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Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

0 posted 2004-04-14 05:52 AM

There was much time,
As he road the slow moving train,
For his clouded mind
To sober from the once insane
And at the end of the line
He exited to his mountainous terrain
Walking penniless home
Just poor sad farmer Cain
To still live life alone.
The gate was still open
Waiting for him to return in
To gather his shovel and hoe
And return to the terraced land
For he had no where else to go
He was just a farming man.
The days stretched from spring to autumn
Sunrise to sunset he would toil
The work gave bounty to him
For small but rich was his soil
And returned many bits of gold
In exchange for the crops he sold,
But he needed them not
And they felt unsure in his hand
Since he had not yet forgot
His folly away from the land,
And passed the gold to the poor
Who in winter would need it more.
Another and another year he stayed,
Repairing terrace walls and such,
Daily sweat his farm was made
Having little and having so much
There in his farm all alone,
His life, his being, his home.

Gloom

[This message has been edited by Professor Gloom (04-14-2004 08:20 AM).]

Seymour Tabin
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since 1999-07-07

Posts 31720
Tamarac Fla

1 posted 2004-04-14 07:56 AM

Professor,
"Able to be Cain"
Very clever and that in itself is the poem.

nakdthoughts
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since 2000-10-29

Posts 19200
Between the Lines

2 posted 2004-04-14 08:01 AM

Having little and having so much...

some days I feel that way...
and it isn't always so bad being alone, as long as you can have a place to call home.

nicely done,
M

ThisDiamond
Member Rara Avis

since 2002-02-22

Posts 9353
Michigan, USA

3 posted 2004-04-14 09:23 AM

You are a masterful writer...and the message here was so very pure. Truly enjoying your works.
TD

Sadelite
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since 2003-10-11

Posts 2519

4 posted 2004-04-14 09:48 AM

smile sent

iliana
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since 2003-12-05

Posts 13434
USA

5 posted 2004-04-14 11:51 AM

Though I know this story happens and have even witnessed it, watching the undoing of more than one friend, I can't help but think that you would be much to wise than to let it happen to you. So, I am reading it as though you watched it happened to someone else -- with that said, this was quite an entertaining tale with even a sense of humor -- a parable of how beauty can sometimes run only skin deep.

Professor Gloom
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since 2000-07-23

Posts 3082
of Depression

6 posted 2004-04-14 12:00 PM

Thank you, all
This is a story, which originally was written long ago,
China Song Dynasty, naturally it has been updated by me
(no trains way back then for example) translated for our times
(or close to our times) I would have noted the inspiration
but the original author is unknown (folk tale) and I am changing it in ways.
The original has four parts, not sure there will be that many for my adaption.
Pleased you are enjoying

Gloom

passing shadows
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since 1999-08-26

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displaced

7 posted 2004-04-14 12:39 PM

thank you for teaching Professor

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