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Sunshine

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0 posted 2011-07-03 11:35 PM

A Lifting of the Ban
YEA, Fourth!

Fifty years had gone by before
The ban was finally lifted
Yet the farmers/ranchers of the field
Were hardly yet to gift it

The reverence their own hearts knew
That glory must be seen;
They worried that their fields of grass
And clover that might yet glean

A harvest here and to their pen
Wrote worrisome words of plight
That might a nugget’s light of glory
Bequeath their fields to light.

Yet from the city confines
Where their worries seem far-flung;
It appears that Glory sits upright
And only our skies seek song

The wise ones are out in force
To watch where sparks might fall
But cheering reaches all the roofs
Touched earlier by rains

Fifty years without the worry o’fire
Yet, nor a celebration’s yell
And now I wonder, weren’t we missing
What’s kept us from heading to hell?

This is what my childhood remembers
And now the children of today
Might hear the talk of their parents
And catch the heart of what they say

That our country was founded on freedom
By an early morning’s tremendous light
And evermore we might remember
On the fourth of a new July night

What our Vets and current at arms
Men have and continue fighting for
The valor of our country’s freedom

And all that we hold forth

I took my pups out for a watch
To walk among the gleaming skies
And met my neighbors, one by one
Who looked up to the sights

And no one worried of the day
As a day’s rain had fallen hard
We sat along the curbs and grass
And clapped and yelled out loud

And when the fireworks were through
We headed to our homes
At daybreak the small, worn mess
Will be but a memory’s roam.

© krj
7-3-2011

"The business of the poet...is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things." Thomas Hardy

JerryPat2
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1 posted 2011-07-04 09:19 AM

What a wonderful message and story, Sunshine. To tempt fate is not a sensible thing to do, and I understand that. Rain, the nurture of life has fallen in abundance so that the fireworks ban could be lifted. I know it was sweet to see.

~ It's amazing how many women a woman can be. ~

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