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Still Minor
by
Thomas James Allen

  1. Inspiration
  2. Morning Mist
  3. Change It
  4. Windblown
  5. To Cheryl
  6. Family
  7. A Ring for a Finger
  8. A Lifetime
  9. A Tear on the Edge
  10. Variations In and Out
  11. Metamorphosis 2
  12. Changed
  13. To Jon, A Poet
  14. Summertime
  15. Cooling
  16. Ripples on the Lake
  17. Stairs, Stars
  18. Ants and Men
  19. Someone Who Loves You Is Dying
  20. Captured Stars
  21. Hopped Up Racer
  22. Springside Reflections

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Family

Scattered on the edge of land,
Conch and clam and seaweed strand;
Litter left upon the shore,
Vacant shells are used no more;
Mother Nature's refuse heap,
They're on the beach for Man to keep.

The crashing waves pull back the sand,
They sweep the beach with foamy hand;
Then the quiet flowing back
Leaves the shells along its track;
Defeats the purpose He had planned
For the edges of the land.







Notes:
Written 01-31-1978.



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