Dave's High School Poetry - 1975

 

An Idea

A child bursts forth unwillingly
And helpless through his early days;
Once stationed leaves no place to flee--
Foundations needed for support.

Unfollowed images deluge
And painful care in choice abound.
Rewards involved are surely huge
But chances taken infinite.

The bold shall prosper even more
For footholds number with the know.
Determination keeps the score
So that shall make the variance.

02/12/75

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Well, this is simply an ode to 'an idea', born weak, groomed, fought over. I remember thinking about thinking, literally pondering the process that an idea goes through to become fact. I spent much of this day working back and forth between my thesauraus (purchased by myself from a neighbor's garage sale) and my dictionary (aged and yellowed and inherited), enjoying the sudden wealth of words with shaded differences in meaning. Again the strange A-B-A-C pattern and why oh why couldn't it have made the 'difference'?




Originally Written: 1975
Original Web Upload: December 2000
Last Update: April 29, 2001