I think it's hard not to be moved by the events that happened in Boston but I often think "why does it take something like this, for us to realise life is short?", because shouldn't we live every day like it could potentially be our last. Nothing is guaranteed and we don't know what might happen tomorrow.

With all the poems about this event this is one of my favourite because it's more than just a poem to remember and to pray, it's a reminder of life and how unpredictable it is. The messages in here were powerfully portrayed and you really cut through me and I felt myself nodding throughout it.

Really awesome writing skills here MaryAnne as always, x

This is very calming. I don't know why this calmed my heart about the situation, but it does. The way our club is handling this situation with such grace, confusion, and care rather than a red-seeing vengence, is just so kind, and I can't express how much I prefer it to anger - though there's a right to anger. These kinds of poems are just empathetic, and they reach my heart.

The wording on this is fantastic. I can't even go through the whole piece because my comments are nothing to this poem - it all speaks for itself. I've cried at nearly every poem I've read today, this is not an exception. What really stole my voice was "Hearts whimpered, eyes thundered, wounds with no explanation." That was so sensory. It just gave me such a feeling of helplessness that my fellow American family members must have been feeling. It gave me this overpowering need to go do something, to offer some kind of comfort or refuge in this darkness.

Beautiful.

So true.

Great poem POTP, you have taken a different stance to most, yet ask some great questions.

I agree with both Tara and Linda

great write as always.

Great write!

You portrayed this situation so well, who knows what their motives are for this, we will probably never know. I just read up on the recent happenings, it seems to have got worse over night. It's so sad that so many innocent lives were taken because of this. I wish violence didn't exist, things like these makes the world less safe and that's not what we need. You wrote the emotions & such in true poetic form, and once again you prove you can write about anything. :D

This was a wonderful tribute to what happened in Boston. I think you really captured the emotional side of things.