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11-09-2003, 03:24 AM
Chuck Lysaght
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when orchids came to earth
(Susan Murray) wrote in message . com...
The first rainbow
Was not overlooked
Everyone came
From the overworld
From the underworld
From men's dreams and dead religions
To see, to rest on the bridge over the sky
But so many showed up
Every god and sprit in a million pantheons
The rainbow creaked and moaned
And when at last a mayfly settled on it
It was the last straw
And the humpback rainbow split!
Into a thousand shards of light
Into every color and shape
Raining on the earth
Like the tantrum of
Some mad impressionist
Many were lost
But some, the rare few
Clung to the trees
Found refuge in must
And nooks
And thrived
These are the orchids
A reminder to all
The beauty can only bear so much
Before it is vaporized
"Raining on the earth like the tantrum of some mad impressionist."
That has to be one of the best lines I've read in a good while. You kick ass, Susan.
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