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PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 5:22 pm 
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Yesterday

Yesterday
I was planning to go out and play
But the job called me in anyway
And that’s how I spent yesterday

Suddenly
She had a fever reading 103
And of course they had to call in me
Oh, yesterday changed suddenly

Yes I had to go
Could not say no, I had no say
They dropped a subtle hint
And there went
My yesterday

Yesterday
I had plans to go and hike a way
Now I need some time to hit the hay
Oh, I’m still bummed by yesterday

Yes I had to go
Could not say no, I had no say
They dropped a subtle hint
And there went
My yesterday

Yesterday
I had plans to go and hike a way
Now I need some time to hit the hay
Oh, I’m still bummed by yesterday

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 Post subject: Yesterday
PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 5:23 pm 
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Whan That Aprille

Along one edge of town runs
A broad mown strip of land,
Bounded by trees on both sides,
Following the path of unseen pipes.

It’s not such a scenic place;
The youths in their four-wheel ATVs
Keep the low-lying spots churned
Into deep, brown, muddy trenches.

A heavy overnight rain
At the beginning of April filled
The trenches with fresh run-off,
Knee-deep or more in places;

By next morning the silt had
Settled, and left the water clear,
So that the worst swampy section
Looked almost like a broad stream.

That morning I sat on a carpet
Of pine needles along the bank,
And listened to the birds calling
Active now that the rain had passed;

And heard the zephyr singing
In the treetops, and watched it
Turn the stagnant surface into
A long miniature sea of ripples.

Now and then the breeze
Abruptly changed direction,
And marked its path with a chaos
Of glittering wave motion patterns.

I watched and thought how the drier
Parts of the cut would soon be covered
With April blossoms; then got to my feet
And resumed the day’s pilgrimage.

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 Post subject: Yesterday
PostPosted: Wed Apr 08, 2015 5:26 pm 
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Arkansas Sakura

It’s that time of year when here
And there in the woods we see
Sprays of white among the green
Buds and still winter-bare branches.

Like the spring cherries in Japan
They fill a need for whole trees
Covered with pure petals to gaze
At in a mild and pleasant season;

A season all know will soon pass,
Taking the blossoms with it, as
Transient as everything we have
In this floating world in which we live.

When I was a kid we could drive
In the woods up on the mountain
And see more blossoming dogwoods
Then you could shake a stick at;

And it was well worth rattling over
A few miles of muddy gravel road
To see so many blooming native
Trees unplanted by any human hand.

One day, when I was still small,
Dad showed me a pure white dogwood
Blossom, and pointed out that each
Of its four petals bore a little notch;

And told us how with just a little
Imagination they could remind one of
A wounded head, two wide-spread hands,
And a close-bound pair of nailed feet.

Of course Easter always came right
Around dogwood time, and in the midst
Of dyeing and hiding eggs and all the
Other trappings of a childhood holiday;

We were always reminded also of what
The day was really meant to be about;
Even the awakening dogwoods helped us to
Remember, with their wounded blossoms.

When I see the dogwoods every spring
I see two ways to read their blossoms;
It’s easy to see a symbol of life’s transience,
But also of life's return after leaving for a time.

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