Resilience ~

The little airplanes of the heart
with their brave little propellers
What can they do 

against the winds of darkness,
Even as butterflies are beaten back 

by hurricanes
yet do not die

They lie in wait wherever

they can hide and hang

their fine wings folded

and when the killer-wind dies

they flutter forth again

into the new-blown light

live as leaves

~ Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Auschwitz ~

Spring came.

The ice melted,

Flowers refused to show,

The birds skirted round.

from: The Auschwitz Poetry

The Right to Vote ~

The told us . .  that they were devising laws to deprive certain American citizens of their right to vote.