Now the bells speak with their tongues of bronze.
Now the bells open their mouths of bronze to say:
Listen to the bells a world away.
Listen to the bell in the ruins
of a city where children gathered copper shells like beach glass,
and the copper boiled in the foundry, and the bell born
in the foundry says: I was born of bullets, but now I sing
of a world where bullets melt into bells.
Listen to the bell
in a city where cannons from the armies of the Great War
sank into molten metal bubbling like a vat of chocolate,
and the many mouths that once spoke the tongue of smoke
form the one mouth of a bell that says: I was born of cannons,
but now I sing of a world where cannons melt into bells.
Listen to the bells in a town with a flagpole on Main Street,
a rooster weathervane keeping watch atop the Meeting House,
the congregation gathering to sing in times of great silence.
Here the bells rock their heads of bronze as if to say:
Melt the bullets into bells, melt the bullets into bells.
Here the bells raise their heavy heads as if to say:
Melt the cannons into bells, melt the cannons into bells.
Here the bells sing of a world where weapons crumble deep
in the earth, and no one remembers where they were buried.
Now the bells pass the word at midnight in the ancient language
of bronze, from bell to bell, like ships smuggling news of liberation
from island to island, the song rippling
through the clouds.
Now the bells chime like the muscle beating in every chest,
heal the cracks in the bell of every face listening to the bells.
The chimes heal the cracks in the bell of the moon.
The chimes heal the cracks in the bell of the world.
MY POEM COVER
It revolves around where twenty students and six educators lost their
lives to a gunman sometimes ago. “The poems attempt to create a community built not just of grief, but of hope, too … The poems assert the possibility of language rather than bullets to open up our veins.
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my dear readers, do visit again to enjoy another flower of poetry. Thanks for stopping by
In poetry,
@Kabeertijani
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@wafrica Thx for visiting. I thought I added the tag. Do chk again now.
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Hey i think you will want to join something called the ifc there is a contest going on about poetry and i think this might be able to compete here is the link to the contest https://steemit.com/contest/@apolymask/information-finding-championship-season-1-round-21 hope you join good luck!
@xomegax thanks for stopping by and informing me about this contest.
I will write my post entry into @apolymask contest now
Oh cool good luck hope you can win your first round!
Yes... I hope so
When you have bandwidth, readjust your fourth tag? Well done
@vanessahampton thanks for reading.
The tag is correct
Yh, didn't know that. So you just taught me something. Thanks
My pleasure
Beautiful poem @kabeertijani and I love the picture too.
@joalvarez thank you