All day, day after day, they're bringing them home,
they're picking them up, those they can find, and bringing them home,
they're bringing them in, piled on the hulls of Grants, in
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on the long runways, the howl of their homecoming rises surrounding them like their last moments.......//// homecoming hearts always feel happy, then their tears are the tears of happiness, their screaming is the scream of the getting back the smell of birth-land, their every nerve then feels the delightful rapture of paradise; greatly written this poem; enjoy to read
'telegrams tremble like leaves from a wintering tree and the spider grief swings in his bitter geometry' - good as verses, but what is this poem about? Is it about bring home the bodies of the American soldiers who died in the 'Vietnam War'? Congratulations on your poem's selection as the 'Modern Poem of the Day'!
This grave poem deserved somber honor instead of the empty-headed, empty-hearted, soulless, disgusting remarks that PH allows to flood a once honorable site for lovers of literature to congregate and exchange ideas and ideals.
Powerful poem of sadness. Truman should have been charged with treason for lying. Then Bush, Blair and cohorts. We let them off easy thats why wars dont end.
Kumala kumalal savesta