Two hundred
ninety-
eight
souls
rise
as
two
hundred
ninety-
eight
bodies
fall
from
the
sky.
.
.
.
Malaysian Airliner shot down over the Ukraine. Another tragedy.
Join 16.3K other subscribers
Come visit my Facebook page. Snippets of the current novel-in-progress show up there for your amusement.
Thanks for coming by!
- 486,981 visitors so far. Welcome back again soon!
Categories
- Alpha-biography
- anecdotes
- book reviews
- Commentary
- Friendship
- fun
- Grace Awakening
- Grace Awakening Myth
- Grace Beguiling – Petrarch
- Harp
- Literature
- Monday Meme
- Murdering Mr. Edwards
- Mythology
- narrative
- OUTLANDERishness
- poem
- Poetry
- Pondering
- poodles
- projects
- Quotations
- Reading
- Recipes
- Rotary
- Rotary invocations
- Teaching
- Uncategorized
- video
- Writing
Shawn L. Bird 
God bless them and god bless you for penning this terrible tragedy so eloquently
Thanks.
Prayers.
Yes.
This poem says it all….. You capture so much sadness in this
Thanks
Too much loss, terrible.
and oh, so, senseless. Ignorant boys playing with machines too big for their brains.
You’re right there
I was shocked when I heard the news. This a comforting poem. =)
Thank you.
Goosebumps…. may their souls rest and their families recover from this horrible tragedy
Thanks.
Thank you for this deeply touching poem Shawn. Prayers
Yes.
Beautifully said.
Thanks
Makes me wonder of the queue to get to the other side is as slow as going through customs & immigration?
I presume not.
Horrible thing.
awe…..sweet 4u2c that. Dang, that was powerful and simple. Going to reblog it…..on my site 🙂 thanks.-L
My pleasure, Loretta. I’m glad you liked it.
Reblogged this on Spill71's Blog and commented:
sweet
a lovely ode. rest in peace, brothers and sisters
Thanks Christy.
Very powerful and uplifting, Shawn. I’m glad I read this. All the news is so disturbing. This helped.
Thank you for those kind words, Melody. It is disturbing.
It’s madness as much as tragedy. When will we learn…
Commercial jets flying over a war zone at a height that is supposed to be completely, safely out of range of anti-aircraft weaponry. One wonders who is providing such weaponry? Only the arms dealer benefit from these conflicts.
Truly spoken. Impossible to fathom.
Absolutely
They were so cruelly killed in the high skies. May their souls rest in peace.
One can only hope that it was an instantaneous departure.
Yours is a lovely, peaceful view of what is a horror beyond understanding. Thanks for writing this.
Thanks.
It’s a heartbreaking disaster. My boss lost her two teen nephews in that tragedy. Your poem is beautiful. I am sure the kids have become angels now.
Absolutely.
Wow. Thank you, Shawn.
My pleasure, Jason.