Brandon Turbeville's New Book Of Poetry, "Dance, Amputee," Now Available

Brandon Turbeville
BrandonTurbeville.com
February 20, 2019

On January 9, 2019, Brandon Turbeville's new book of poetry, "Dance, Amputee," was released.

After a decade of creative silence, "Dance, Amputee" is a collection of new poems by Brandon Turbeville spanning the period of 2017-18. Written after a trip to Syria in late 2017, the poems contained in this book deal with war, loss, grief, anger, love, and revenge.

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Poem - All The Murdered Daisies

All The Murdered Daisies

Martha, you are gentle

Holding daisies by the doorway

Behind you the little screen

Showing Damascus awash in bullets

I would take a picture here

Had you not blinked from the sounds

Drowning out the song of your birds

Who would land on your balcony in the early morning

To await your feed

Light near your hand and

Force themselves not to come closer

The sparrow you saved

Blind in one eye, lived his life in your room

Now, I, long past the airport

Turn to my own little screen

Showing your brothers dying

Your sisters’ blood spilling over

Martha, I told you to pray for your people

I will pray for mine

We were caught in a pendulum of opposites

Though you were

split by the swing

I am awaiting its return

When your people may pity me

I am sorry, Martha

I was sleeping late

There was no time for kindness

Performance of "The Sun Is Going Down In The City" in Berlin, Germany - February 17, 2018 by Hanin Elias

Brandon Turbeville
BrandonTurbeville.com
February 17, 2018

Performance of Brandon's poem in Berlin, Germany - February 17, 2018.

"The Sun Is Going Down On The City" by Brandon Turbeville, performed by Hanin Elias set to music by Sean Derrick Cooper Marquardt and cello by Ulrike Brand performed at Art Geyger in Berlin.

Poem - The Sun Is Going Down On The City

The Sun Is Going Down On The City

The sun is going down on the city

dusk is approaching

haze disappearing in the distance

Soon the cool will return to drive away the heat

until morning

The game is over and

the loss still stings

the news returns to the carnage the next city over

that must end soon

as all things must end

You will not be your neighbor

and sink into insanity

although the fires have spread to home now and

the reporter says

the military has been summoned

prepare for martial law

until the storm has passed

Soon the shots on the north of town will be silenced

And all will be back to normal

New Book By Chris Veritas - Wisdom Trilogy And Other Poems

Brandon Turbeville
BrandonTurbeville.com
April 28, 2016

Wisdom Trilogy And New Poems is a compendium of the works of Chris Veritas, comprised of three of Solomon's Wisdom Books turned into verse, Veritas' new poems and neologisms. Trilogy spans the ages, celebrating the Wisdom of God and the genius of Solomon, with the addition of 33 new imagistic poems.

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Visit Chris Veritas' websites at ChrisVeritas.com and ChrisVeritas.blogspot.com.