Bombing Sheep
POETRY FORMAT, 24 Jun 2019
Tom Greening – TRANSCEND Media Service
On a hot, dry, smoggy day in Los Angeles,
a military jet roars over my house,
leaving a beautiful white vapor trail.
Nothing to fear.
I am looking at a newspaper photo of Syria.
Well-tended fields, pine trees,
lush green hills, a country house.
I imagine a cool stream, fresh air,
light breeze, and sheep.
But a bomber has just
blown up an ammunition dump.
and black smoke billows into the blue sky.
What do the sheep do now?
What do I do?
____________________________________________
Tom Greening: I engage in five professional activities: faculty member at Saybrook University; private practice of psychotherapy; clinical professor of psychology, UCLA; international editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology; writing (poetry). www.tomgreening.com
Tags: Poetry
This article originally appeared on Transcend Media Service (TMS) on 24 Jun 2019.
Anticopyright: Editorials and articles originated on TMS may be freely reprinted, disseminated, translated and used as background material, provided an acknowledgement and link to the source, TMS: Bombing Sheep, is included. Thank you.
If you enjoyed this article, please donate to TMS to join the growing list of TMS Supporters.
This work is licensed under a CC BY-NC 4.0 License.
Well-done, Tom. Thank you. “Just enough.” Just the right touch–a wisp of calm and even beauty, and then the bigger world intrudes…and we question our little realities, and even ask moral questions.