Morning, Noon and Night
By Thomas Field
Email: tknightfield at hotmail dot com
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March 20, 2008
On a sultry afternoon
Somewhere between sun and moon
While the planet tossed and turned
People danced while cities burned
Like some ancient howling beast
First the slaughter then the feast
Stuck in tar pits of the past
Trying to make the party last
On a black and endless night
Somewhere between wrong and right
While we stumbled in the dark
Hounds of Hell began to bark
Like the hunter and the prey
Every dog would have his day
When the last became the first
The best were eaten by the worst
On a sad and sallow morn
Somewhere between whole and torn
While we floated on our raft
Came the dreadful morning aft
Like the sun arrived too late
We surrendered to our fate
Nevermore a life sublime
Now gone to dust and lost in time
About the author:
I, Thomas Knight Field am a fifth generation Dallasite. My paternal grandfather Joe Yancy Field attended Stanford at the turn of the century where he played on the football team and was a roommate of Herbert Hoover. After Hoover became president Joe was invited to the White House. I still have the invitation. This poem is about the war in Iraq in particular and the human condition in general.I realize it's bit depressing, but poems just come out that way sometimes. You can't sugarcoat some things
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