Chaos looms
Inside
Outside
Choices
Few
Not choices at all
Consequences ensue
Inside
Outside
Tainting
Erasing
Dividing Groups
Chaos looms
Inside
Outside
Pulsating
Vibrating
Shifting
Doomed
Angela Bowden is a frequent contributor to the Nova Scotia Advocate. She was one of the talented writers selected for the Alistair MacLeod Mentorship Program, offered by the Writers Federation of Nova Scotia. Unspoken Truth, unmuted and unfiltered, a collection of her poetry, was published earlier this year.
Illustration: The drowning dog, by Francisco Goya, 1820 – 1823
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intense. truth.
A familiar tiredness visits me as a I read this. The world we are living in. Looming chaos. Yes. I feel it in my bones and no real choices.
Powerful poem!
Powerful poem!