Here's A Poem Red Pen (my critique group) Never Liked

 

Wall of Stone

I kneel at the Wailing Wall
Shrouded by Solomon’s splendor

Memories tear down out ancient stone

A woman pulls buckets of dust from a well

A vulture in an olive tree feasts on Judah’s flesh

A Centurion casts lots for a Yeshua’s cloak

Zion’s boon gives way to Mars’s bane

Priests of the Law surrender to the blade

Engines of war crawl towards Megiddo

A Zealot’s grief empties into the Dead Sea

“Never Again!” echoes through Masada’s ruins

The final child howls from tombs hewn of pain

I subsist on the ledge of the Wailing Wall

Solomon’s splendor welcomes with a specter’s love

The last Roman spear falls from the sky

           

----12/3/2007

 
 

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