painting by Joan Baez.
Bloody Sunday
“The vote is precious, almost sacred. It is the most
powerful non-violent tool we have in democracy.”
---Congressman John Robert Lewis.
Bridge--the Edmund Pettus.
Robert--John’s home name.
Attacked they were, in 1965.
Many marchers injured.
Black lives clubbed.
Lean in--make good trouble.
Everyman’s hero.
Services--tribute for six days,
for the fallen freedom fighter,
making it from a cotton plantation
to Congress.
Glenn Buttkus
Quadrille: exactly 44 words.
Posted over at d'Verse Poets Pub
16 comments:
Such a brilliant acrostic, Glenn! You rocked the prompt!❤️
Glenn- this is wonderful! By the way, your link is not working properly. Would you mind trying again, and I'll delete the first one? I was able to find it via clicking on your site name.
Same as Linda.
This is a powerful piece of work!
An acrostic with political punch. I agree on voting, but there are so many barriers between us and a fair vote these days, from obstructions at the polling stations to hacking electronic voting machines, and now absentee voting by the majority due to covid.
LOVE this.
His story was so inspiring. Sadly there seems no young hero to follow in his footsteps. Great write, Glenn.
Done in your own special way. The vote does make a difference. I hope come November we will see a vote of change.
Great tribute to John Lewis, Glenn! May we vote for NON-violence indeed...too much violence excused by left-leaning mayors.
I don’t understand American politics, modern or historical, just the basics, but I felt the political punch in your acrostic, Glenn.
Very clever, Glenn.
WOW a super acrostic
Much🍇love
I agree with others here, Glenn. This is brilliant.
Wonderfully done and a nice tribute to John Lewis. Making it through the brambles of Civil Right was and is a painful journey!
That is a great poem for this word, a use of the word that I honestly never would have thought of if I hadn't read your poem. Nice take!
Wow. Some poems are wonderful. Others are much more. This one is very much more. And the portrait is an image that will stay with me.
A fitting tribute.. and such a powerful acrostic poem.
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