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Burrowed Beneath

Burrowed beneath the cool
Florida sand
Lies the rattle-tailed
shiver of sapian
In darkness meshing of
Gopherus and Horridus
Vestiges of
a creation once
Concordant.

Loti Sonata

Morning Meditation

 

in morning meditation
pondering the creation
how from nothing
we were created
one to hear
another one deaf
one to bloom
another to gloom
more the mystery
the new creation
where wind blows
we never know
yet it goes
while one bends
another breaks
how one see's
this morning beauty.

Impression Loti

There are several differing interpretations of this same scene, from sharply focused to a slow shutter impression. I am drawn to the soft, painterly look of a slow shutter.

The Sad Shepherd

Amazon sent my copy of Collected Poems by Yeats yesterday, a very nice little hardback from the Collector's Library. This is the second poem in the volume. I look forward to the rest.

The Sad Shepherd
by W.B. Yeats

There was a man whom Sorrow named his friend,
And he, of his high comrade Sorrow dreaming,
Went walking with slow steps along the gleaming
And humming sands, where windy surges wend:
And he called loudly to the stars to bend
From their pale thrones and comfort him, but they
Among themselves laugh on and sing alway:
And then the man whom Sorrow named his friend
Cried out, Dim sea, hear my most piteous story!
The sea swept on and cried her old cry still,
Rolling along in dreams from hill to hill.
He fled the persecution of her glory
And, in a far-off, gentle valley stopping.
Cried all his story to the dewdrops glistening.
But naught they heard, for they are always listening,
The dewdrops, for the sound of their own dropping.
And then the man whom Sorrow named his friend
Sought once again the shore, and found a shell,
And thought, I will my heavy story tell
Till my own words, re-echoing, shall send
Their sadness through a hollow, pearly heart;
And my own tale again for me shall sing,
And my own whispering words be comforting,
And lo! my ancient burden may depart.
Then he sang softly nigh the pearly rim;
But the sad dweller by the sea-ways lone
Changed all he sang to inarticulate moan
Among her wildering whirls, forgetting him.

Hail State

Hail State
by john clare stokes

Hail dear old Mississippi State
Fight for victory today
Please win this series for Will Clark
Not "The Thrill" William Nuschler of Giants fame
Nor the duo of Palmeiro and Clark of
Thunder of Lightning
But the Brookhaven Bulldog
Homewood born native son
William Clark Stokes
Bulldog fan even before sixty-one
The semi-pro who hurled fastballs in Florida leagues
Cracking leather in earshot of Canaveral's rocketry
Who after years since seeing me in Sopchoppy
Was not, so good to see you
But, you see who State signed from Pascagoula?
Hail dear old Mississippi State
Fight for victory today
Please beat those Bruins for William Clark
Who would have named his first born Bully
Had his sweet Rose Gamillion not had a say
Who believed the only pure color
Was not orange, blue, purple or crimson
but burgundy
And while all the titles went to cheating schools
State and only STATE played by the
official rules.
Hail dear old Mississippi State
Fight for victory today
Please give one title to William Clark
Who for his entire life stayed the course
Rang the cow bell when others sat silent
Wore forever the burgundy poly coaching shorts
Learned braille just so he could
make the blind see
The only thing you need to be
is a blindly loyal
Mississippi State
BULLDOG.