Nice and hopeful, Lynn ....and people don't change, do they ?

 

In an ideal world; Lynn, wouldn't it be wonderful if more places zere like this,

 

enjoyed both your tributes; but really liked the way you used rhyme in your second; well done, Zy x

Hi all and thanks for the lovely comments!

We may be in the 21st Century now, but we haven't really changed at all, have we?

We're still at war - perhaps more at war now than we've ever been before (in my lifetime, anyway).

 

I wrote my original poem just weeks after the Dunblane massacre. A massacre in a British school was (almost) unheard of up until then. I dedicated my poem to the victims and their famlies.

 

I rewrote it on a whim a few days ago - but only to drag my muse away from her Christmas holiday.

I realised this was a tribute of something somewhere, Lynn, it was a dreadful happening, but what really catches the readers attention is the use of the word love in it's repetition as a healing alternative to returned violence, well done with that, it worked well...Zy x

 

 

oo almost missed this one! so pleased I didn't   really like your revision Lynn...great rhyming 

me too. (nearly missed it, that is)

 

I remember the shock and outrage well, Lynn. Both are excellent tributes, but if I had to choose, I'd go for the revision.

 

Gordon