I probably passed middle age some miles back, Doug,
but the rage lives on.
Hal
"We fought a war on poverty,
and poverty won."
--Pres. Ronald Reagan
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On Apr 23, 2007, at 9:15 AM, Douglas Barbour wrote:
> Wow, you're into the sonnet as angry (middle-aged?) man format,
> Hal; it's not just the trees....
>
> accompanied by a blues lute?
>
> Doug
> On 22-Apr-07, at 7:23 AM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
>
>> Sonnet: At the Treeline
>>
>> Exacerbated trees lined up along the far horizon,
>> spelling defeat for the nearby townspeople, ready
>> at last to speculate openly on their failure to elect
>> competent ministers and sheriffs and deputies.
>>
>> Dismantling the silences around them, voluntary
>> amnesiacs filled in missile silos and adjacent
>> barns, as though no one were out there to threaten
>> them, their way of life. Rifts between generations
>>
>> became more pronounced, threatening their pre-
>> consumerist idyll. Yet still, we take our daily
>> bowlful of lies and, adding milk and a sprinkling
>> of sugar, force it down. Leaflets fell from the trees.
>>
>> The sky above, as hostile as ever, its deep blue
>> more incongruous with each passing moment.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hal
>>
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