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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
REMINISCENT, by JAMES CHRISTIAN LINDBERG
First Line: Strange how a simple weed can hold so much
Last Line: A simple weed can so hold so much.
Subject(s): Children; Poverty; Childhood
First Line: Strange how a simple weed can hold so much
Last Line: A simple weed can so hold so much.
Subject(s): Children; Poverty; Childhood
Strange how a simple weed can hold so much:
A bare-foot boy under an open sky,
An eagle proudly poised and soaring high;
A clump of willows where the river bends,
A far horizon where the prairie ends;
The red-winged blackbird's fluted call,
The sumac's flaunting fire—
And blending all, surmounting all,
A boy's insatiable desire.
A simple weed can so hold so much.
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