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Christopher Roe
USA
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Christopher Roe
has written nineteen volumes of
poetry as well as his memoir, "Dead Rainbows". His poems
have appeared in Vox Poetica, The Monarch Review, The
Forge Journal, Apollo's Lyre, Black Heart Magazine
and Your Daily Poem among others. His paintings are in
private collections in the United States, Canada and
Europe.
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Only man aspires
Startled schools of
fish
darted from the path
of an leviathan rudely
crashing through the waves
belching smoke and spitting
death across the seas.
A cheetah lifted its head
and watched in mild amusement
as an angry steel beast
rattled and crashed its way
noisily across the veldt trailing
dust and death in its wake.
A timid sparrow watched
with sad brown eyes
as a iron behemoth roared
past, struggling clumsily
to rise on silver wings
to drop death from the sky.
Creatures of the swamp watched
the dragons rise on tails of fire
from their scorched concrete nests
causing the earth to tremble
and parting the clouds
to become distant stars.
They watched and wondered
if those of changing skins
who aspired to be more than they were
had finally gone for good
they watched and they waited
knowing death would come.
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