November 14, 2005
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“An Iowan Worldview”
America’s crop stood straight, back to back,
Rose tall and fresh and green in many ways.
The landlord looks o’er all; oh which to take?
Harvest comes and all fall to reaping blades.
Oh crisp husk, whisper to me your sorrow!
You would, yes? If you had a breath to spend?
Only silence greets me on the morrow,
Cob and chaff everywhere, from your form rent.
The site, a field of quiet decay
Littered with the innocent dead, fallen.
Their seeds will not be planted on this day,
Tomorrow, ever, always never, then
The landlord plows and through winter he’ll wait,
Soon to plant, harvest; a circular fate.
Woot woot. Who rocks at impromptu sonnets? Me. That only took ten minutes. I wrote it because in poetry class someone wrote a poem about a soldier and one student said he hated it because it was too political. SO I thought I’d be a REAL smart ass and have my next poem be the same message, just in cognito. Hopefully he’ll end up liking it a lot, and then I can say something like, “You don’t think it was too political, do you?” Yeah. “America’s crop” is its citizens. You can guess the rest I’m sure. I’m not trying to start a political argument, I just HATE it when people say they hate things.
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COOL PICTURE
VERY COOL
Makes me feel close to the earth.
Makes me want to think.
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“The Voice”
“With words to make you think.”
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Pretty soon I’ll be all wrinkled and walking with a cane! No I know what you mean and yeah sometimes it does feel that way.
I TAGGED YOU…go to my site and read my entry! You’ll know what to do!
like it, very nice to be “a smart ass” to the kid in you class.
later
There You
Haha, that was awesome! Thanks for the link!
Some days, I think that my sister could bet trapped in a plastic bag….the elevator is probably the easiest place you could save her from! I hope the year is going well for you!
sweet
It’s pretty cool to be able to do that so easy!
Political, fun stuff. never really to much cared for it as you well know. anywho, as for xmas i really dont have anything right off hand that i can think of, could always use more magic cards but i wouldnt worry bout it. we are suppose to be home mid march sometime so if possible i may come up to uni and hang out for a bit. do some catching up. and what is with the woot woot thing? your pic reminded me of detassling. good times. i miss iowa. well that is all for now. talk to you later.
What would you like for xmas?
Yes well, ill do my best on that but i was thinking something tangable, not that i am not real, or am i? nonetheless, i guess i have nothing else at the moment. too tired to think, 0102 here. too early to be doing much of anything. talk to you later.