The Impossible Dream (rare attempt at free verse)

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John Yaws
Senior Member

since 1999-10-09

Posts 860
Texas

0 posted 2000-02-21 07:38 PM

What I’d like? Hmmm?
Interesting thought, that.
I’d like a Roc’s egg....
A guided tour by John Clayton, Lord Greystoke
To sit across the table and play one hand with
John Oakhurst, Gambler.
To walk the plains of Barsoom with John Carter.
To talk to Earp and Behan
On the streets of Tombstone...
To drive a dog team through the Klondike-
And climb Everest with Sir Edmund Hillary
To sail ‘tround the Horn with sir Francis Drake-
To buy a dram for Robbie Burns
While he enchants me wi’ ‘is wit.
To be a hero...ride with Custer..
Die beside Crockett at the Alamo!
Aye, lad! I’d like these and more-
To trap the Yellowstone with Jedediah Smith,
Explore the Mojave with Joe Meek.
Run a trapline with “Old Gabe” Bridger-
Rendezvous with Hugh Glass, and Broken-hand Fitzpatrick
Ride with Captain Jack Hayes of the Texas Rangers
Be in the stands when Freckles Brown rode Tornado
In the National Finals in OKC in 1967...
At the youthful age of forty-seven.
To dream the impossible dream.

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Mike
Member Elite

since 1999-06-19

Posts 2462

1 posted 2000-02-21 08:37 PM

My father would take me down to OKC for the Finals... missed '67. Have dreamt about a few of the others also...
nice effort.

Breathe~
Member

since 2000-02-05

Posts 315
Washington...

2 posted 2000-02-21 08:41 PM

~To dream the impossible dream...~

what do we have...if not dreams? I like this...great style...

I love the time
and in between
the calm inside me
in the space
where I can breathe...

Sarah McLachlan

Meadowmuse
Member Elite

since 1999-12-27

Posts 3263

3 posted 2000-02-21 10:08 PM

Gunslinger, free verse becomes you! You did just fine, far better than my own meager efforts, to be sure. Love your Robert Burns reference...can I tag along??

Saxoness

Senior Member

since 1999-07-18

Posts 1102
Texas

4 posted 2000-02-21 10:34 PM

Yehah Cowboy! Good work!

"Glory remains unaware of my neglected dwelling where alone
I sing my tearful song which has charms only for me."

-Charles Brugnot

Corinne
Member Ascendant

since 1999-10-28

Posts 5167
state of confusion

5 posted 2000-02-21 11:10 PM

hmmm, what could I add to this (and admit that I didn't know all of the aforementioned names) - k, 2 come immediately to mind:

1)  be a fly on the "wall" for the Lewis and Clark Expeditions, and

2) be able to have witnessed well, some of the Donner Party Exhibition.  It's a big deal in California history and quite a fascintatin' tale, even without the cannabilism.  Did you know, for example, that they were stuck in snow in what is now known as Donner Summer from Late October 1846 until the following April of 1847?

Anyway, thanks for the thought provoking prose, Gunslinger!  Que Bonito!

Corina

RobertB
Senior Member

since 1999-09-26

Posts 1104
Champaign, IL

6 posted 2000-02-21 11:12 PM

Welcome to the world of free verse!!!!!

tracie66
Member Elite

since 2000-01-18

Posts 4713
Australia

7 posted 2000-02-22 04:48 AM

Great job gunslinger I don't think I'd even try to attempt free verse...mmm maybe one day (I'll keep dreaming)

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