A Poem for Paris by the Editor

The Beacon

Lovers, artists, writers, poets

are drawn to Paris. 

Just as the Trojan hero

for whom the city is named

captivated Queen Helen

Paris captivates the imagination

of the creative and the beautiful

and always will. 

How many of us

have dreamt of visiting Paris?

That dream is not a nightmare

despite the recent rending of her peace.

The Nazis could not destroy her.

Neither will the jihadists.

Steven Wittenberg Gordon