Our Trails

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    Our Trails

    In the end
    all of our trails intersect
    our footprints mingle
    the mountains look down
    the prairie grass continues to grow
    some of our ancestors never saw the sun
    some of their faces were perpetually burnt by it
    the intimate vastness of our country
    rejoiced by the people
    the seasons inseparable from our lives
    we stay
    would we leave during winter?
    Our ancestor’s rise up
    from the prairie grass
    loom down at us from the mountains
    our truths are in the same mountains
    plains hills valleys meadows
    that hold our energy
    that feed our livestock
    that maintain our wildlife
    that has filled our bellies
    the bellies of our fathers and mothers
    the bellies of our sons and daughters
    and will fill the bellies of their sons and daughters

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    Teardrops commented on Our Trails

    02-19-2011

    You use the beauties of earth to discribe your life and its wonderful. you are a very gifted written and i love this Marie

    The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

    Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet (1803-1882)

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