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Monday, June 23, 2008

Monday Poem: Refugee

[Every Monday (until I run out of them), I’m posting a poem of mine that has fallen out from the submission process for some reason. In most cases, it will be one where I’ve received no response to my submission for at well over a year or more. Maybe the magazine I submitted them to has folded, the submission was lost in the post, or whatever. So, these poems can be seen as lost, orphans, of uncertain status, or something like that.]

These poems are also posted to ABCTales.



Refugee



Loose hands fall by her sides.

She stands, expecting nothing,

except more of this world's pain

to fall on her narrowed shoulders.



Defeated by the weight of a life

of enduring, unending,

lacking in all the promises

that princesses always disdain.



She has a world only to survive,

only to live through, to endure,

while we walk in through spring green

and hear only promise in the birdsong.





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