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Sunshine

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0 posted 2012-09-19 10:51 PM

Fahrenheit 451 revisited

I am alarmed.
But I am seasoned.
I have seen the past
I am seeing non-reason

I see toward a time
That I fear for my own
And these are the
REASONS why I won’t let loose
Of those wonderful things that I own:

I will not let loose of my books, be they

     Cooking
     Helpful hint
     Farming
     Husbandry
     Dictionaries from any day and age
     Antique
     Romance
     Literary
     Fiction
     Factual
     Geographical
     Artistic
     Diaries
     Memoires
     Historical
     Educational
     Mathematical
     Poetical

Because…there may be a day
When a book
that took on a story
Came true.

Fahrenheit 451…this is for you.

And for the rest of the story?

Those other “things” I own
are safely set aside for whatever may come
But, I will sleep safe with insight, and

I will save their story for tomorrow.

© 9-19-12 KRJ
For BT...and her
Dad

jwesley
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1 posted 2012-09-19 10:57 PM

Very nice, my friend ... and agree completely with you. We just watched Fahrenheit 451 on Netflix night before last.

Still a powerful, and scary, movie.

j.

Sunshine

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2 posted 2012-09-19 11:05 PM

Thank you, James. I could have said more...but I think I will let it be for now...
and say more,
Later

JerryPat2
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3 posted 2012-09-20 06:17 AM

You spoke truth and it isn't far into the future I am afraid, Karilea.

~*~ If they give you ruled paper write sideways. ~*~

Lori Grosser Rhoden
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4 posted 2012-09-20 08:53 AM

Science fiction becomes less and less fiction everyday so there is reason to worry. But I believe freedom of speech is spreading and there will be no stopping it.

Lori

suthern

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5 posted 2012-09-20 03:43 PM

Saying goodbye to a book is parting with an old friend... but I have to let some go occasionally - or open my own library or rent a bigger apartment. *S* So... I make the separation easier on myself by sending them off to places I know they'll find other hands and touch other minds and hearts. *S* But I agree with the principle of this and love the way you've written it.

Balladeer

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6 posted 2012-09-20 09:56 PM

You didn't need to say more, K. You said it all...and very eloquently

JL
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7 posted 2012-09-21 10:05 AM

The "Bright Phoenix",
Bradbury had a crystal ball, and little did
we understand during those days;
this concept was so foreign to my brain-buds, like castor-oil to taste-buds...
How could the American people ever let this
type of thing happen.
Thus the saying: "Live and learn".

Enjoyed the reminder, Sunshine lady.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

JamesMichael
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8 posted 2012-09-25 10:31 PM

Fine writing...James

Sunshine

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9 posted 2012-09-25 10:38 PM

I want to thank each and every one of you for reading, and responding.

It's a double edged sword, wanting to be a visionary writer, and afraid of what that vision might bring.

It's like giving evil a road map, some times.

Maybe that is why, while I am no longer an ostrich with its head in the sand, I fear to speculate on what I may see in the future, and attempt to thwart it with kindness....

I am a fool.

But I am my own fool....

and fools suffer, as some might say...
eloquently.

A bi/tri/quadruple/partisan

for all...

"The business of the poet...is to show the sorriness underlying the grandest things and the grandeur underlying the sorriest things." Thomas Hardy

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