Redflame ~ My Take

June 6, 2007

The NEWS

Filed under: Social Issues, Weather — R. Dean Tribble @ 4:52 pm

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening everybody whoever you are, whereever you are  Let the day spin its orbit, we’re ready for it.  

 In the newspapers  this morning< Apparently sin pays.  The front page was covered by pornographic stories.  To their credit there were no pornographic pix. One porn star featured was reputed to earn upwards $7000 a week.  For her, sin certainly pays.  And why not?  She provideds a service, though scarcely needed, but much sought after.  And Hustleer Mag is eager to shell out a million cash for a juicy Congressional sex affair.  That might give some future testosterone charged males pause.  Yep.  Sin pays.

 The weather:tango:   When I grew up on a ranch in Wyoming, we looked out the window first thing in the morning to see what the weather was like.   Now we watch the weather tango.  Against a swirling backgound of clouds, simulated seashores, and snow-capped mountains, a smartly dressed athlete dances about waving arms and pointing at the weather this and the storm that and in oratorical tones pronounces the minute degree of temperature we can expect for he next seven days.  A drop of rain indicated on the screen brings on a frenzy of explantions meteorlogical.  One thing we don’t get is the meadow lark’s song. 

Have a nice day. Dean

    

Beginnings

Filed under: Poetry, Politics — R. Dean Tribble @ 3:39 am

I am R. Dean Tribble and if anybody cares I will be most grateful. I’m starting this blog because I’ve been wanting a place where I could freely rant and rave about poetry, politics, people, and places. If some wanderer out there in the ethernet stumbles onto this site he is welcome to speak to it and it will listen and perhaps quote him.

Let’s start out with a bit of poetry, to whit, a quatrain which I used for the Foreword to my book of poems “Blue Flame.” I think it is appropriate for here.

BEHOLD THESE LINES
Behold these lines and read them well
Nor ever fret their little seeming
Within in them are the thoughts they tell
Between them lies a world of dreaming.

A lot of meaning can be packed into four little lines. One of the most beautiful to my mind is by Edwin Markham. I’ve forgotten the title but you can never forget the lines:

He drew a circle that shut us out,
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout,
But love and I had the wit to win,
We drew a circle the took him in.

How can you top that?

There’s quite a debate being reported on the proposed immigration bill which has inspired me to write this:

IMMIGRANT

Let me not be a stranger in your land
Unwanted, unwelcome, spurned
Because I speak not well the English
Shunned if my skin is dark,
Or I pray to gods of another sort.

Let me hear a welcome in your voice
Feel the warming touch of your hand,
Let me share your dream and know
I have met a wise and gracious friend.

I will pick your cauliflower, dig your trenches
Paint your houses, haul your trash,
Clean your toilets, live in cramped rooms
I will work as your forefathers
Worked to make America great.

Let me not be a stranger in your land.

I think we sometimes forget that we are all descendants of immigrants. Even the American Indians got their immigration visas a few thoudand years ago from the Asian continent. Immigrants have made and will cintinue to make America

Thanks for reading, Dean

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