Friday, June 22, 2018

Poet, soldier, miner, builder, farmer and lover view the same scene.

There is no better spot on earth for this:                 
to tend our love with tempting sounds and rhyme;
to leave this place untouched would be remiss.

A soldier I. When bullets crack and hiss
I’ll dig a bunker here in double time;
there is no better spot on earth for this.

I am a miner. Life is far from bliss;
I render up the metal, slag and slime;
to leave this place untouched would be remiss.
         
I like to build; my tall creations kiss
the topmost clouds; here they shall higher climb;
there is no better spot on earth for this. 

I’d spread the scene with horse manure and piss;
then sow with liquid chemicals and lime;
to leave this place untouched would be remiss.

I was a lover once, I reminisce,
we lay together here in summertime;
there is no better spot on earth for this 
to leave this place untouched would be remiss.