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Thread #105603   Message #4119795
Posted By: Steve Shaw
13-Sep-21 - 06:36 AM
Thread Name: BS: Poems that speak to you.
Subject: RE: BS: Poems that speak to you.
This one by Dannie Abse:

They held up a stone.
I said, ‘Stone.’
Smiling they said, ‘Stone.’

They showed me a tree.
I said, ‘Tree.’
Smiling they said, ‘Tree.’

They shed a man’s blood.
I said, ‘Blood.’
Smiling they said, ‘Paint.’

They shed a man’s blood.
I said, ‘Blood.’
Smiling they said, ‘Paint.’