Trying to make sense of......a poem, care to comment?

Question

How often do you...? (trying to make sense of peace)

hear

a dove cry

“leave me in peace!”

see

olive branch

carried in flight

savour

the meaning

shown by a symbol

hold

two fingers

in silent tribute

smell

home cooking

prepared for a hero?

....not often enough

(with thanks to TD's dove of piece comment)

Answer 1

I see and hear in doves that cry

In peace we war.

We leave

We try.

We see the olive branch with joy

In sweet,a tear beyond the sight

And carried off in flight.

Beyond the savour of our souls.

In meaning,time and past

Were shown by a symbol at last

In hold by fingers,trembel fast

In silent tribute task.

A smell ,a sound in lost we found.

Home cooking brings us home

A meal prepared for pillow down

Prepared for a hero.

Answer 2

This is a very moving piece, Jellz.  Thank you.

An enormous amount of emotion conveyed in less than 50 words.

Answer 3

Wow. At first glance that reads at random. Let me put my thick analytical glasses on.

Do any of those stanza's have a connection? Barely. But those are good questions, so that's what I will take them as.

1. I have only seen a dove once. It was flying in a distant blue sky, while my mother drove me to school. From sky, to behind thick trees it flew with ease. I didn't hear it's joy of freedom than, but I can imagine that it was crying way back when.

2. Never.

3. I've written documentaries, that I want to put on YT about my understanding of symbology. Why I haven't I yet? Another story.

4. I hold two fingers to my mouth, in silent tribute to the cigarette smoke while it is fueling my already accompanied peace.

5. Never.

Answer 4

huh?

I don't get it

Answer 5

You have subtly conveyed the irony, as TD did in his dove of "piece." Your poem says much in a very few words.  We live in an ironic world, but I wonder if it was really ever different.