TRIBUTE TO 9/11

Two poems from 9/11

No Thought of Surrender

(Written September 11, 2001)

Anguish spreads blood red

across heart and mind

numb with inability to

comprehend the unrightable

written eternally

on our national psyche.

Never began today with

blue sky and warm

smiles and no thought

of nightmares raining

ash and cinder,

no thought of surrender

of all we once knew

as norm.

Our knees bend with

involuntary motion, while

our souls roil in

anguish,

and blood red images

of all we hold sacred, dear,

safe, secure

spreads across our broken hearts

and minds and the cry rises

in unity:

dear God help us.

Peggy Eldridge-Love

YOU BECKON

 

For This Purpose

(Written in response to September 11, 2001)

We grapple, of the opinion

there are answers buried deep

in the inner linings of

our experience.

We are humbled, broken into

shards of the humanity

we had almost forgotten

was the purpose

of our being here.

Peggy Eldridge-Love

YOU BECKON

These two poems I included in my first poetry collection, "You Beckon". They were a direct response and reaction to September 11, 2001. Thank you for allowing me to revisit and share them with you today on this twelfth anniversary of that horrific event. We are still searching for the same answers we found ourselves asking that first day.

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