Nam, Emily Dickinson Snippet Challenge Options

[Larry]

Nam

We passed the fields where rice once grew
but it’s all dead, without a chance
to feed or flourish. We all knew
that blood and gore would not enhance

a precious crop. The grass divides
each paddy from encroaching trees
that border them; death also hides
to be somebody else’s geas.

With generals, the row of stars
will keep them safe. Wild nights should bring
them peaceful dreams where nothing mars
those distant strains of triumph’s ring

and sweetest in their dreams would be
to war until eternity.



9 snippets used in order of appearance: we passed the fields, without a chance, the grass divides, to be somebody,
the row of stars, wild nights should, distant strains of triumph, and sweetest in, until eternity


Sorry Emily!

[Merlin]

I can't see why Em would need an apology. Hers were mostly short verses, short lines.

Reading the snippets, I'd say it was well dun!