I Saw The News Today Poem by Scott J. Shepard

They took cover
The mud and stone
A barracks filled with clay

Pulled from the sludges
The cap and cartridge
Buried brother, daughter and friend

Take me somewhere where the news
this new world sparrow song

Where the townspeople century that
darkened church door

and the mamas and the papas
bear gardens in their arms

make me a warm meal at noontime
and let me mourn the children's play

the courtyard, the porch door,
the windy prairie skies sway

a zeal, a reform
the changing of times

Tell me something sweet
said on the news tonight