It's Still Life

Day 14 NovPAD Challenge

ai children standing in puddle, debris and rubble everywhere.

The Architecture of a Moment

Notes: Rooted in the oldest English tradition, Anglo-Saxon accentual verse follows the rhythm of breath and heartbeat rather than syllable or rhyme, where meaning is carried by cadence, image, and pause.

A lament for the children of Gaza, a sorrow spoken in the oldest rhythms I know.

The Architecture of Who (Accentual Verse)

Who is this child
dust on the soul,
name lost
in the ruin.

Who watches
through salt and ash,
belly hollow,
fruit forgotten.

The countless fade
into winter’s hush,
into heat,
into hunger.

Who will bear
the weight of seeing?
Who will speak
the sorrow known?

Who will hold
the quiet vow
that this must
be named?

And who
will remember
a name.

Written for Writers’ Digest Poem-a-Day Challenge. Poems/prose, some AI/images ©Misky 2006-2025.

Misky

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3 responses to “Day 14 NovPAD Challenge”

  1. Spira avatar
    Spira

    ” To search every morning in the garbage for something that will help you survive one more day.

    To wake up every morning knowing that in this desert-of-law there are no rights for you.

    To have years of experience that things won’t get better, only worse.

    To feel the humiliation that you can change almost nothing, while your hope grasps from anything which eventually leads to a new dead end.

    To hear countless promises that just pass by you & yours.

    The example of those who resist, therefore are bombed to oblivion.

    The weight of your dead that erases any innocence, for they are so many.

    These are the seven levels of despair – one for each day of the week”

    From J. Berger’s prologue to Arundhati Roy’s, The Algebra of Infinite Injustice.

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    1. Misky avatar
      Misky

      I will not dilute those perfect words with more than my single one: Aye! (…and I will never allow my eyes to glance away from it).

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  2. Violet Lentz avatar
    Violet Lentz

    I think countries like Palestine and Sudan and Ukraine should start publishing list of all the names and ages and causes of death- maybe when the world sees the volume- they would take notice…. Once again this was heartbreaking.

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