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The Creative Process: The Arts of War (Spring 2017)

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<strong>Spring</strong> <strong>2017</strong><br />

Echoes<br />

Burnt Musings: <strong>War</strong><br />

<strong>The</strong> <strong>Arts</strong> <strong>of</strong> <strong>War</strong><br />

ROGER FENTON, VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF DEATH, FROM THE CRIMEAN<br />

WAR<br />

T<br />

he sun rises with the promise <strong>of</strong> hope and warmth<br />

spreading across the horizon<br />

giving life to everything under her feet<br />

as she s<strong>of</strong>tly kisses everything her hands can touch<br />

and taints it all with orange.<br />

Teaching us to keep waking up<br />

to the echoes <strong>of</strong> the chirping <strong>of</strong> birds<br />

and the rustling <strong>of</strong> the breeze against the trees she nurtured.<br />

Mayhem is yet to strike,<br />

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