For the 5th anniversary of 9-11 I thought it would be interesting to present a challenge so we all would have a common thread that binds our words.

I will keep this simple since each of us has our own memories of how that day played out.  I will give you your first and last line and the entire center should be a reflection of what you saw, what you heard and/or what you felt on that day and/or all the days since.

  I haven't done this yet, I have only written these first and last lines.  I am kind of rusty so I don't even have any thoughts of what direction I will take this, so I am looking forward to the best poems coming from you.

First line:

 Darkness rains from clouds of ash

Last line:

Too well, I recall that day

Have fun and thank you for taking the challenge. ~ Sherry

 

I finished mine.  I will post it here so the challenge can stay up.

 

Innocence Lost 

Darkness rains from clouds of ash

As The Towers tumble down

A heap of rubble is what remained

Beneath a tattered angel’s gown

The smoke was thick and chaos reigned

We must save all those within

But as the burning walls crashed to the ground

We watched the horror of terror win

Angered by fear as lives were lost

Each one more painful than the last

The heartless Beasts had made their point

As the first stone of war was cast

Bitter tears the Eagle cried

For her children gone too soon

And the sun in sadness left the sky

Giving way to a blood-stained moon

Our world was tossed and turned that day

But in united bond we stood

From sea to ever shining sea

All of America in brotherhood

Now freedom’s fate is in our hands

Is it worth the fight by you and I

Or will terror come to rule our land

And take another piece of our sky

I don’t care to live until the time

When all our freedom goes away

9-11 showed what we have to lose, and

Too well, I recall that day

Sherry Gail Heim

September 9, 2006

Copyright © Sherry Gail Heim 2006