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Open Poetry #21

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Dom Mart
Member

since 1999-08-17

Posts 164
Florida

0 posted 2002-07-24 05:37 AM

Neanderthal, Cro-Magnon
And races of their ilk
Wore no scarves or mufflers
Of flannel,wool or silk;

Wore no rubber galoshes,
No parkas packed with down
And had no mittens for their hands
When they went to shop in town.

The earth was very cold then,
Beneath eleven feet of snow,
And they didn't have a Florida
Or somewhere like it they could go.

It isn't hard to understand
The fate of races such as these.
The choice was either disappear
Or hang around and freeze.

[This message has been edited by Dom Mart (07-25-2002 06:18 AM).]

Larry C

Member Patricius

since 2001-09-10

Posts 10286
United States

1 posted 2002-07-24 03:35 PM

Dom,
You make an excellent point!

(hey the last verse had should be hard)

If tears could build a stairway and memories a lane, I'd walk right up to heaven and bring you home again.

NewEnglandlazurlu
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-01-04

Posts 7470
A Mountain Paradise

2 posted 2002-07-24 08:50 PM

I'd be out of there too! I can't imagine what it must have been like for them. Living in New England where the winters can be brutal is bad even with down and scarves and mittens!!

I liked this very much and it got me to thinking how hard it must have been for those first humans. Hugs, Marti

"Even if life is full of thorns, I still embrace it for I know that in between those thorns, there is a rose worth all the pain."

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