Where have all the heroes gone?
-the ones with the tiny voices
-the ones that live in our heads
You know what I mean…
-the ones that say people are more
precious than guns
-that loving your neighbour is cool
-that young men knifing each other
should be stopped …..NOW.
-that compassion in the norm
that-watching-a-school-shooting- followed-by-a-royal wedding
shouldn’t be done while drinking the same cup of tea
(sans breaking stride-as it were)
Where have all the heroes gone?
-those fail-safe voices of wisdom buried in our heads?
©Vivian Zems
Real Toads-if you meet the hero on the road….
Poetry Pantry #404
MLMM– Letters to Humanity
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May 20, 2018 at 3:07 pm
I agree Vivian, where has all the heroes gone. America is supposed to be strong. So much violence, and troubled times today, we will pray for peace, love, and harmony. Happy writing.
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May 20, 2018 at 3:13 pm
Our heroes (as in the text) are the little voices buried in our heads. Thank you for dropping by! 🙂
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May 28, 2018 at 5:53 pm
You’re welcome, read you soon..
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May 20, 2018 at 3:35 pm
I wonder if it’s ourselves who should step up and be heroes…. we should try at least.
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May 20, 2018 at 3:36 pm
Exactly! That’s where it must start.
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May 20, 2018 at 3:53 pm
Amen, Vivian – I wonder if the real heroes have all been overshadowed by oversized fantasies. And we should never watch a shooting and a wedding on the same cup of tea.
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May 20, 2018 at 5:52 pm
Amen indeed.
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May 20, 2018 at 4:02 pm
Oh Vivian I cannot help but cry bucket reading your words…..I keep asking these questions….what has happened? How can we call them back? Perhaps calling them back inside of us as we may have to be the heroes and hero voices for a time. And you used the perfect song to accompany your poem.
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May 20, 2018 at 4:05 pm
Thanks Donna. Something has to change….or it will worsen.
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May 20, 2018 at 4:13 pm
Oh that hits home, the royal wedding and the school shooting during the same cup of tea. So sad what is going on everywhere.
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May 20, 2018 at 5:52 pm
A degeneration of man-kind😯
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May 20, 2018 at 4:42 pm
A question hard to answer….
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May 20, 2018 at 5:51 pm
Indeed…but we must try.
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May 20, 2018 at 5:10 pm
Powerful and inspiring summons!
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May 20, 2018 at 5:51 pm
Thank you. It’s about time we all spoke up- as one.
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May 20, 2018 at 5:40 pm
This line is FANTASTIC – watching-a-school-shooting- followed-by-a-royal wedding
shouldn’t be done while drinking the same cup of tea
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May 20, 2018 at 5:50 pm
Thanks Colleen!
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May 20, 2018 at 6:16 pm
Sometimes heroes seem to be in short supply, but sooner or later they always appear.
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May 20, 2018 at 6:34 pm
As long as the ones in our heads speak up first . Thanks for dropping by!
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May 20, 2018 at 6:21 pm
Such powerful words Vivian.
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May 20, 2018 at 6:28 pm
Thanks Linda!
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May 20, 2018 at 7:04 pm
So true 😦 I don’t know where they are. Sometimes I think we’re too busy arguing with each other to be the heroes.
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May 20, 2018 at 7:06 pm
That’s probably where we’re going wrong….so sad
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May 20, 2018 at 7:47 pm
Such a heartfelt write, Viv! 💜 Perhaps we are the heroes of our time and should come out into the light 😊
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May 20, 2018 at 7:47 pm
I very much think so, Sanaa. Thanks 😊
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May 20, 2018 at 8:34 pm
You’re right, heroes are scarce nowdays, those who stand up for justice, truth and bravery.
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May 20, 2018 at 8:35 pm
Lets hope there’s a change soon.
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May 20, 2018 at 8:37 pm
I guess we have to be the heroes we want to hear inside ourselves. That’s the only way to begin. Great words.
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May 20, 2018 at 8:38 pm
Thank you 😊
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May 20, 2018 at 9:46 pm
Wow, this is excellent. So true…we watch such a great tragedy and then the royal wedding, hardly batting an eye. We really need to find some heroes (in government…sigh) to turn the tide. Me thinks, sadly, it will be a while in coming. “Thoughts and prayers” is their only answer.
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May 20, 2018 at 9:56 pm
We have to be the heroes we need. If not us, who?
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May 20, 2018 at 11:48 pm
Exactly! …💪
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May 20, 2018 at 10:09 pm
Well done! Well written.
We all know the answer. But, it seems we have to keep asking ourselves the question; until we say “Duh!” and jump into the flow of non violence’s current of understanding.
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May 20, 2018 at 11:47 pm
Thanks ZQ….So true!
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May 20, 2018 at 10:38 pm
When times are darkest we must find them inside ourselves.
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May 20, 2018 at 11:46 pm
Absolutely!
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May 20, 2018 at 11:55 pm
I guess heroes are scarce. Perhaps that little voice will learn to shout and heroes will be created anew. I hope.
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May 21, 2018 at 2:56 pm
We hope so!
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May 21, 2018 at 12:43 am
excellent point… in this 24 hour news cycle there is no attention span heroes and tragedies last 15 minutes
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May 21, 2018 at 2:58 pm
Indeed, they do…
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May 21, 2018 at 12:48 am
Yup! This! I don’t even know how to wend my way through the news right now–so well written!
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May 21, 2018 at 2:56 pm
Thank you!
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May 21, 2018 at 1:29 am
You expressed it well….so sad .
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May 21, 2018 at 2:55 pm
It is….
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May 21, 2018 at 1:52 am
I think they are still around, pumping the fists in the air, screaming “No!” to injustice, doing all they can to remind others and themselves that the times can’t afford small voices or failed heroes… they write poetry, too.
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May 21, 2018 at 2:54 pm
Indeed, Magaly….true talk!
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May 21, 2018 at 2:05 am
Sadly everything has been taken over by greed and the encouragement of need of the new, the different, with the feeling that a good life can only achieved by more. I speak to you later consumer. As for guns…thank heavens I live in Australia.
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May 21, 2018 at 2:53 pm
I might have to move there!
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May 21, 2018 at 2:18 am
Excellent Vivian, good question, where have they gone, perhaps shouted down by the loud and ignorant?
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May 21, 2018 at 2:52 pm
It’s a sad state of affairs, Michael…
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May 21, 2018 at 2:21 am
A critical and complex question eloquently posed. One might even say, it is THE question, in these troubled times. A powerfully rendered piece.
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May 21, 2018 at 2:52 pm
Thanks, Wendy!
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May 21, 2018 at 4:02 am
This is brilliant and I feel the same way but you expressed calmly; I am more angry. No, I am furious that I live in a country where people right to own a gun take precedence over the lives of school children. Thank you for this. Do you mind if I reblog it?
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May 21, 2018 at 2:48 pm
Thank you. We need more angry voices. It makes no sense how the right to carry arms trumps kids’ lives! Please re-blog as you wish 🙂
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May 22, 2018 at 2:26 am
Thank you
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May 22, 2018 at 7:13 am
😊
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May 21, 2018 at 2:09 pm
I agree…we have lost our moral compass as a society… well said.
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May 21, 2018 at 2:57 pm
Well put!
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May 21, 2018 at 6:54 pm
Truly, there’s no pause between grief and pomp.
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May 22, 2018 at 9:23 pm
Love the poem, hate the video.
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May 23, 2018 at 12:56 pm
Lol! Love your honesty 🙂
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May 23, 2018 at 3:54 pm
I like your definition of heroism! Particularly as it faces us with choice.
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May 24, 2018 at 1:25 pm
Absolutely!
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