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344 posted on
04/30/2004 6:51:35 AM PDT by
SAMWolf
(War is God's way of teaching us geography)
To: bentfeather; snippy_about_it; Flurry; Darksheare; Darkchylde; Trikebuilder; radu; Colonel_Flagg; ...
A Brook in the City

The firm house lingers, though averse to square
With the new city street it has to wear A number in.
But what about the brook That held the house as in an elbow-crook?
I ask as one who knew the brook, its strength
And impulse, having dipped a finger length
And made it leap my knuckle, having tossed
A flower to try its currents where they crossed.
The meadow grass could be cemented down
From growing under pavements of a town;
The apple trees be sent to hearth-stone flame.
Is water wood to serve a brook the same?
How else dispose of an immortal force
No longer needed? Staunch it at its source
With cinder loads dumped down? The brook was
thrown Deep in a sewer dungeon under stone
In fetid darkness still to live and run -
And all for nothing it hd ever done
Except forget to go in fear perhaps.
No one would know except for ancient maps
That such a brook ran water. But I wonder
If from its being kept forever under
The thoughts may not have risen that so keep
This new-built city from both work and sleep.
Robert Frost
Michael miserable failureMoore
345 posted on
04/30/2004 6:52:07 AM PDT by
SAMWolf
(War is God's way of teaching us geography)
To: SAMWolf
WOO HOO, real upbeat tunes this morning Sam.
Thanks for the wonderful poem and graphic, coffee, and donuts, always welcome in The Lair.
347 posted on
04/30/2004 7:30:05 AM PDT by
Soaring Feather
(~The Dragon Flies' Lair~ Poetry and Prose~)
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