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GOOD-BYE
Contributed by
Lovingcritters
on
Monday, 6th June 2005 @ 09:02:58 PM in AEST
Topic:
AmericanTragedy
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This poem is a "take off"
from Ralph Waldo
Emerson's "Good-by"
written by me for 2005
GOOD-BY
Emerson writes:
Good-by, proud world, I'm going home
Thou'rt not my friend, and I'm not thine.
Long through thy weary crowds I roam.
A river-ark on the ocean brine.
Long I've been tossed like the driven foam.
But now, proud world I'm going home.
I write in 2005
Good-bye blood guilty world I'm going home
I'll always hate you, I say "Shalom!"
Bad associations you possess in swarms.
Broken oar upon the sea of mankind
Truths today pelting like hailstorms
Good-bye blood guilty world I'm going home
Emerson writes
Good-by to Flattery's fawning face,
To Grandeur, with his wise grimace,
To upstart Wealth's averted eye,
To supple Office low and high,
To crowded halls, to court, to street,
To frozen hearts, and hasting feet,
To those who go, and those who come
Good-bye, proud world, I'm going home.
I write in 2005
Good-bye to hypocrites two-faced
Lover's of themselves, others effaced
Showy display of one's wealth
Feet run hastily to badness
High offices corrupted hidden stealth
Halls of apathy, no natural affection
Those that promise, no commitment often
Goodbye blood guilty world, I'm going home.
Emerson writes:
I'm going to my own hearth-stone
Bosomed in yon green hills alone.
A secret nook in pleasant land
Whose grove the frolic fairies planned
Where arches green the livelong day
Echo the Blackbird's roundelay
And vulgar feet have never trod
A spot that is sacred to thought and God.
I write in 2005
I'm going to Hades, mankind's grave,
Await a resurrection into a world brave,
Beauteous paradise upon this land,
Planned from the beginning with His Hand.
Death will no longer reign, dead return,
No wickedness, liars gone, bloodless sojourn
Sacred world filled with loving thoughts concern.
Emerson writes:
Oh, when I am safe in my Sylvan home.
I tread on the pride of Greece and Rome.
And when I'm stretched beneath the Pines
Where the evening star so holy shines,
I laugh at the lore, and the pride of man.
At the Sophist schools and the learned clan
For what are they all in their high conceit
When man in the bush with God will meet.
I write 2005
N'er again woe to me, in my beautiful home
I'll not remember proud wars, soldiers roam
Young men and women
taken before their prime buried,
Mother's tears flood their graves not pitied
God laughs at the stupidity of lowly man
Higher schools of learning useless, no bloodless plan
Expensive sophisticated schools and students for naught
Peace and security only by God's Hand brought!
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1803-1883
I claim no credit for
Emerson's writes
Only for my own
Created by
Lovingcritters
consue
June 6, 2005
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can,
only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity."
~General
Dwight D. Eisenhower~
"Prayerful Tears!"
Copyright ©
Lovingcritters
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Re: GOOD-BYE
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by shelby on
Monday, 6th June 2005 @ 09:39:40 PM AEST
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this is great conni and I think the war sucks 2 blah end it now I say pooper heads
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Re: GOOD-BYE
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by emystar on
Monday, 6th June 2005 @ 10:23:56 PM AEST
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Awesome write, mom.
U have a gift for this type writing.
huggs, luv,
yobrat,
emy |
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Re: GOOD-BYE
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by Elizabeth_Dandy on
Tuesday, 7th June 2005 @ 06:24:10 AM AEST
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What ingenuity!.
It's extraordinary.-- Waldo Emerson and Lovingcritters singing a Duett.
And so beautifully and harmoniously.!
Kudos to those that can achieve harmony.
Hail to imaginativeness!
Warm love
Elizabeth |
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Re: GOOD-BYE
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by NoSaint on
Tuesday, 7th June 2005 @ 06:55:39 AM AEST
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very well done
Shari |
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Re: GOOD-BYE
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by Former_Member on
Tuesday, 7th June 2005 @ 04:52:13 PM AEST
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I hope that as I continue to write that I become as clever and original as you.
This is wonderful ConSue! |
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Re: GOOD-BYE
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by sweetangeluk on
Wednesday, 15th June 2005 @ 06:10:39 PM AEST
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Unique and magnificent write as only you can write Sue. You have a gify so rare so special and I thank you for sharing it with us.
Love Angelxxx |
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Re: GOOD-BYE
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by CarrieLynn on
Thursday, 29th September 2005 @ 06:21:29 PM AEST
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thats neat i really like it... very good write
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