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The Turbulent Still Life
Contributed by
invierno
on
Friday, 18th July 2014 @ 08:11:28 AM in AEST
Topic:
war
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There's that pond again,
so deep and capable it brims
with a life of ideas-
ringed in that tall wispy grass
that would look so nice in just
the right vase- a tall one though!
Lopsided imbalance would throw
the whole pleasing image askew,
and starting anew I would
have to decide- new grass, new vase,
maybe even a whole new pond?
With a slight quiver and shimmer
the surface, placid when things are well,
now trills and with a hair of disturbance
the quell is no more;
gone now
as my fingers reach for pen or pencil
keyboard or quill- anything to tame this
furrow, to attain a pond still.
Tall order indeed I command upon me-
not good at following, even myself...
I'll save the five bucks not to hear it said,
no army uniform for me...surely if I can't make happy
a still life in my mind- a pond, vase and grass
there is no room in me for the yell and demand
to go forth and kill-
take that life, that rock, that hill.
Seventy pounds of gear to lug
in the desert this year, the jungle next;
who knows where our defense of democracy leads?
These ideals of freedom, this American Way
we bravely cram and bomb in efforts to sway
those not used to such a degree
of our wondrous barbarous definition of free.
Copyright ©
invierno
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2014-07-18 08:11:28]
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Re: The Turbulent Still Life
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by ladyfawn on
Friday, 18th July 2014 @ 07:53:35 PM AEST
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beautifully penned, sigh.........
hugs n' love nessa |
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