After an altar call
Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney
Cynthia Hurd
Rev. Daniel Lee Simmons, Sr.
DePayne Middleton-Doctor
Ethel Lee Lance
Myra Thompson
Sharonda Coleman-Singleton
Susie Jackson
Tywanza Sanders
Do you hear the poetry?
Do you hear the music
and love in these names?
These women and men are sisters and brothers,
mothers and fathers, aunts and uncles,
grandmothers and grandfathers.
These blessed women and men are ours.
All lives matter.
Black lives matter.
These lives matter.
These blessed people
are poems
taken away from us.
Rev. Clementa C. Pinckney
Cynthia Hurd
Rev. Daniel Lee Simmons, Sr.
DePayne Middleton-Doctor
Ethel Lee Lance
Myra Thompson
Sharonda Coleman-Singleton
Susie Jackson
Tywanza Sanders
Do you hear the music
and love in these names?
Do you hear the poetry?
These blessed people
are poems
taken away from us.
Andrew Shattuck McBride, Writer's Blog 
I read this at poetrynight on June 22, 2015.
Touched me, Andy, and, yes, I do hear the poetry. Thank you for writing this.
Thank you, Susan — you’re very kind.