Tuesday, 27 November 2007

Fire Tree

















I was eight
Thich Quang Duc
when you became
dancing flames

I remember


1 comment:

DCW said...

Eleven weeks after the passing into flames, Martin Luther King stood on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial and pronounced, "I have a dream".

A commentator said of that discourse: "Like all great oratory, its brilliance was in its simplicity."

The same comment could apply to your poem.