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[title] => Go West Young Man
[time] => 2004-07-03 20:42:12
[hometext] => This was to be a poem about forest fires out west. It turned out to be a look back at our history. I don't know why, I just kind of go with the flow. Just to see where I end up...lol I like it ~ I hope you do too.
[bodytext] => “Go west young man” someone said, So folks everywhere began to tread, Explorers saw and passed on the news, Then the pilgrims went searching too, Land everywhere so it seemed, Beautiful land and air so clean, Rivers, lakes and mountains high, Valleys, Plaines and beautiful skies. “Go west young man” read the lad, It was the best idea he ever had, A wagon train was going that way, He was going west, leaving today, The lad grew from a boy to a man, He became a cowboy in this land, He rode horses and wrangled cows, He slept outside on the ground. “Go west young man” was the quote, Men flocked just carrying their tote, They were running to their dreams, Finding a fortune in gold it seems, Back breaking work all for gold, Many men died mining their hold, Men, men and more men came, Few found fortune ~ Few found fame. “Go west young man” is in the past, This land filled up relatively fast, Explorers, pilgrims and cowboys too, In history books with stories to view, If they could see this land of their’s, If they could once more breath the air, Would they wonder what went wrong, To their land and beautiful homes? “Go west young man,” someone’s words, Who ever said them ~ He was heard, The pilgrims have long since past, And the gold rush didn’t last, The cowboy ~ There’s still a few, That era is almost through, Slaves were freed and women vote, “Go west young man” a biased quote. “Go west young man”, century’s fade, Progress ensued ~ To this land’s dismay Land no where so it seems, No more beautiful lakes and streams, Mountains high have been invaded too, No where is sacred ~ No place immune, The forests depleted ~ The sky is polluted, The wildlife has been pillaged and looted. “Go west young man” is heard again, But the west is burning ~ Will it end? Fires ~ Fires ~ Human mistakes, The west is burning in it's wake, Earth quakes to plague the west, Destroying all in it’s quest, Yet, this journey is as it began, Calling out. “Go West Young Man.” "Go West Young Man" ~ A quote coined by Horace Greely. [comments] => 2 [counter] => 211 [topic] => 31 [informant] => tifrob [notes] => [ihome] => 0 [alanguage] => english [acomm] => 0 [haspoll] => 0 [pollID] => 0 [score] => 10 [ratings] => 2 [editpoem] => 1 [associated] => [topicname] => StoryPoetry )
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