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LeeJ
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since 2003-06-19
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0 posted 2004-05-05 11:55 AM


Design wobbles longing for imagination
Theme parks surface stereotyped by madmen
Postmodern landscapes gazelle in distress
Trends ignore lost city narratives

Free and wild longs to play
Where dieing lions by the Sinai Peninsula pray
Struggling in roles that history seeks
Meeting transformations in jungle’s mystique

Hot and Steamy nature’s wilderness
Habitual images consume towering volcanics
Murky fat traditions colonize wide-range economics
To something which was already working
Space and structure drinking Zimbabwe feelings

Walking a tightrope of façade
Beadworks loose their Tanzanian God
History has cast strangers in a row
Visual contact attacked by white rhinos

When doth failure meet the knight?
Who has seen ground’s long walk to light
Confidence would have history’s face
Be as it was before change penetrates

Elephants give up their ivory tusks
Poachers roll their dice after dark
Refugees crash the soil’s terrain
Nigerian ethnics host murder’s campaign

When will we leave things as they were?
So much can be said for what translates humane
Environment wears peeling blue shoes
Collecting signatures from native Zulus






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ParisGrl
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since 2000-06-01
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1 posted 2004-05-05 11:57 AM


Lee,

This is a powerful write.  Enjoyed.

~Laura~

Seymour Tabin
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Tamarac Fla
2 posted 2004-05-05 12:35 PM


LeeJ
It is the way of the world. Enjoyed

JL
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since 2004-04-01
Posts 6128
Texas, USA
3 posted 2004-05-06 03:12 PM


What a wonderful write!  It was almost like reading something from National Geographic.  Excellent write Lee J!!  Enjoyed the story.  Oh… Like the cheetah too!

JL

She said: ”You look cute in the dark.”


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