Garden Of War Comments

I thought of the line from MACBETH about the killing of children in a merciless war: DID HEAVEN LOOK ON AND NOT TAKE THEIR PART? Unfortunately, yes. The only help available to save innocent people will come from other innocent people who provide the shelter in Finland you talked about in your prose comment. This is a powerful poem that makes the suffering unbearable. You prove yourself to be the cosmopolitan in your self-description. The linking of such opposites as GARDEN and BATTLEFIELD is especially eloquent. Tje war photographer Don McCullin spoke at a local college after photographing warfare in Nigeria in the 1970s. He said to the college audience, WHAT GOOD ARE BEAUTIFUL PICTURES IF THEY SHOW A 12-YEAR-OLD BOY WHOSE LEGS WERE BLOWN OFF BY A MINE? He was questioning the very foundations of his art. uncertain if it could make a difference in the lives of victims. But what better role for art than to arouse people, encourage them to help the innocent. Your poem fulfills that role of arr admirably.

Wow! I love this. Very profound. I have voted it a ten.