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Earthen Plow
by David Lester Young

Saturday, February 05, 2005
Rated "PG" by the Author.
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The crust rusted bare
Oxidized fermented futility
Thorn shards of infertility
Earthen plow of poverty
Churning destructive waves.

Raising flowering piles of trash
Plastic remains of mummified dolls
Sandwiched papers of lost words
Decaying decadence of civilization
Compost of another universe of time.

Bleak landscape of open sore wounds
Cancerous lesions upon mother earth
Veins amputated from naked limbs
Haunted terra firma of noxious mists
War zone of industrial toxic wastes.

Plow of endurance recycling stench
Starving children of humanity reality
Lost innocence of hunger pains
Rummaging dreams of any existence
Bruising scars of scavenging hardships.

Exiled ignorance of wealth depravation
Caste of the lowest castaways
Staging ground for human waste
That one’s life could stoop that low
Bowels that excrement no compassion.

D.Lester Young
Somewhere in America not on company time 02/03/05 ©
The Terminated Crossfire Poet



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Reviewed by Regis Auffray 2/6/2005
A compelling and stark message, David. Thank you. Love and peace. Regis
Reviewed by Tinka Boukes 2/6/2005
Wonderful read...thanks for this offering!!

Love Tinka
Reviewed by Judy Lloyd (Reader) 2/5/2005
You know coming back today from the mountains we noticed something on one hillside how the grass did not look right as if it was chemically burned. Weird but your poem just brought forth the stark images in my mind of that mountainside. The opposite side showed green beneath the dried grass.
Reviewed by Cynth'ya cynthyaspeaks@gmail.com 2/5/2005
I like that "not on company time" description. Ain't it great David?
Thank you for stopping by my small corner of the AuthorsDen-dom (as opposed to kingdom in case you didn't catch the translation). As a politically critical thinker--which is what reading your work here brings out as my personal impression--I felt a connection between the way things are (futile) and the way things were (prosperous). Sort of a Tale of Two Cities kind of feel.

Very impassioned writing. blessin's
cynth'ya lewis reed
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