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From Tom Eichhorst in New Mexico, USA,
I am not a huge poetry fan (although I do enjoy Art's occasional snipits),
but the following poem was passed to me with the thought that some on the
list might enjoy it. The author's e-mail is at the end if anyone wants to
respond. So, without further ado....
Hi
I am Val Magnuson, poet
Wrote the following piece which I think your group might enjoy:
SHELLS
Expatriates of stormy kingdoms
Cast to a different realm
Spindles, volutes, turrets
Extraordinary univalves
Lodged in temporary castles
amond the vacillating swells-
with stoicism sit,
The children of the sea
Awaiting their collection,
momentarily-
Frenzied winged and fingered creatures
The flocking multitudes
Ship corpses off to distant shelves
With worms and platitudes
Chambered nautilus repossessed
Poets scrambling for stiff pens
To toast the "Glory of the Sea"
Viewed only now and then
Tiger tritons trumpet
Queen Conch in rose hued gown
Bittersweet pieces rearranged
Along the spiny crowns-
Turbans, helmets, tulips
periwinkled bonnets tossed
At the fighting conch's finale
Dollars and stars at cost
The ocean has her fans
Peculiar specimens
Preferred by common hordes
And in conchology's metaphors
While fallen butterflies
In states of metamorphosis lie
Eternity crunching on-
Val Magnuson
C2001
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