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Array ( [sid] => 60845 [catid] => 1 [aid] => mick [title] => Old Man Under a Tree: A Poignant State [time] => 2004-08-20 20:13:45 [hometext] => I'm very happy with the outcome of this one. I'm not very cocky, in fact probably one of the least cocky people out there but this poem along with two others of mine have won me much recognition and a few contests. Hope you enjoy. [bodytext] =>
This torn
Beat down
Soul
Finally sits to relax
Listens to the kind voices of the trees
They share a common depressing fate
Their age has preciously but wickedly
Taken them over
Revealing an interesting and
Almost
Beautiful outer presence
The beauty of experience
Of prolonged visions of life
Of inconceivable methodical wisdom
But the cigarette, which lounges on
The man’s furrowed
Old
Bottom lip
Delivers an abrupt paradox
The incredible length of life that
Sits before our eyes
And the
White
Venomous cigarette
Which subtracts the years and
Makes what could have been
A never will be
But the old man is still young
A child compared to human existence
He is depicted by the ignorant
As an insignificant article
In history
Only a kernel in a
Cornfield
But the old man disperses
Contentment and bliss
As well as care for nature
The tree and the man are linked
Humans and nature
The cool shade provided by
The breathtaking
And seamless
Architecture of the tree
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Old Man Under a Tree: A Poignant State

Contributed by funkdoob on Friday, 20th August 2004 @ 08:13:45 PM in AEST
Topic: Lifepoems

This torn
Beat down
Soul
Finally sits to relax
Listens to the kind voices of the trees
They share a common depressing fate
Their age has preciously but wickedly
Taken them over
Revealing an interesting and
Almost
Beautiful outer presence
The beauty of experience
Of prolonged visions of life
Of inconceivable methodical wisdom
But the cigarette, which lounges on
The man’s furrowed
Old
Bottom lip
Delivers an abrupt paradox
The incredible length of life that
Sits before our eyes
And the
White
Venomous cigarette
Which subtracts the years and
Makes what could have been
A never will be
But the old man is still young
A child compared to human existence
He is depicted by the ignorant
As an insignificant article
In history
Only a kernel in a
Cornfield
But the old man disperses
Contentment and bliss
As well as care for nature
The tree and the man are linked
Humans and nature
The cool shade provided by
The breathtaking
And seamless
Architecture of the tree

Copyright Â© funkdoob ... [ 2004-08-20 20:13:45]
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