Written for: Poets United Midweek Motif~Vigilance
“Create a new poem that addresses the monitoring and vigilance you see as necessary or obtrusive.”

Perhaps if guns
were not easy
to buy, and assault
rifles were banned,
we could stop weeping
as we watch each
new vigil with its
prayers, flowers,
speeches, and tears–
again and again and again.
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About purplepeninportland
I am a freelance poet, born and bred in Brooklyn, New York. I live with my husband, John, and two charming rescue dogs–Marion Miller and Murphy. We spent eight lovely years in Portland, OR, but are now back in New York.
My goal is to create and share poetry with others
who write, or simply enjoy reading poetry. I hope to touch a nerve
in you, and feel your sparks as well.
Perhaps. So vsry sad.
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It is.
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“. . . and again . . .” yes, you nailed it.
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If only..i can feel the sense of remaining vigilant to such fear
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Thanks, Jae.
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It seems so obvious….I really don’t understand it. Why?
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It’s not obvious to our president, or the NRA who run things to a great extent.
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Thank you for writing about such a serious issue which repeats so often. I live in the city closest to El Paso. I’ve always been aware and against war weapons. But having a mass shooting so close to home made me even more alert to its epidemic proportion.
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It truly is terrifying.
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I so agree. We seem to be a species of incredible inertia.
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I am seeing all these kids around the world getting seriously involved in awareness of climate change. Positive thing.
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It took a mass shooting incident in the state of Tasmania in Australia for the federal government here to make a such a decision several years ago, Shooting incidents ceased immediately and incidents here are now quite few.
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Which goes a long way toward proving the NRA wrong.
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