War is Obsolete
These are poems about war and other calamities such as school shootings and floods...
War is Obsolete
by Michael R. Burch
War is obsolete;
even the strange machinery of dread
weeps for the child in the street
who cannot lift her head
to reprimand the Man
who failed to countermand
her soft defeat.
STYX
These are poems the River Styx and Charon. According to Greek mythology, Charon is the ferryman who transports the dead over the River Styx into Hades, the afterworld. There are also poems about death, dying and crossing over into the dark unknown …
Styx
by Michael R. Burch
Black waters, deep and dark and still . . .
all men have passed this way, or will.
