Hello Colin,
             I find this one less successful. I think the central problem, for me, is that your image of the tractor and the dandelion does not carry the weight you wish it to. I understand that your thesis here is approximately that `the pen is mightier than the sword´ where your tractor is the sword and your dandelion is the pen. But tractors are not all that bad. We rely on agriculture for our food. And dandelions are not all good. I believe gardeners dislike them and maybe they bother farmers, too. The conflict between the plant and the machine seems overdramatised to me. The appearance of the poet and tyrant doesn´t really help and the second half of S1 becomes rather turgid. I hope this helps.


Best wishes,   Mike


--- Alkuperäinen viesti ---
The Tractor and the Dandelion

Who would have thought it likely
the tractor and dandelion
would inhabit the same field,
poet and tyrant tread the same path,
agent of change live with the unchanging
in this recurrent game?

Even as advancing metal
expunges the living plant
the dandelion spreads its seeds to further fields.
Leaves sprout anew amid rusting wrecks.
Long after the assassin's bullet
the words of dead men rise from the grave.



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Colin