Things shifted for them suddenly
From seeing their folks in the morn
To mourning their folks in the sea.
Mike Ruskovich lives in Grangeville, Idaho. He taught high school English for thirty-six years. He and his wife have four children.
Excellent, Warren. Thanks to your letting me know about this leadership change, I see the BBC hopes for a "smooth…
Thank you, Susan, for your encouraging words! They mean a lot. I am so glad you enjoyed the poem and…
Thank you for your feedback Paul. I didn´t realize that temperate regions can have severe winters, but then I read…
Martin: A very well-written, evocative, and pleasing poem. The rhythm echoes each trudging step in a measured, hopeful way. The…
Great work Warren! I love the meter and rhyme combination, and the very apt message. Well done!
What a powerful message in such a tiny package!
Well done, Mike!
And such a skillful manipulation of words!
I do like this condensed whole food for thought. Brilliant.
PS Captain Smith came from my home town but he’d moved before I arrived.
Just not attracted to any verse on this subject. Seems a bit harsh.
B Stock, you may want to avoid ‘Tempest’, by Bob Dylan. Forty-five quatrains about the Titanic published in 2012, one hundred years after the tragedy.
Nice and compact; it’s kind of haiku/koan -ish.
Very good – and despite the tragedy – very funny; yet moving in an odd way. I like this a lot.
Cleverly concise and concisely clever. Very cool.
The poem is in the form and style of the Greek or Roman epigram: a short effusion of two to four lines on any subject, serious or comic.