Two Poems:
“Como Tu / Like You / Like Me” by Richard Blanco
“How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons)” by Barbara Kingsolver
A Poem:
Ascending
by ljkemp
Like thirst, like hunger,
we ache with the need to save ourselves.
Bodies in rows beneath the ground,
archives of lives lived and lost,
neatly aligned in formation awaiting
a messiah.
Are they under our feet, or all around us
same as the urns and the unknowns,
the ones left at sea or on foreign land
the ones burst into flames in flight
or in fire or in furnace.
Behold your elements reassembled
as pieces of sky, ascending
without regret.
It is in the spirit we go on
forever.
Italics:
First sentence is from the Blanco poem, the final italics are from the Kingsolver poem.
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