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write
with a broken heart
write
wounded
write
with your tears
write with your fears
write
with your hope
write
with the diamonds
of separation
turn pain into blues
someday
there will be good news…
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do you
know what it’s like
to come under
mortar fire?
do you know
what it’s like
to pray
between the pauses
of the firing and detonations?
do you know
what it’s like
to think this may be your last
day or hour or minute or second?
do you know what it’s like?
do you know what it’s like?
Dusk Is A Purple Heart
from blueness
above blueness
crossing
jagged foam
to verdant green
tropical water world
where the wind
is a bloody cloth
where songs are sung
by machine guns
where songs are sung
by machine guns
where sun and moon
are ambushed
where dusk
is a purple heart
and Buddha is thrown
from helicopters
uttering haikus…
Lamont B. Steptoe is a poet / photographer / publisher born and raised in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the winner of an American Book Award and a Pew Fellowship in the Arts. Steptoe is a father, grandfather, Vietnam veteran, founder of Whirlwind Press and graduate of Temple University.
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