The End of the Argument
by Martina Reisz Newberry
Adam’s torso, it is said, was made from earth
taken from Babylonia. That may be,
but it’s all-fall-down time there now; it’s watch-out-
the-sky’s-on-fire time. The burquas are burning,
Ogals and gutrahs are birds escaping flames,
escaping smoke and gunfire. Kaffiyeh fly
as well, but not far. Ezekiel’s fire would
be a tender release compared to this
vestibule of pain. I watch humankind’s coil
unravel. War turns us to confetti,
rain on a dismal parade. The proud Duranni Empire is ash
and shadow. Our restoration promises
reek of braised flesh and singed hair.
The Quran spells out equality. I think it means that all
sweet souls, gender aside, may die the same deaths.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- How to Locate, Hire, and Work With an Article Writer
- To a President. by Walt Whitman
- Eve- Song by Mary Gilmore
- Attack On The Ad-Man
- Ode to My Guitar by William Wright Harris
- The Captive Trumpeter by William Somervile
- Stupid by Raymond Carver
- Sonnet 67: Ah, wherefore with infection should he live by William Shakespeare
- Валерий Брюсов – К.Д. Бальмонту (Как прежде, мы вдвоем, в ночном кафе. За входом)
- Sonnet IV by William Shakespeare
- Hymn To Death poem – Alfred Austin
- Валерий Брюсов – Игорю Северянину (Строя струны лиры клирной)
- Владимир Костров – Бедное сердце болит спозаранку
- Loitering with a Vacant Eye poem – A. E. Housman
- A Winter Evening poem – Alexander Pushkin
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