Monday, July 27, 2020

Bloody Sunday



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
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16 comments:

  1. Sanaa RizviJuly 27, 2020 at 12:49 PM

    Such a brilliant acrostic, Glenn! You rocked the prompt!❤️

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  2. Linda Lee LybergJuly 27, 2020 at 12:58 PM

    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.

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  3. Jane DoughertyJuly 27, 2020 at 1:01 PM

    Same as Linda.

    This is a powerful piece of work!

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  4. Jade LiJuly 27, 2020 at 1:35 PM

    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.

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  5. LucyJuly 27, 2020 at 1:52 PM

    LOVE this.

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  6. indybevJuly 27, 2020 at 2:48 PM

    His story was so inspiring. Sadly there seems no young hero to follow in his footsteps. Great write, Glenn.

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  7. TruedessaJuly 27, 2020 at 4:33 PM

    Done in your own special way. The vote does make a difference. I hope come November we will see a vote of change.

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  8. lynn__July 27, 2020 at 6:43 PM

    Great tribute to John Lewis, Glenn! May we vote for NON-violence indeed...too much violence excused by left-leaning mayors.

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  9. Kim M. RussellJuly 28, 2020 at 1:10 AM

    I don’t understand American politics, modern or historical, just the basics, but I felt the political punch in your acrostic, Glenn.

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  10. sarahJuly 28, 2020 at 1:18 AM

    Very clever, Glenn.

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  11. Gillena CoxJuly 28, 2020 at 1:47 AM

    WOW a super acrostic

    Much🍇love

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  12. Ken GierkeJuly 28, 2020 at 6:23 AM

    I agree with others here, Glenn. This is brilliant.

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  13. Dwight L. RothJuly 28, 2020 at 7:34 AM

    Wonderfully done and a nice tribute to John Lewis. Making it through the brambles of Civil Right was and is a painful journey!

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  14. ChristineJuly 28, 2020 at 7:13 PM

    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!

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  15. BillJuly 29, 2020 at 4:26 AM

    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.

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  16. Vivian ZemsJuly 29, 2020 at 3:14 PM



    A fitting tribute.. and such a powerful acrostic poem.

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