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Open Poetry #44

Columbus Without A Cause

Osprey
Member

since 2009-04-12

Posts 249

0 posted 2009-04-21 05:17 PM

Columbus Without A Cause

Tell me of the heart-racing truth.
Was your mind more absent than present?
Did myriads of unknown senses
invade your existence
as you breathed such
never-before, encompassed breath?
On what did you, truly, dwell?

I'm sure, am I not?
One, small step
and all that national jazz,
was a pre-conceived,
history-required notion.

Where was fear?
Do such men as you know fear?
Or, did you ride it like a bronco
till its bucking ferocity subsided?

Tell me, Neil,
I was a child of '69.

Your courage is chiselled
on the stones of age,
of that, there is no doubt.
Granite's unyielding breast,
bared to the storm.

But, I fear,
in all your glory,
you were but
a Columbus without a cause.

Why did you not say:
"This is a footstep too far"

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

1 posted 2009-04-21 05:39 PM

One small step...

I enjoyed the brilliance of this write... as opulent as Eve's apple.

critical mass
Member

since 2009-03-25

Posts 275
Michigan

2 posted 2009-04-21 10:45 PM

not everyone will understand this one.

Where were you in 69......

I remember.

Cheers.

unboundpoetess
Member

since 2008-05-24

Posts 477

3 posted 2009-04-21 11:25 PM

Enjoyed this, Osprey.

Where was I in 69?

I wasn't

I feel so left out...

Nice work.
Heather

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