Note from Helen: I am pleased to introduce Ruth Gillis. Ruth and I have been acquainted for over ten years. We wrote for the same poetry magazines in the '90's: "The Inspirational Poet" and "Poet's Review."
Ruth Gillis' Bio: I'm a little ole Alabama "granny", retired from the work force, spending a lot of my time doing what I like to do most, which is writing poetry
A drunk man in an
Oldsmobile
PLEASE READ
they said had run the
light
that caused the six-car pileup
on
109 that night.
When broken bodies lay
about
and blood was everywhere,
the sirens
screamed out elegies,
for death was in the
air.
A mother, trapped inside her
car,
was heard above the noise;
her
plaintive plea near split the air:
"Oh, God,
please spare my boys!"....
Go to Ruth's site to read the full poem:
The Wreck On Highway 109
Copyright © 1999 Ruth Gillis
All
Rights Reserved
"The Wreck On Highway 109"
received a
First Place Award in the April
1999 issue of Poet's Review.
This poem has been found on many web sites on the Internet with incorrect title, no author credit given, and also with the poem attributed to someone else. I have NOT given my permission for anyone to post the poem in this manner, nor to forward it in emails this way. If you would like to use the poem, please email me at: ruthgill@worldnet.att.net, and send me your web site URL. If I give you permission to use it, you must not change the poem in any way, and you MUST add my name to the poem as author, my copyright info, and provide a link back to my site.
Thank you for your respect. © 1999 Ruth Gillis Visit Ruth's House of Poetry All Rights Reserved "The Wreck On Highway 109" received a First Place Award 
in the April 1999 issue of "Poet's Review."