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lucky
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since 2000-01-17
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0 posted 2000-10-12 02:56 PM


the poetic journalist

photographer traveled to a remote
part of Alaska to photograph a huge
glacier while he was in the village
nearby an ancient old native
indian approached him
and asked if he
could pay him
in some way to
pray to his white god
to ask if white god would
take such and such glacier away.

When he asked to understand such request
the old man explained  when he was growing
up there there was no glacier but it was a river
filled with wonderful fish instead as a young
man he was able to feed his large ever
extended family very easily and they
always had an abundance of
meat year round
to give.

But then

Instead as the
years went by a glacier god
had grown angry with him he knew
not why and sent a glacier down poor
natives river slowly chasing the fish
away and it grew harder and
harder to feed his
family


the
glacier
kept coming
and coming no matter
what prayers he prayed to the
gods... he had finally

sacrificed two of
his best slaves - a strong
young man and his wife, hoping
to please the glacier god so that it
would take the glacier away but it
didn’t the glacier just kept
coming.

Now in hungry desperation
he was asking the white man to pray
to his great white god in case white god
could make the glacier go away and give
him back their river and the fish lest they
starve and die returning a few years
later and inquiring of the man
and his family no one

seemed to know
of them

asking
again

has anyone
seen them lately?

they all began to move away
from prophetic poet
still wondering




[This message has been edited by lucky (edited 10-13-2000).]

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Martie
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1 posted 2000-10-12 03:05 PM


Lucky--this is a wonderful story, although a bit confusing at the end...because you are certainly not a pathetic poet, so who...and where ...is the question I am left with.
lucky
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since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601
Idaho
2 posted 2000-10-12 03:17 PM


Martie,

Nice muse huh..? Who can understand the ways of the indians. I'll get back to ya later on this. I have to see a few more remarks.

Thanks Sis


Paula Finn
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since 2000-06-17
Posts 5546
missouri
3 posted 2000-10-12 03:34 PM


Hello Lucky...I enjoyed the story...I dont understand the reference to the pathetic poet but up til then it was great.
lucky
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since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601
Idaho
4 posted 2000-10-12 03:43 PM


OK... I'll change it.



Writing isn't just something I do... it's something I am...
To write of feelings that touch all hearts in some manner is my greatest delight... [Marg

lucky
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since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601
Idaho
5 posted 2000-10-12 03:52 PM


Paula,

forgot to say thank you...



Writing isn't just something I do... it's something I am...
To write of feelings that touch all hearts
in some manner is my greatest delight...
[Ma

lucky
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since 2000-01-17
Posts 1601
Idaho
6 posted 2000-10-13 03:25 PM


Alright Martie,

The story is a true story. Rosemary had read it some where and had told me about it later. I saw a write coming... but you know..? I should have maybe taken longer; you see... it had no beginning and obviously no end but the rest as I said, is true. I could make it a challenge I suppose it's worth a try.


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