Thursday, September 11, 2008

100 Words - 24

September 11 Airplanes

Jet Planes became weapons,
silver bullets hurled by hate
at abstractions of greed,
shattered real lives,
orphaned real children
widowed real wives.

Victoria Sullivan Hendricks - 9-11-2007

--from One Step Removed

4 comments:

Kir said...

so powerful.

Lori Lavender Luz said...

What perfect words.

Anonymous said...

Profound six lines that pinpoint the devastating event. Very powerful.

Mary said...

Your poem is powerful and poignant,has so many emotions in so few words. Stunning!