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The Feeling of the people who have lost their beloved in the war. I wrote this poem specially for My Palestinian Brothers and Sisters.

1999

No explanation, merely fact.
A fact of the Human soul and heart is that they can produce and witness ineffable feelings, thoughts and oaths, while separated by an inch or so of flesh and bone and blood.  These last forever.

Correspondent Poem to .DOVER BEACH`, Matthew Arnold
     As Mr. Arnold:
1st section: 14-line French Sonnet, irregular rhyme-scheme, 3/4/4/3.

2d section: Sestet, Homeric epic tri-couplet, 2/2/2.

3d section: English Sonnet, with 5-line Coda v. couplet, last line an echo of the poem's first line

Memories flooded into me when I read Mr Arnold's poem.   In Vietnam I had stood on a beach like that --  like in the middle of a crescent-moon at midnight.  I simply wrote out what I felt .   A line-by-line explanation is given under
SOUTHERN  BEACH  (with 2 spaces in the title)