ESSAYS - IN OTHER WAYS At times, those who write short essay pieces feel poetic. It's a common enough malady among prose piece perpetrators and many of us maintain a shelf of binders in which are stored a large number of both metric and non-metric word-ventures so of exiled dream world of wordwork.
Mine, as with others, contains a variety of items I call poetry, poems, verse, doggerel and "think" pieces in prose or a few metric lines urging to build on them some day. I plan to leaning on their contents for the next week or so . We have been on family vacation time and I don't like falling behind so I'll be doing of a time. The actual dates will be in the sig data at the end of each piece. I chose to make use of a poem which some of us feel we have concerning the holiday season just ahead for 2006.
THE FIR TREE
A fir tree
can be
for you and me...
a symbol of "the elect of heaven"
people who, on Earth are leaven
to counteract the sins of Man
with courage, uplift and firm elan
based on patience and rectitude
and seek to help him understand
how loving and a virtuous hand
can help us live in love and know
the heights and thus despise the low
and set our sights on higher goals
than those about us and save our souls.
That's what a fir tree
can be
for you...and for me.
And we dealt in short critical comments on man actions in those, as well. I was not, it seems, exactly enthused with TV's handling of adapted literary works.
T-VIEW
Books I've read all end in clinches
Dilemmas solved by spellbound inches.
But on the air the same durned story
Runs forever in extended glory!
A.L.M. 2-9-84
Andrew McCaskey amccsr@adelphia.net 11-24-06 [c326wds]
