(photo by Michael Bartlett)
“Where Have all the Flowers Gone?”
Eighty blossoms
crushed in a Ukraine field.
Early budding heads now
suckle in a sea of mud.
Eighty children, burnished, bled
in a meadow. Their little leaves now shed
burnt away by the madness
of man and war…gone…
all gone away.
(of the 298 aboard Malaysia Airlines, 80 were children)
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