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Professor Gloom
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of Depression

0 posted 2003-08-18 09:31 AM


Where there once was a spreading chestnut tree
Was an anvil on it’s side in the sand,
A ring of stone where fire once would be
This was a place where steel was formed by hand.
A layer of Americana crust
Where the start of a new country was made
Now it is covered with a red brown rust
Shoved aside by the coming dozer blade,
Soon this will be new asphalt or concrete
History falls beneath the spreading rush
To parking lot, a building or a street,
Tomorrow leaves just yesterday’s dust
To float across the sunbeams of the day
Swirling with memories and drift away.

Gloom


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Susan Caldwell
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since 2002-12-27
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1 posted 2003-08-18 10:36 AM


Gloomy,

Very well penned.  You know, I live in an area where just a few years ago it was all wooded.  Now I call it "Yuppyville".  Nothing much left of the trees.  Sigh...

Anyway..as always..I love this writing.

Susan

SuperGlueRyan
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since 2003-06-16
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2 posted 2003-08-18 01:41 PM


Very nice. I used to live in the dilapated old factory part of a town in the rust-belt region of the midwest. I'm all too well associated with the "red brown rust". I'm dually impressed.

[This message has been edited by SuperGlueRyan (08-18-2003 01:42 PM).]

QjQ
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since 2003-04-18
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3 posted 2003-09-06 09:39 PM


nicely portrayed,,,

    

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4 posted 2003-09-07 10:21 AM


I fear you're right, Brother Gloom....for the good or bad of it. In this poem you say it as well with the atmosphere as with the words that create it. Well done.

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