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A Veteran's Song
by Alexander Goldstein → (All Poetry by Alexander Goldstein)
Tuesday, April 28, 2015    Rated "G" by the Author.
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When Heaven produces a tree of a hundred feet,

It can mostly be cut into long boards.

It’s pitiable that the worthy timber for beams and pillars

Is wasted in some remote and secluded valley.

In spite of old age its core is still strong,

But in course of time its bark gradually getting peeling.

Once those who know worth come and take it away,

As it can still be used for some stable post. 


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Reviewed on April 28, 2015
Why don't you take into consideration ‘a labour veteran,’ someone who is honourable. As an old saying goes, “An old man’s brains are better, but things are good when they new.”Cheers

Reviewed by Ronald Hull
Reviewed on April 28, 2015
In trying to fathom the allegory, it appears that you are trying to say that once a person has been forced to grow up battling in a foreign land, they are suitable for holding a stable position in local society. Some, yes. Some, no. War does terrible things to some soldiers' psyches.

Ron


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