#political #poetry #COVID19
onshore wind
singing in the key of blue minor
the wind carries the sorrow of the world
in a wordless universal tongue
wrapping me in a melody that
penetrates my chest with a sea of grief
midnight waves punctuated by cymbals
commemorating each new disaster
slosh against bone as the dead rise
to dance a mirthless jig
out of time but never out of mind
prophets say summer is the quietus
that will still this hellish song
but i am not deceived by this propaganda
and refusing this cup
weep useless tears as the sea level rises
© 2020 RC deWinter
Published in The Abstract Elephant Magazine @Abstract_Elphnt September 2020
You can read this and my other #poem, "retrodegradation," here, along with my scathing commentary as to why they were written.
abstractelephant.com/2020/09/14/com…
Let's make that @Abstrct_Elphnt Magazine
#justshootme
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