Jul 7, 2016 Original Poetry, Senryu, The Daily Post
Blue on Black
©July 7th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
A shot – and we know.
Blue on black crime, cops go free
Mourn this dying land.
Where can sorrow go?
Form a bridge from here to there.
Get people across.
Where can anger flow?
The stony path zigzags steep –
Cut a grove through it!
Where does darkness show?
In leaden hearts carved from hate
KKK-Police.
Where can justice grow
In barren land that’s so hard?
Time to plant some trees.
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Tags: #Alton Sterling, #BlackLivesMatter, #DailyPrompt, #Darkness, #KKK, #OriginalPoetry, #Philando Castile, #PoliceShootings, #PoliceViolence, #Postaday, #TheDailyPost
Mar 17, 2016 Senryu, The Daily Post
In response to The Daily Post’s Daily Prompt: Shelf
Shelved – Four Senryu
©March 17th, 2016
By Vijaya Sundaram
Dark, swirling eddies:
Sorrow, rage, hate, all of these
I set on a shelf.
Open the windows,
Let the cold, waiting heart of
Outer Space have them.
When dark thoughts are fed
To the Hungry Thing that lurks:
See how it explodes!
And all will be cleansed
All will turn to sun and air
Taste them, live anew!
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Tags: #Darkness, #Emotions, #Freedom, #Original Poetry, #Shelved, #Space