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Happy Valentines to all at the den this day. I ask that you wish me luck and for those that pray…then please pray. I have just recently been asked to write a book based on one mans journey through hell and his escape from it. He was held prisoner in a Nazi prisoner of war camp in the waning days of W.W. II

I will be doing a great deal of research and will be conducting interviews with this man. He is now 89 years old and is a hero to all that believe in freedom. Pray that I will do this man the justice that he so richly deserves. I will be pouring myself into this and it is my hope that your prayers will sustain me in this effort. Thank you to all whom I can call friend. Blessings to you all.

Allen

Saturday, February 12, 2005

Peasant Virgins

Though the river be wide,

and visions narrow and far away

There remain the Troops of austere madness

Which rape and pillage the day.

Rampant are they on the hearts of this torn and bitter land,

where the vilification of the innocent is part of the global plan.

For on the hills and plains, which stretch as far as the eye, can see,

Come now dark priest attired in long flowing robes of insincerity.

Spiteful are their intentions, and malicious their ways

As they give forth false but opulent praise.

For simple are the peasant virgins

With their dowry filled eyes…

Believing…even hoping

That there is reason

for the shadows which cloud their minds.

Betrothed to none, but promised to all,

They stand with black bouquets

And await the dark priest's call.

now unto the alter of sacrifice they come

With their purity lain bare

And no one, to care

That they in their innocence

have surrendered to the dark and dying son.

Vanquished now are their gowns of white

Darkened and stained from the evil

which surrounds us this night.

Lord of truth…

Give us now

Our spiritual insight.

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Reviewed by m j hollingshead

Reviewed on February 17, 2005

thought provoking

Reviewed by Tracey L. O' Very (Reader)

Reviewed on February 14, 2005

Allen, This is so dark and heartfelt ~~ Black boquets.
You will do him the justice he deserves. No doubt in my mind. This poem says so! your heart so opened to all there is to be felt by all. Always you do! your heart never closes, not for one moment.
Congratulations and you will do him proud! No doubts in my mind at all.
Tracey

Reviewed by Judy Lloyd (Reader)

Reviewed on February 13, 2005

I hope that you succeed in your book in today's Sunday paper it tells the story of the USS. Roper which sank a German U-Boat off the coast of Virginia. There were many such cases in fact the U-Boats sank 198 ships off the shores of America. Our country could have been taken over too. You have honored this man and we must realize how close we all came to being in their shoes.

Reviewed by Felix Perry

Reviewed on February 13, 2005

All the best on this projrct that you will be undertaking as I know it will be very painful and difficult to write. As a writer of a war story I know this from my own experience, on the brighter side it is also very fulfilling when it is on the bookstore shelf.

Luck,
Felix

Reviewed by David Young

Reviewed on February 12, 2005

I wish your endeavor best wishes. I am sure your words will rise to the occasion. It was a very nice piece of poetry.

Reviewed by Lori Moore

Reviewed on February 12, 2005

Excellent write. Good luck with your endeavor.

Reviewed by Cynth'ya Reed

Reviewed on February 12, 2005

JW, I had the priviledge just this past Monday (2/7) of meeting in person one of the Tuskegee Airman who flew WWII combat missions in a segregated American military. He is 87, and is as sharp as the days gone by, practicing a different kind of patriotic pride that, in my opinion, was free from the arrogance that was tossed in their paths to success--just because of the color of their skin. No special program, the man was just talking with a friend about natural healing and chi, which is how he said he beat so many illnesses that are ultimately stress related. Racism is a stressor that creates stress related illnesses--but this regiment of black men in the 1940s, while fighting Hitler's regime, used Eastern practices to literally stay sane in a war that didn't give them credit for having the genius that God bestowed upon them.

This is who I thought about when I see the wisdom in your words: http://history.acusd.edu/gen/WW2Timeline/Tuskegee.html

Okay, perhaps this is one of my really "out there" interpretations. I only speak what is spoken to me from within. So I say "Thank you" for allowing the muse to move historically within you. The black bouquets of history have a richness all their own.
blessin's
cynth'ya lewis reed

Reviewed by jude forese

Reviewed on February 12, 2005

i'm sure you will do the subject justice ...

some really outstanding imagery! very poetent poetry ...

Reviewed by E T Waldron

Reviewed on February 12, 2005

Wow a powerful poem filled with terrible truth! Allen I'm so happy for you and of course you will have my best thoughts and prayers behind you for the long run! Just let your spirit soar and it will be great!;-) My best to you!

love eileen

Reviewed by Ed Matlack

Reviewed on February 12, 2005

I wish you glad tidings and luck with your new venture for this gentleman you speak of, but also I am upset that we won't see that much of you here if you are writing a book...sorry to be selfish, but I truly value your input and advice and reviews, and I will miss these little bits of you that you post pretty much daily...Find peace, friend Al and I wish you well and hope to see you and hear from you in the future...Ed & Rufuz (w00f)

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