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Open Poetry #25

Million Year Rock

ecrivan
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since 2001-12-10

Posts 3923
my own state

0 posted 2003-03-29 12:39 PM

The million year rock
outcropped
jagged on the horizon
the million year block
of quickly solidified air-pocketed basalt
how it enraptured Victorian perusal
how it fed the curious who ambled up its base
only to creep between its extruded pillars
to shed the imposed repressions of the period
in awe of its monolithic majesty
to sample its rarified air
diluted by a potion of 'forget your world' gas

The new explorer would then gaze downward
to a familiar crop of clothed ants
not the voracious kind but equipped with limbs
did they have a real purpose down below?
only the million year rock would truly know

everything has a purpose
this rock commanded one.

[This message has been edited by ecrivan (03-29-2003 11:42 AM).]

Nan

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since 1999-05-20

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Cape Cod Massachusetts USA

1 posted 2003-03-29 07:35 AM

Only the rock knows for sure... I'm never disappointed when I open your posts, ecrivan... Thanks again..

Sunshine

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since 1999-06-25

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2 posted 2003-03-29 07:38 AM

We may never know all the reasons
but certainly we should never stop
asking the questions...

thank you Ecrivan!

ecrivan
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since 2001-12-10

Posts 3923
my own state

3 posted 2003-03-29 10:53 AM

I owe my thanks to Cronenberg's film Picnic at Hanging Rock

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