Resurrecting an old poem in remembrance of that fateful day on 9/11.
Tuesday's Towers
Tuesday for two
towers with a view.
Rattled awake.
Alarm, denial, grief
stare into the serpent's eye.
Humans falling from the sky.
Debris rains in gray, black billows
churning guts, clutching pillows.
No mistake
lives taken by a thief.
Time stands, still,
a dusting of September chill.
Blown apart,
airplanes, pieces of your heart.
Fallen icon's wake.
Staring, crying, disbelief.
A sea of blue
two towers taken out of view.
~Deb
Tuesday's Towers - Never Forget
Re: Tuesday's Towers - Never Forget
Timely.
Glad it's not too sentimental.
"serpent's eye" = evil?
Whose point of view is it? The towers?
Glad it's not too sentimental.
"serpent's eye" = evil?
Whose point of view is it? The towers?
Re: Tuesday's Towers - Never Forget
Hi E,
POV? It was mine but it could be the tower's POV too. I actually like that notion.
Yes, the serpent depicts evil here but that isn't my overall take on all snakes. They are rather beautiful creatures.
I used to be a flight attendant and was scared out of my mind for all the flight crews out that day. It was a complete gut-punch for me and many others. The people I know who still fly for the airlines continue to struggle with it, pilots, flight attendants, gate agents, passengers, everyone became paranoid - lots of stuff went haywire and flying as I knew it changed dramatically after this horrible event.
The sea of blue depicts sadness for fallen comrades (most uniforms were dark blue at the time) as well as the empty space left by the towers after they fell.
I couldn't get more sentimental or I wouldn't have been able to write it through the tears. It still makes my stomach churn
Thank you for reading and commenting.
~Deb
Re: Tuesday's Towers - Never Forget
POV as a flight attendant'd be interesting too.
Re: Tuesday's Towers - Never Forget
Hi deb,
I used to be a flight attendant - I feel that would be the right title to personalise your poem and defined the viewpoint.
best
Phil
I used to be a flight attendant - I feel that would be the right title to personalise your poem and defined the viewpoint.
best
Phil
Re: Tuesday's Towers - Never Forget
Hi Deb,
As I read the first line "Tuesday for two" I thought of an old song "Tea for Two" and thought what a good title that first line would make. It was such a beautiful blue-sky day i decided to walk to my dentist appointment. Nice days can turn in an instant and the shock remains forever. That first line sounds lighthearted and then the shock of what happened on that day turns between one line and the next. Good write.
As I read the first line "Tuesday for two" I thought of an old song "Tea for Two" and thought what a good title that first line would make. It was such a beautiful blue-sky day i decided to walk to my dentist appointment. Nice days can turn in an instant and the shock remains forever. That first line sounds lighthearted and then the shock of what happened on that day turns between one line and the next. Good write.