Flashes of Fire – Poem by Laura Turzo
Echoes of a forgotten struggle rise from deep within.
Laura Turzo’s haunting poem evokes the weight of ancestral memory and an unnamed battle that still burns within. Read more like this or submit yours to Written Tales.
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Deep in my unconscious linger memories of an uprising followed by a fall. They come over me without warning bring me to my knees howling I feel the horror, the torture I cry out for my people. Who was I in this fight? Why does it haunt me? My people. Walls go up In fire and in bloodshed they fall In the rubble the message burned on the soul is always the same All people are my people.
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Laura Turzo is a writer of poetry, fiction, and narrative non-fiction. She currently lives in the Berkshires. Her work is included in an anthology of poetry and prose from Mackenzie Publishing, the Written Tales chapbook Nature's Embrace: A Symphony of Voices, and online at Beatnik Cowboy and Backwards Trajectory.
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