A shot echoes
In the valley.
A horse rears
As its rider
Clutches his chest.
Blood spreads
Across the man’s shirt
As he falls
To the ground
His foot
Trapped in the stirrup.
Frightened
The horse runs
Dragging the man
Beside him
Before he comes
To a stop.
Young girls
Crying
Rush
To the man’s side
And try to free him.
A woman
Holding a smoking musket
Watches
From the protection
Of nearby woods.
A moment of remorse
Is quickly forgotten
As she denies
Conscious acceptance
Of her assault
On her unsuspecting
Victim.
She leaves
Her last shred
Of humanity
Behind
As she hurries
Toward
The safety
Of her home.
(Written for dVersepoets, Open Link Night Week 70, November 13, 2012.)
vb's reverbs 
Half a league half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred:
‘Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns’ he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
My immediate thoughts-Tennyson
I can only be flattered by the association–a favorite from my childhood. Thanks!
I started reading thinking I have read this before LOL This is such a wonderful novel everyone should be jumping to get it. I can’t wait for the next….God bless and keep you!
Many, many thanks, Len–your support is so well appreciated! Really liked “Shhh…Have you heard it?” Lovely.
thank you so much that means a lot!
dang…nice intensity….and says as much in what it leaves unsaid than it does the great imagery…will have to look up your novel now because that was really good…
Many thanks for the kind words and for taking an interest in Reverberatiion, The Novel.
Great imagery, nice share.
Many thanks! Really liked your “Kept Promises”.
Murder is an abdication of mutual humanity indeed. Atmospheric narrative poetry.
Agreed! And many thanks for the comment.
So, am I wrong? You took a paragraph of your novel, split up the lines and called it poem?
Sabioooooo–Ever the cynic! I wrote a poem BASED on the incident which initiates the action in my novel–I was in the mood and it was a fun prompt..
Cynics, as Greek philosophers, are highly over-maligned.
Besides, by my questioning this coming from your book, it stirred readers to buy it!!
Yeah
Good thinking on the PR front–and as for cynics, you’re talking to a pro!
I just ordered your book on Kindle and look forward to reading it. I LIKE your poem based on the dominate incident in your book.
Many thanks, Lynne–for the interest in Reverberation, and for the capitalized “Like” for my poem!