Poem Of The Month: November 2015

For November's Poem of the Month, I have chosen the poem 'The World Service at 1' by Kate Ennals .

It is taken from her collection At The Edge.

THE WORLD SERVICE AT 1

In February 2014

I hear high pitched screams

Deep tones of grief

Wailing sobs in Damascus

I am in bed, feverish

Shots explode

I turn over, bang my pillow

Move to Africa

Gays outlawed in Uganda

For fear of contagion

School boys murdered in Nigeria

Protests swell in Caracas

Putin is concerned at the coup in Ukraine

Obama the same

I splutter, eyes stream

I listen to Stephen Rea read

Joyce’s Grace

His protagonist believes

In ‘redemption without magic’

I wonder, how can the world be redeemed?

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