[Critique Group 2] FW: poem/critique group two, 10-27-22

[Valerie Moreno]

Our body is not made of iron, our strength not that of stone. Live and
hope in the Lord and let your service be according to reason.
-Clare of Assisi
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spiritwind at pmpmail.com

Original Message: 
From: Valerie Moreno <spiritwind at pmpmail.com>
To: spiritwind at pmpmail.com
Subject: poem/critique group two, 10-27-22
Date: 
Mon, 17 Oct 2022 17:52:11 -0500

Unholy Glimpses

Across the morning sky
light and color paint 
questions with no set answers.

How will the human folk be this day?
Will they acknowledge the beaming sun,
grumble at the silver rain
bathing the earth so thirsty for nurture?
Shall they give themselves a gift of quiet
or dance to the torrant of noise:
cel phones,
radio/Tv
laptop and AI intrusions?

In the drowned-out wind sound:
babies cry
dogs bark
cats survey their territory
as the sun climbs higher.

Flowers bloom after nights of volent exchange,
physical reminders of lost belonging--
children shiver from lack of 
  unfound security.

Earth shares her green and gold,
sky, her pudgy cloud-pictures
for those blessed enough to see them
amid the calamity of grand boredom.

Valerie Moreno
Our body is not made of iron, our strength not that of stone. Live and
hope in the Lord and let your service be according to reason.
-Clare of Assisi
______
spiritwind at pmpmail.com