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- From: bunny@bsu-cs.bsu.edu (Marsh)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.poems
- Subject: Poem - Where the Ravens Feast
- Message-ID: <3161@bsu-cs.bsu.edu>
- Date: 20 Nov 92 01:37:59 GMT
- Organization: CS Dept, Ball St U, Muncie, Indiana
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- WHERE THE RAVENS FEAST
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- Late autumn brings a chill to nest here,
- snarling, as the feet of winter;
- apathy steals over all the fields and
- makes them listless, sleepy, dreamy
- for the sun of summer not long past.
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- Squashes dot the countryside with orange,
- yellow, brown and green - like flowers
- in the dead and tarnished grasses,
- a funeral corsage still fresh among
- the crushed, forgotten, crumbling leaves.
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- Cool winds remind us, catch a sweater
- as we come outside to walk in early dark;
- and as the daylight ebbs away and birds
- flock low in fading trees the shadows
- cover the cornfield where the ravens feast.
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- -Tracy Flynn-Marsh
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