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Name:   longtimer The author of this post is registered as a member - Email Member
Subject:   I did some searching...
Date:   1/12/2006 4:05:44 PM

Because your post got me thinking about it, I went back and found "Ode to a Bridge." The message still rings true... even though so many refuse to listen.

Ode to a Bridge...a poem by Injun Joe (reprinted without his permission)
Original Date: 1/19/2001 7:27:55 AM

I stood, on the shore, and cried
because "the powers that be" had lied.
They said it was "ours,"
then spent thousands of hours
drawing bridges to span the divide.

Chimney Rock was a beautiful isle.
Rarely seen, but a sign all the while,
of the honor of standing
against the demanding
of time, of greed, and of guile.

Then "the powers that be" said 'Enough!'"
"Its a rock! Not stock, bonds, or 'stuff'."
Would anyone care
if the rock wasn't there?
"If "the people" don't like it, that's tough!"

First we'll tell them the timber's our aim.
Many times, we have won at this game.
Then as the time passes,
and memory lapses,
We'll sell all the lots, just the same!

So they quietly went on their way
to develop the island some day.
They filed tons of petitions,
ignoring the wishings,
of people who didn't have say.

And today, where the stately rock stood,
there's not even a sign of the wood,
that once helped defend
the rock from the wind
and the evils of greed and no-good.

For this place that was once called "the Lake"
has been sacrificed all for the sake
of the wishes of few
not the old, but the new
and the power and money they make.
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memory lane - BTHound - 1/12/2006 3:22:23 PM
     memory lane - longtimer - 1/12/2006 3:55:42 PM
          memory lane - jawjagal - 1/12/2006 4:00:53 PM
               memory lane - BTHound - 1/12/2006 4:03:49 PM
               memory lane - JIM - 1/12/2006 7:00:24 PM
          I did some searching... - longtimer - 1/12/2006 4:05:44 PM
               I did some searching... - jawjagal - 1/13/2006 8:50:12 AM
                    I did some searching... - BTHound - 1/13/2006 9:00:33 AM
                    I'm similar to... - FLee - 1/13/2006 9:10:40 AM
                         TIVO - Island Camper - 1/13/2006 10:15:18 AM
                              TIVO - Ulysses E. McGill - 1/13/2006 10:19:32 AM
                         Also - lamont - 1/13/2006 11:25:45 AM
                              Also - Ulysses E. McGill - 1/14/2006 12:04:58 PM
                    I did some searching... - BigFoot - 1/13/2006 9:21:09 AM
                    I did some searching... - Feb - 1/13/2006 11:37:46 AM
                         And - roswellric - 1/16/2006 9:22:14 PM
     memory lane - Lakeshore - 1/13/2006 9:48:19 AM



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