Tear in her eye



O say can you imagine...
a drink of natural, mountain, spring water,
or following its small stream in your vision...
where it joins others, making a creek that flows
to a clear, glacial lake, above the clouds...mountain high?

Being there on the shore you'll be seeing the tracks...
of the grizzly, the cougar, the elk, the ram, the deer, and the beaver.
There you'll make your camp and footprints too...
as the Day Star slips below the horizon,
with your love close to you, you'll feel the beauty and sigh.

This is how it should be...
before, it used to nurse the spirit you see.
Now as jets scar the sky...
as wagon trains used to rip grooves across the plain;
can you see there in your vision the tear in Mother Earth's eye?

Mitakuye Oyasin! Aho!

3/14/2014
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Submitted on August 23, 2014

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Scheme ABAXC XBXAC DDCXC X
Closest metre Iambic hexameter
Characters 742
Words 139
Stanzas 4
Stanza Lengths 5, 5, 5, 1

Lucian Tower

I began writing Lyrics, short stories, and poetry some 43-years-ago. When I was in high school, during the 60s, I met the great Robert Frost. He spoke to me about my real elementary attempts at writing and poetry. He took some time with me, after assembly hall and told me to not stop writing. Now, that I have been around the world as a USMarine, and have lived through 2-years of the Vietnam War, I still am writing. Now at 63-years-old, I am enjoying being on Poetry.com with you all. I was born 12/21/1948, in Worcester, MA. There I began trying to write lyrics at 5-years-old, on my Grandmother's piano -- this has been a life-time ambition/Hobby for me. I live now in Gallatin, TN, and I am disabled/retired from the vietnam war.This is how I move around and, hopefully, meet others of like mind/spirit. I am mostly American Indian and 4th Generation Irish in the USA. My poetry are moments, which I've seen, and lived during my life. I believe allpoetry are photos, or glimpses into moments of life. Styles have changed over the years, and it is in reading/listening to others' poems that give poets ideas and imaginations to build their own style. This is who I am, as a man, who simply loves the written arts/preforming arts. Keep on writing!Lucian Tower. more…

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