Songs for Newtown

A Poem by Joshua Lean

To be whispered to the sleeping backs of loud toddlers and the giant eyes of the children that we were.

I write this panegyric on the centennial of my existence.

This is a hornet,child.

Listen.

Let its notes needle your nape with noisy nothings.

Now,the world swings by you,

Because you have gone cold and speechless,

What is it that you would have said?.

Tell me,I will write these things in my corners,

Until forests grow in the parts of me that lay caked with the cries of censorious centaurs.

And we will fell every tree and carve with our hearts,

A world of wood where our dreams lie unashamed,

Unafraid to burn,to be forgotten,

There is a ferry for your freckled faces,

Tanks that transport your tandem smiles,

To eyes that will color them green and blue,

You have now,rainbow rights.Let the air dance to you hue.

What is it that you would have sang?.

Speak up,you have here a multitude of angel ears,

That sit still to let your voices rise like the trombone.

The choirs in these throats will stand.

Free and fearless like flags,

Billowing in the wind of a new millennia.

And we will dwell in its lethargy and make a blanket of the memories that make us fly inbetween breaths.

A nest for the times we took Life by the hand and made it listen to the hum in our chests,

It was the sound of together,

The sound of forever.

Never goodbye,never goodnight,

Just a malnourished morning that will wake to your light.

I write this panegyric on the centennial of our existence

.Happy birthday - Noah Pozner,11/20/06.Ana Marquez-Greene,04/04/06.Grace McDonnell,12/04/05.Emilie Parker 05/12/06.Jesse Lewis,06/30/06.Jack Pinto,05/06/06.Caroline Previdi,09/07/06.Jessica Rekos 05/10/06.Avielle Richman 10/17/06.Benjamin Wheeler,09/12/06.Allison N. Wyatt,07/03/06.Charlotte Bacon,02/22/06.Daniel Barden,09/25/05.Olivia Engel 07/18/06.Josephine Gay,12/11/05.Dylan Hockley,03/08/06.Madeline F. Hsu,07/10/06.Catherine V. Hubbard,06/08/06.James Mattioli,03/22/06.Chase Kowalski,10/31/05.

© 2013 Joshua Lean

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Priscilla Sayers

I love the note: "What do you think?" As you know from me it will come unsolicited, no 2 cents from Priscilla... I give you the whole bank. LOL...
Well this piece is soft, endearing, lyrical and full of love....
I feel the hope within the words, I feel how you cherish these young souls. That expression made solid by the list you included at the end, which my dear friend, makes me cherish you even more....
You are an inspiration that stands apart from all the rest.
I may get some backlash from the praise I give to you but it is well deserved as anyone with eyes can see...
And as all those who truly know my in the WC I always speak truths no matter what, I never have been one to hold back and would hope that no one would expect that of me now....:) lol, there goes my 2 cents....