They're to accompany news articles, for a SS assignment. Are these good for a 14 year old? I still need to revise a bit.
For an article about people rummaging through the debris from the earthquake in China:
Days of bliss
Each passed by
Stare at stars
Or sun in sky
Now all the relics
Of all once dear
A misty gaze
Whisper to ear
Depend on what’s
Now out of sight
All remains
Of a dusk filled night
Are flimsy remnants
Memory flits
The dusty film
Stagnant, sits
Sifting through
Hopeless remains
Struggle to recall
A thought ingrains
A flickering
Amongst the abyss
Only to vanish
A soul amiss
For an article about troops dying in Iraq:
Debates singe
The media rooms
Stay or go?
Controversy blooms
Bickering suits
Pixels on a screen
Glancing over what
Begs to be seen
Broken hearts shatter
At each knock of the door
Waiting for the uniform
News that seems too sure
One year, then two
One hundred now
Poem continued -->
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