Below is a poem I wrote called 'Warsaw'. In light of Sylvie's lessons on how the world around us can evoke whimsical, spiritual or existential feelings; I thought I would write a little something about how I reflected on Warsaw in Germany, in Holocaust milieu.
Warsaw
Grey jungle flusters
Masses wildly subsist
Shun vile clusters
We scantly exist
Divest antique cheeks
We taboo order
Venom alone bespeaks
Quell the border!
We scantly exist
We scantly exist
By Billie Mackness
Here is a video by the band Live, in response to 9/11. It was an emotional experience for the lead singer as an American Buddhist and this song was his way of expressing his feelings about life and such events through song. I think my poem and this song exemplifies how in hard times or faced with hard decisions, humanity turns their faces upwards to the sky and in prose and reflection, reaches out to spirituality.
Photo
http://www.sxc.hu/browse.phtml?f=download&id=124803
Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpCa7Ay596M&ob=av2n
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