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beautiful vista

June 7, 2014
By wind_andthe_rainy PLATINUM, San Francisco, California
wind_andthe_rainy PLATINUM, San Francisco, California
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What is a body but a collection of mountains and valleys,
Rolling hills to fresh flowing streams,
Hard rocks and downy clouds,
Little flowers pressing up from the taught, smooth, earth.
But you cut them down.
You drill holes through the ocean, sucking out the once gushing warmth
You carve deep roads in the twisting mounds
You pluck out lush grass and paint on sandy turf
But pray, answer this:
Was a barren landscape ever so beautiful?


The author's comments:
This is not quite a sonnet. It doesn't follow a rhyming pattern, but it follows the progression of thoughts.

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