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Sadelite
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0 posted 2004-04-13 10:05 PM



I am but a simple saw
Blinded by my cuts
I chew the wood with gnarled teeth
Small ruts behind, I leave.

My father always razzed me
That a blind man could see
If he took his saw and saw.

With that, I opened decorative wooden eye
And in deep concentration thought.
Then dropped my handle jaw

I moved 50/50 forth and back
With all the energy
a simple saw could muster.

Still blinded, I jigged on jags,
Hit grains small snags,
Then tried to use more muscle.
(It was of no use; I moved no further through the wood.)


                                  A kindly secret slid across my blade
                              And whispered in open ear,
                         “To see with saw, one must seize
                        particular way each saw is made.
                    Vision is not always 50/50, Dear.
             Nor are your teeth chiseled straight up and down,
          But angled just for one-way bite!  
        Exert yourself only in movement outward,
Rest from inward fight.”

                                                          
Taking the advise as a grain of truth,  
I exerted as an extrovert,
Pushed outward with all my might.  
                        

           I felt  the sawdust warming me.
           Once  blinded, but now I took my saw and saw.
          “Understand,”  the secret said,  “Life’s not always 50/50.”
                                                                            
                                                                  ~Sadie~

The last acrostic is one in appreciation of my dad's wit and of his sharing little ditties such as "I see," said the blind man so he took his saw and saw.      


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1 posted 2004-04-14 12:36 PM


this is great....


" Vision is not always 50/50, Dear.
             Nor are your teeth chiseled straight up and down,
          But angled just for one-way bite!  
        Exert yourself only in movement outward,
Rest from inward fight.”"

Dragon Mistress
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2 posted 2004-04-14 01:05 AM


Oh this was wonderful!  No words better to explain.  Definately left an unexplainable emotion within me!

~*~I'm a dreamer, with broken dreams, and only words to fall back on~*~

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3 posted 2004-04-14 02:07 AM


a wonderful piece...leaves me with a good feeling and a smile
iliana
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4 posted 2004-04-14 11:45 AM


What could I possibly say about this one? !  Speechless, since I knew and loved the man who taught us such wisdom!
Grover
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5 posted 2004-04-14 11:49 AM


Great metaphor!
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