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The Crescent, The Star and The Cross

What covenant calls for a knife, fitted to a father's hand, to spill a son's most sacred life across the sandals and the sand? Where lies the weight of risen light, on crescents, stars or crosses? Which marks the time with mirth and might? Counts gains, dismisses losses? Without a thought, the seas do part. Without a word, the earth grows old. Without an eye there, is no art. Without a soul, no truth is told. In timeless rhythms of centuries past, spoken words, not meant to last, decried by bards though sung by hordes, left mindless minions subjects of the sword.

Copyright © August 2008 Gene Dixon


This Poem was Critiqued By: Claire H. Currier On Date: 2008-08-23 21:40:13
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Thank you for posting and being a part of the link. This is so very well written, presented, fills one thoughts and emotions to the limits. God Bless, Claire


This Poem was Critiqued By: Mark Steven Scheffer On Date: 2008-08-18 09:10:45
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Gino, Shall we meet in the Levant, me, you and GW? I'll mediate. And bring the Yeungling. We can sit around a fire and read Gospel parables of the Lord. Nice. But of course. MSS
This Poem was Critiqued By: marilyn terwilleger On Date: 2008-08-17 16:28:06
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 1.00000
Hi Gene....I read so many poems that are written about the war but I have never read one as eloquent as this one. I think if you are going to capture an audiance and cause them to read your poems, one must hook them with the title and the first line. You have accomplished both here. To spill a son's most sacred life across the sandals and the sand...is both poignant and heart breaking. Who can understand the mind set of parents that let their child become a human bomb? A very thought provoking poem.....M.
This Poem was Critiqued By: James C. Horak On Date: 2008-08-13 13:47:47
Critiquer Rating During Critique: 10.00000
Welcome, Mr. Dixon, as well your spendid poem, one whose moral core fills a void so lacking in poetry focused purely on excursions within first person realms. That so many religions posture, at variance to the most basic of all human teaching, an imposition of intolerance and militancy, becomes apparent to any student of history. So much so, that it is only the most ignorant and callous that drag references to religious institutions fostering them ideally in song and verse. Why it is I find your poem such a refreshing exception. All of which you say here, all of which you valiantly express. Everyday, they lay about..."mindless minions subjects of the sword." Sending sons and now daughters as if they went to save anything more than the face of avarice and lust that despises needful change. Thank God, man, finally a good anti-war poem. JCH
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