Inspired by Jacob Lawrence's The Wall, 1941 and 11-9-1989 Berlin Wall
Ms. Haiku
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A wall makes no sound. It is built with brick
made from silenced hands; hands that don't question
four corners of a room without windows,
hands that forget warmth from the exploding
sun, hands not washed in the mutable sea.
Builders of silence lose their tongues. Some see
the wall as a scar. Scar tissue layers
surround what they build, what they cannot touch,
what they can't ask for help to deconstruct.
Only the living feel remorse. Rain
bounces off the wall into opened mouths.
Stones, pieces of glass, broken pipe battle
each ossified layer. Crumbling, the wall
concedes defeat against organized words.
I can't find an image of this painting of this on the internet, sorry about that. I plan to submit my poetry to the Yale Series of Younger Poets contest which is why I would like any criticism you have. I've wanted to do this for years, but I'm finally going to do it this year. Poets submit manuscripts between early October to mid November and they must be younger than 40. For more information go to
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/poetry.html#rules
made from silenced hands; hands that don't question
four corners of a room without windows,
hands that forget warmth from the exploding
sun, hands not washed in the mutable sea.
Builders of silence lose their tongues. Some see
the wall as a scar. Scar tissue layers
surround what they build, what they cannot touch,
what they can't ask for help to deconstruct.
Only the living feel remorse. Rain
bounces off the wall into opened mouths.
Stones, pieces of glass, broken pipe battle
each ossified layer. Crumbling, the wall
concedes defeat against organized words.
I can't find an image of this painting of this on the internet, sorry about that. I plan to submit my poetry to the Yale Series of Younger Poets contest which is why I would like any criticism you have. I've wanted to do this for years, but I'm finally going to do it this year. Poets submit manuscripts between early October to mid November and they must be younger than 40. For more information go to
http://yalepress.yale.edu/yupbooks/poetry.html#rules
There is no such thing as leftover pizza. There is now pizza and later pizza. - anonymous
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
The risk I took was calculated, but man, am I bad at math - The Mincing Mockingbird
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