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Maggie Emmett
Poems
Nov 2014
Fear Corrodes ~ a Villanelle
Fear makes our rational minds corrode
Empty, paralysed and in shock
Our sense of hope starts to erode
Plane-bombed towers stretch and implode
Bone dust smothers a city block
Fear makes our rational minds corrode
Suicide bombs start to explode
None live to stand in courtroom dock
Our sense of hope starts to erode
Buses are blown up in the road
Red heart of a city they mock
Fear makes our rational minds corrode
Another gruesome episode
We’re held in a violent deadlock
Our sense of hope starts to erode
Where is the truth that we are owed?
Death’s time is set on Terror’s clock
Fear makes our rational minds corrode
Our sense of hope starts to erode
Villanelle form. Written first 24th October 2005 & edited several times since.
#fear
#death
#time
#clock
#terror
#shock
#villanelle
#suicide-bombs
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Maggie Emmett
Adelaide South Australia
(Adelaide South Australia)
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