New Poem, Rage

Hi Friends,

I have a new poem entitled Rage that is published on Mike Maggio’s website. The poem is in response to the events of October 7.

Judy

Rage

(in remembrance of the October 7 Massacre)

It disturbs, this slanting light
yellow & rapturous
and once a part of promise.

Mocking now, and strange
these sighing palms
that stirred with expectation.

How like betrayal
the stillness of desert flowers
quiet, beautiful, unfaded.

I was not an alien here.
I was as one with the light
the palms, the cactus.

Why did the earth I loved
not cry out for me
as my life’s blood
was sought
and taken.