017 at 6:44 AM To: Rosemerry Trommer Subject: [A Hundred Falling Veils] Comment: “How Do We Show Love …”
Rosemerry, your voice, your message is a plus in the mix flooding us since Charlottesville. As your title reflects, Charlottesville is simply the current horror – not the first, won’t be the last. I like your focus on “peace”. I brace myself for the “war against …” rhetoric – words that shift us into a different sort of hate. Clearly I find what’s going on in politics and supremacist movements despicable, but I strive for balance, for peace within in the hope that my energy can influence others around me. You and Phil Woods are spreading such energy with your poetry. Bravo! Peace indeed “something to serve, something to practice” – counter-balancing agitators intent on stirring things into riots.
Thank you, Jazz, for this thoughtful comment.
“The war against …” you are so right, those are words that shift us into hate, too. These are difficult times. Are they always difficult times? I could have added a lot of other names to that title.
Sending you hugs and, yes, peace. r
I, too, liked your focus on peace, Rosemerry, Virginia is my home. I live 45 miles from Charlottesville and was on vacation at Virginia Beach when the tragic events in Charlottesville occurred. I posted the following senryu on my blog, aholdingplace.com. I also posted a longer poem, “May We Remember”
in honor of Heather Heyer.
When hate comes knocking
we must turn it away
without locking heart’s door.