Yes, you have got there after all that work! good poem!
bw
SallyE
on 12/11/03 5:04 pm, c s shah at [log in to unmask] wrote:
> Impressions (Revised)
>
> After the eruption
> lava flows over earth
> and carves forever
> the shape of a river.
> Sorrows of the centuries pour
> as the clouds gather in the eye.
>
> Hot sand scalds my soles now
> as I walk over the dried-up
> river-bed.
> Tears are long exhausted,
> but the sorrows have no end.
>
> On the hard igneous bed you'll
> find the fossil-imprints
> of our feet -
> mine, her, and of a friend
> who tried to show us
> the escape route.
> This was a land-locked territory
> of the cursed continent, not
> the soft sand of a seashore.
> --
>
> c s shah
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