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Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

0 posted 2001-07-23 02:06 PM

Wind whirled
Scattered scales
Of standing dinosaurs
Now journey
Nowhere.
And I wonder;

Why do we destroy
The older parts
Leaving the
Stumps behind
To stumble over
As they rot slowly
Into holes
Never filled

Later seasons
Cover depression
With blankets
Of snow
But fail to
Fill the voids

VAS
Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-16

Posts 7450
Oregon

1 posted 2001-07-23 02:15 PM

this certainly sends my mind to wandering
to wanting to give answers, and yet, uncertain of their worth and succinctness, so to keep
from spending the day arguing with myself, even though guaranteed a win if it's settled at all, I choose to step aside and watch the other's ponderings

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

2 posted 2001-07-23 02:20 PM

VAS... think of this one as an analogy for the things in our life that we or others destroy..but always seems we are left with the stump and roots..to trip over in our day to day..or to stumble over at night... time rots these, but leaves a hole...one that seasons change and cover...but we still find we can fall into.

You can also take it as simple the loss of old growth forest... or any older forest...

what ever suits your mind...

Professor Gloom
Member Elite

since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

3 posted 2001-07-23 02:22 PM

It’s the beavers fault for it all,
Leaving the phallic remains for winter,
Taken and left before the snow fall,
To perhaps become a December dinner,

Dam the flows of August storms,
With lightening across the summer sky,
Till a serene pond takes calm forms,
Ice will cover all when snows fly.

The voids are still laying there,
Last years dinner stub still rotting,
Beneath the mound sleep without care,
All prepared done is all plotting.

But the storms will break down branches,
Survival is a matter of chances.

Gloom

Cpat Hair

Member Patricius

since 2001-06-05

Posts 11793

4 posted 2001-07-23 02:28 PM

Very nice poetic reply and retort..( chuckling)

Yes many ways to look at things and most analogies do have weakness... you have pointed out mine...(laughing)

Nate Dogg
Senior Member

since 1999-11-15

Posts 1658
Georgia, Fulton

5 posted 2001-07-23 03:42 PM

A unique perspective....very nice poem!!

Nathan

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

6 posted 2001-07-23 03:58 PM

Why do we get ourselves into these situation...and yes it is we who get ourselves in and we who must get ourselves out...and it takes lots of work to did out stumps...James

Interloper

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-11-06

Posts 8369
Deep in the heart

7 posted 2001-07-23 05:56 PM

I think it's Smokey the Bear's fault

Nicely done, Ron. I enjoyed it very much my friend.

catalinamoon

Member Rara Avis

since 2000-06-03

Posts 9543
The Shores of Alone

8 posted 2001-07-23 07:35 PM

I agree with all the previous possibilities, but you know, I find this to be more personal, in that there are always remnants of things from our past to trip us up in the future.
But I'm just a depressed kinda girl

Sandra

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

Posts 63354
Listening to every heart

9 posted 2001-07-23 08:04 PM

Well, I get more than one viewpoint on the ups and downs of a historical perspective, and will admit to having found a few of those pitfalls, some of which remind me of the LaBrea tar pits...

but I have also see the heights, and I fight mighty hard against the tar to reach them...

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