Poem Begins With P
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Drawing inspiration from Sappho, Mary Oliver, Greek myths and European fairy tales, Poem Begins With P, traces America's relationship with her Beloved through the first two years of the Covid-19 pandemic. The poems follow a roller coaster of fear, heartbreak, anger, and grief, but through it all, America's love remains strong.
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Poem Begins With P - America Christian
I Have Lost Track
I have lost track of the days
Somehow it is Monday
And I killed a bug by bashing it to bits with my hairbrush
We fill our glasses half full
Say a prayer
Then another
3.30.2020
Bold Tongued And Vast Of Heart
I strike the metal breastplate
Just to hear it ring
Bold tongued I speak
And vast of heart I love
I am my own hero
4.20.2020
Romeo
Romeo
Do you smell the roses?
Romeo will you sing for me?
Romeo I miss your face
5.13.2020
Morning
It seems to rain each night
I wonder if these raindrops are the tears of God
Or angels
Heaven have mercy
This is terrible time
With so many souls
And so many bodies
Left unburied
We mourn the nameless and the named
And still the clock ticks
And money percolates like a broken coffee maker
One
Single
Drop
At a
Time
Oh to be rich is to be free!
5.17.20
New York Times Sunday May 24th 2020 Early Edition
this is what they do when there’s a war
I think?
way back in the time of wwi
back when we couldn’t imagine any worse
or any other wars
they used to print up names like this
and the families would press their noses up to the newsprint
and pray one of their boys wasn’t on the list
that was a hundred and something
years ago
front page of the new york times
it’s still around
and the names are every kind of person
I can’t imagine one hundred thousand in general
or that many funerals specifically
(not that those left behind were allowed
to take small comfort in the usual
mourning rituals)
but look
how one/one hundredth is what fits on the page
we’ll write about this in the history books
if we’re still around
5.23.2020
God Weeps
I imagine it must be hard to be God
Who gave us beauty
And hope
And light
And joy
And laughter
And friendship
And love
It must be hard
To know the lives and deaths of all of us
The fates of every living creature
Jesus wept
is the shortest sentence of the Bible
It is just two words but
I know he was ashamed of us
I know he was hurting because of us
Maybe the saying should go:
Man makes plans
God weeps
Agony agony
And yet we still make God suffer
How dare we?
6.2.2020
For The Lost, Who Happens To Share My Birthday
Oh millennium child
I picture you as an infant
Bright eyed and smiling
In your mother’s arms
Your sister is calling out your name
Oh brother where art thou?
I pray you will be found
Living and breathing
I pray and I pray and I pray
Too many sons and daughters and children
Leave only a photograph behind
Oh God
Oh Mother Mary
Do not let another family feel what it feels to lose a son
6.2.2020
(This young Black man, who disappeared after a Black Lives Matter demonstration was violently disrupted by police, was found safe and sound a few days after his family filed the missing persons report. He had been taken in by strangers.)
The Geese: A Reflection
There were