To The Alexandrov Choir Poem by Liza Sud

Your last two lines are stunnning - you make a huge poetic leap in linking the salt-water sea into which the plane fell with the salt-tears shed by people like you who mourn this disaster. Only poetry and religious faith make such huge leaps of meaning. But you end your poem abruptly with sheer FACT of grief, and the only religious note is the confused question concerning God's role from a Christian perspective. A rabbi in America published a book that became very popular: WHY DO BAD THINGS HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE? It's Job's question too, but the Book of Job doesn't answer it, nor did the rabbi. I can only feel the berevity of your poem and its suspended question about God's role mean your heart needs time to grieve. Amen to that. Your last two lines are stunning - You make a huge poetic leap in linking the salt-water in which the plane fell with the salt tears shed by people like you who mourn this loss of life. Only poetry and religious faith make such huge leaps of meaning. But you abruptly end your poem with the sheer FACT of grief and seek no further int why

Genuine feelings on the tragic incident plainly but solidly presented. We too feel the loss. Thanks for sharing.