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  1. Newsgroups: alt.callahans
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!news.claremont.edu!jarthur.claremont.edu!dgreen
  3. From: dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu (David Green)
  4. Subject: Poetry...
  5. Message-ID: <1993Jan26.073351.8882@muddcs.claremont.edu>
  6. Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
  7. Organization: Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA 91711
  8. Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 07:33:51 GMT
  9. Lines: 38
  10.  
  11. There seems to have been a little poetry flowing by here lately, so I thought
  12. I'd throw out the only poetic piece I've written in several years.  That it
  13. is rhymed and metered is unusual for me; I usually tend toward 'free verse.'
  14. Somehow, though, it seemed to fit here.  Also, I don't know why, but actually
  15. posting this here kinda makes me nervous...  I'm open to critique, but... don't
  16. harsh on it too hard, hmm?...
  17.  
  18.  
  19.                                      I am
  20.                                 My own Paradox,
  21.                               Self-contradictory,
  22.                               Human-accepted, and
  23.                                  Human-denied;
  24.                               Silently standing, I
  25.                                Wield my humility:
  26.                              Forged from my modesty,
  27.                                Born out of pride.
  28.                             Light of the heavens, and
  29.                                Dark of the world,
  30.                             I travel the travelled to
  31.                                Make my own path;
  32.                                 Walking alone--
  33.                               Always accompanied,
  34.                              Friend of complacency,
  35.                                Comrade of wrath.
  36.                               Looking behind me--
  37.                            The road lies before me--
  38.                         Knowing oblivion, longing to be,
  39.                             Hidden from no man, and
  40.                              Stranger to everyone,
  41.                               Finding I'm mostly
  42.                                     Enigma
  43.                                     To me.
  44. -- 
  45. dgreen@jarthur.claremont.edu                       David "Mishael" Green
  46.             Have you scritched your local Furry today? 
  47. ************************Who ordered the muon? -- I. I. Rabi*********************
  48.   I have not been appointed Judge, Jury, or Executioner by God.  Just witness.
  49.