This is based on the Coventry Blitz. I was brought up in Coventry, hanging around in the old cathedral that got hit and the ruins do talk. My great nan had part of her face blown off opening her front door during the war and my great granddad who was a glazier and a ambulance driver at night put the stain glass windows in the cathedral that replaced the old one. He was reportedly sitting on his roof the night of the Blitz watching lol…i didnt want to base this on fact, I have read facts, but I dont see myself in a good position to do one based on facts so much, but rather done with my twist lol :)

Night time hawks

the drone like an unbearable stomach knot

clenched between the witness eye of the moon and hate

a twisted moonlight sonata rendition travelling along the beams

staring directly down at a smoke screen

as they begin rejecting bombs from their wretched wombs

cutting the air, bringing down the blade

exploding the placid breathing below

in a mosaic of stain glass shards

as the saints break with the tranquil breeze

faces disfigured in patterns of distress

incendiary blows of un-deciphered deception

in a seething wrecking ball of time

hypnotized by the raging flames

engulfing the screams to immense the seams

the marker of undiagnosed clarity

as the world rocks by in manic chaos

all angles rushing in, consuming the threat

stamping it out with the bleeding betrayal

as bodies swiftly turn to ash as the fires slowly begin to extinguish

upright and haunting between the worlds

the sirens are scaring the stillness where they linger

death, the haunted touch

the hand that rocked the land with his unsympathetic chorus of disciples

in a swarm of penetrating crosses, iron boiled pupils

intense the rush, misplaced the need

in the rumble, the ruins of everything that stood in intimacy

the eyes still wavering in a mirage of events

of hundreds that became the fallen, inside nowhere, eternally lost

the flashbacks they pierce the peace

of this city shadowed in history

they could take peoples jobs, familiarity, their alter

families of loved ones laid out into the mourning days

but time healed, mended in remembrance defined

and buildings grew back stronger in forgiveness

they could never break the soul, the hope

the unity of prayer

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  • babyjingles1231 on Jul 9, 2010

    omg shadows……….although I am tired and have adhd,,,,, I always appreciate reading you :) tired and worn, P..<3

  • Tom Woodside on Jul 9, 2010

    Great write! you are so descriptive, not w/ just imagery, but w/ words meant to be felt. thank you!

  • wonder on Jul 9, 2010

    Words cant express how much Iiked this, its about a great thing and befittingly brought out as you saw it now in your version.This is art.

  • Christine Ramsay on Jul 9, 2010

    So many lives were affected by that blitz. A very powerfully written piece. Well done.

  • Lord Banks on Jul 9, 2010

    A brilliant poem that captures the horror of blanket bombing in WWII. Coventry was almost unrecognisable after the 1940 bombings. Great pictures too add to the impact. LB

  • PARAM on Jul 9, 2010

    excellent…. i like it…….

  • drelayaraja on Jul 9, 2010

    Great poem, i would say. It makes an impact in the reader’s mind.

  • Lipstick on Jul 9, 2010

    wow very intense
    very unique style
    this is poetry
    :)

  • Jimmy Shilaho on Jul 9, 2010

    Yes, time heals, but with lots of prayer and patience. A good one.

  • heidiefernandez on Jul 9, 2010

    well done!!! A very very good piece!!!

  • Mrjaialai on Jul 9, 2010

    Well done!

  • Atanacio on Jul 9, 2010

    very well written Kudos to you :)

  • giftarist on Jul 9, 2010

    Outstanding!

  • Ruby Hawk on Jul 9, 2010

    You did it well, thanks for your rendition.

  • drishti8 on Jul 11, 2010

    Well written piece.

  • aman259 on Jul 12, 2010

    Wow, that is wonderful information

  • Aileen Tecson on Jul 13, 2010

    after every fall there is hope awaits!

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