Winter Sonnet: Awaiting The Iraq War Poem by Max Reif

Winter Sonnet: Awaiting The Iraq War

Rating: 3.8


Snow of innocence, cover this fallen world.
Your blanket blots, in purifying white,
And blurs, our human legacies of blight.
Hail, flurry-flying flag of peace unfurled!

Oh, stop us in our common rush to war,
Our daily rounds that drive us all askew!
Blizzard the footprints of the past with new
Fields of such unity as no boot will mar.

Your mantle over all created things
God from His thoughtful, furrowed brow lets fly
Down through the grey, impenetrable sky,
Connectedness—White Revelation—brings.

Put to sleep our angry flames of violence.
Freeze us, even, till we hear Your Silence.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Duncan Wyllie 02 April 2006

This is amazing and I feel that it is words such as these that can really make the world a better place.Love Duncan

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Philippa Lane 04 August 2005

This is a truly splendid poem. Congratulations, and thank you for writing it, Max. Your sentiments are mine...

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Shelley B. Keats 16 July 2005

excellent! It appears stronger than your free verse efforts...

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Uriah Hamilton 11 July 2005

Truly a beautiful poem.

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