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Marilyn Nelson — The Truceless Wars

Poetry Unbound

CHAPTER

The Great Quest of Humanity

The first eight lines mostly describe the kind of destruction you see in nature. And then there's the statement about observing death, which begins to bring us into a turn. Life struggles to evolve higher in us through questioning, toward hope. In a certain sense, she's saying is that our wars are without possibility of a future. They're simply for the purpose of annihilation.

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