Meditation at Omaha - Poetry Please - Sacrifice

Searing, Mike.

It is Featured in Wednesday Writing Essentials.

Really good piece of writing, thank you

This is simple yet profound expression at its best.

Sad and moving.

a very well written poem, thank you

Wow! We visited the beaches many years ago, and your words take me straight back. Beautiful poem.

Excellent!

very beautiful. very well written.

Well chosen topic and the weave around is so real !!!

WOW! Masterfully done. What strength but sadness in your words.

A fine meditation, mike. This reminds me of Homer, The Iliad, the waste of war, the sacrifices, lambs to the gods, our youths to the bloody fields/

The cost is mortifying.

Mike, these words are so beautifully expressed, by someone who has obviously been there. Thank you, Mike, for everything.

heart wrenching piece of work

What an incredibly powerful parallel you have drawn. I admit to having to look up a few words, but it was definitely worth the effort. Stunning poem Mike! Just haunting.

Dear Mike,
you're a fabulous poet. I wanna follow your style, where very smoothly you cover the prompt. Even Third hole attrated me a lot.This is a pure dedication towards your tribute for this special day. Last line is priceless.

Congratulations !!!

and whenever I see Mike's comment in my poem I am sure that I won some place....:)

Thanks

Congratulations! Great win with this one.

Ditto to Janet's comments.

Blessings ~
Rene

Excellent! A well deserved win!

Brilliant Mike! Congrats on your win :)

Congratulations, Mike! This one is tightly wound and emotional despite its elevated language. I think it's a great balance that works wonderfully!

Mike, this is such a well-deserved win in more ways than one, congratulations!

Many thanks for all the supportive and encouraging comments.

well done, Mike; I really like this

Mike: Poignant to me, are these particular lines:

"Behind my eyes a voice that is not mine
Insists it is my duty to obey.

Wherefrom, this voice, this insistent refrain,
Promising healing, but at what cost in pain?"

The intensity of this penning is obviously one of the reasons why we love your work so much. It can challenge our thinking and provoke us to seriously search harder for answers.

A visit to the cemetery at Colleville-Sur-Mer is something that would truly humble one. The marble crosses would certainly provoke the deepest sense of reverence for the tremendous losses of our American military on D-Day. Your meditation write significantly denotes w/in its content, the honor our men are due when we think of the overwhelming number of sacrifices suffered on D-Day.

Congratulations on a well-deserved win!!!

Barbra, you have recognised the core of this meditation.

To suffer slaughter in exchange for peace. / Wherefrom, this voice, this insistent refrain, / Promising healing, but at what cost in pain?

Mike, I would have been in tears for the whole of the visit. What future doctor lies there, perhaps with the answer to cancer or leukemia buried with him? What future statesman perhaps with the answer for world peace is recognized with a twisted X over his head. My heart hurts, now, just thinking of all the oceans of tears, cried by the mothers, fathers, sons and daughters, wives and sisters/brothers of those that gave the ultimate sacrifice. Damn it, now I'm sniffing again. Beautiful, moving, clarifying write. At what cost?
The cost is too dear, yet was paid. What were their thoughts as they jumped from ship to trudge to that beach? Perhaps that War IS Hell.
Powerful, sir, very powerful.
Blessings on your peace-loving spirit!
Wilka

Woeful and a bit sad. Inspiring word play.