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Member Rara Avis
since 2000-11-16
Posts 7450
Oregon

0 posted 2001-06-02 11:30 AM


a poem by Wayne Adams titled "Flower Child" that can be read at www.voy.com/1001, hope you'll pop in to see it.

MULTILINGUAL
Virginia Salter

Cool as a cucumber
calm as a sloth
wild as a weasel
free as a moth
analogies, similes
metaphors grow
words say so many things--
more than you know.

In the days of Grandma and Grandpa
it was “Twenty-three skidoo”
when wanting to say
something finer to you.

Then when Mama and Papa
were growing up well,
things were neato and wonderful,
it was easy to tell.

I’ve gone through the stages,
so many by now
I can barely recall them
they’ve been radical, wow!

Like “far out” and “groovy”
“cool” and “real nice”
Sometimes something that’s been said
causes one to think twice.

Like “rad” and “slammin’”
even “*****in” and “bad”
are words that are good-things
yet sounding so sad.

I wonder how far
the pendulum will swing
till the words come back
to the real that they mean.

Things are so bogus,
so far from the truth
do you think we will ever
say things like forsooth?

Have you pondered the trips
that our language has taken
do you think it will ever
be cured like bacon?

© June 2, 2001
© Copyright 2001 Virginia Salter - All Rights Reserved
Watersign6
Senior Member
since 2001-05-25
Posts 823
Hurricane,WV
1 posted 2001-06-02 11:32 AM


your on the money with this poem,groovy as gravy baby  
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