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Bronzeage
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0 posted 2007-08-07 10:43 PM


I am a zealot
Don't try to talk me out of it.
This place is too cold for you
I'm going in
and you are coming out
under my arm
or over my shoulder
past nearsighted cowboys
and blind plowboys
who can't see you
to where it is green and warm
where lovers lie
with the windows open
in January
and the neighbors wonder
who he has
with him tonight.


I am a zealot.
I know I am right.
I am here to reap
the sweet grain
growing in a rocky field.
Carry the corn in my hand
and scatter the chaff
back to the rocks
that neither care or see
the the green stalk
that twists past them,
seeking the sun.
I know what is to keep
and what to toss.
A rock may warm in the sun
but roll it over
and it is still cold.
The rocks will not know
you are gone
until they smell
the bread baking
in my oven.

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serenity blaze
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1 posted 2007-08-07 10:55 PM


awesome.
BBGrrl
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2 posted 2007-08-08 12:21 PM


John Wayne couldn't have said it better, Bronze.
bel1e
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3 posted 2007-08-08 12:51 PM


Bronze~

I love this...

  

secondhanddreampoet
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4 posted 2007-08-08 06:20 PM


fine and interesting 'write'!

I am particularly fond of:

"I am a zealot.
I know I am right.
I am here to reap
the sweet grain
growing in a rocky field.
Carry the corn in my hand
and scatter the chaff
back to the rocks
that neither care or see
the the green stalk
that twists past them,
seeking the sun"

Applause!!

suthern
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5 posted 2007-08-22 11:35 AM


I really like this... especially the ending! *S*
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