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
- Robert Burns: The Song Of Death: Scene-A Field of Battle. Time of the day-evening. The wounded and dying of the victorious army are supposed to join in the following song.
- El Extraviado
- The Indian To His Love by William Butler Yeats
- Adam: A Sacred Drama. Act 5. by William Cowper
- Gleaners Of Fame poem – Alfred Austin
- Стефан Малларме – Ее ногтей ожив, что ожил из пароса
- Testing The Bomb by Shel Silverstein
- Владимир Маяковский – Два опиума
- No Master by William Henry Davies
- The Hon. Sec. poem – John Betjeman poems
- Writing to Onegin by Ruth Padel
- Sonnet 89: Say that thou didst forsake me for some fault by William Shakespeare
- This by Ralph Angel
- Two Songs Of Advent by Yvor Winters
- Impostor’s Coronation
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