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| Sylvia Manning on left with Creekside Poets in Seguin, Texas, a town between Austin and San Antonio, where she winters. |
Sylvia says that this poem came back rejected. One or two in the group told her to put it on this blog, even though it's not brand new. In her mind it met the sense of a poem we'd been given as prompt.
Couplets for 2 black men killed
by police in Texas, February, 2016:
Antronie Scott and David Joseph
For these two killed last week
in nearby
cities, do we seek
justice?
But how
is that done
when each
of us has one
life
and only
one? How then
does any
justice serve? And when
will
those who should be here
to save
such lives be given clear
demand to
stop the killing
of young
black men, spilling
especially
their
blood and lives needlessly
onto our
city streets, heedlessly?
(Forgive
these weak and rhyming lines,
but how
indeed the sacrifice of lives
dear to
us?)
Sylvia Manning
Seguin TX, 2016
I heard that a website had been make under the title "Sequin Creekside Poets," but a google search brought me here, which is a good place to be. Thanks for the good and important poem.
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