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Sep 10, 2007
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Symphony - Unfinished
not complete, been stuck with it for about a week.
Symphony
It gets dark here
faster,
in the rural skies
over Wellington,
Ohio.
It gets dark here
and these young woods come
alive.
There’s a symphony that starts
every night at dusk
as the human sounds diminish,
it’s natural poetry.
Every cricket is predator,
and every one is prey.
This is real beauty:
A great horned owl.
In the middle of the night
it became bitterly cold
in our tent,
and the night’s music stopped,
no rhapsody.
And so,
like woodsmen my son and I
collected firewood -
the trash of dead trees
and built a suitable fire.
In the early morning dark
we ate pancakes cooked over open flame.
Most of our meals here
are of the high carbohydrate variety.
Bread and potatoes
and protein from meat,
for energy.
— Conect11, Sep 10, 2007
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Critiques
weirdelf
18 years 9 months ago
Oh mate, my smile here is poignant and sad.
IKnowNoBox
18 years 9 months ago
I just started to go there.
IKnowNoBox
18 years 9 months ago
the title is what actavates the transition.
Conect11
18 years 9 months ago
totally agree
weirdelf
18 years 8 months ago
I have that problem big time
Quillsvein1
18 years 9 months ago
you