<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567446" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On a Line from Valéry (The Gulf War)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The whole green sky is dying.The last tree flares<br>With a great burst of supernatural rose<br>Under a canopy of poisonous airs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could we imagine our return to prayers<br>To end in time before time's final throes,<br>The green sky dying as the last tree flares?</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But we were young in judgement, old in years<br>Who could make peace; but it was war we chose,<br>To spread its canopy of poisoning airs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not all our children's pleas and women's fears<br>Could steer us from this hell.And now God knows<br>His whole green sky is dying as it flares.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Our crops of wheat have turned to fields of tares.<br>This dreadful century staggers to its close<br>And the sky dies for us, its poisoned heirs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">All rain was dust.Its granules were our tears.<br>Throats burst as universal winter rose<br>To kill the whole green sky, the last tree bare<br>Beneath its canopy of poisoned air.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Carolyn+Kizer">Carolyn Kizer</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=567446" data-title="On a Line from Valéry (The Gulf War) de Carolyn Kizer" data-description="The whole green sky is dying.The last tree flares With a great burst of supernatural rose Under a canopy of poisonous airs. Could we imagine our return to prayers To end in time before time's final throes, The green sky dying as the last tree fla..."></div> </div> </div>

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