My Name Was Martha by Ken D. Williams
Poet Ken D. Williams performs a reading of his poem ‘My Name Was Martha’.
A poem for Martha, the last known living passenger pigeon who died in Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.
‘My Name Was Martha’ © 2014 Ken D. Williams
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Ken D. Williams
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A poignant and timely poem. I have heard of Martha, but I’m sure many people have not – I don’t know why it is not held up as a recent example of senseless extinction.
I really enjoyed this. Its very emotional and well told by the author himself. Hat’s off to you sir (see what I did there)
Thank you Sam.
An example, of a subject, could be any subject, that seeads in my mind. Germanates, the springs in to life. A story-poem emerges, from the ritch sile of my mind. A work, brakes the service, reches out, to be read.
Ken D Williams – The Dyslexic Wordsmith.