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.
Thank you, Susan; and I agree that Andrew has done a marvelous job with the visuals!
Thank you, Paul. I've always been fascinated by Ozymandius. Your comment about my reading voice is encouraging; I'd never thought…
Thank you, Margaret, and thank you, Andrew! Your choices of images here, as well as the music, are lovely and…
Yes, and thank goodness for the optimism of your last line, Jeffrey. Some of us make a life's work of…
Thank you all so very much! As poets yourselves, you know well the thrill when something you've written touches others…
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.