1732 Let Us Caress When I reflect on all the good Man holds suspect, like brotherhood, I think and pray, that all the sad, let out to play, will change to glad. Most folks, I find, would rather smile. Reason un-kind is not worthwhile. Yet Earth, it seems, knows Man’s extremes. A caring “No” is God-like art. It helps the flow that starts with heart. The frightened nod sees through a tear. Harm will applaud. Hate rules by fear. The evil cast (a devil’s deal), can never last. Love’s born to heal. Care will caress with thoughtfulness. (Papyrous: Anthem, Arizona U.S.A.; Sunday, June 24, 2012 5:43 A.M.) 1733 Terrible Lizard Talk [Please note that the numbers refer to footnotes something I rarely use but was encouraged to try. Thanks for your patience.] Terrible Lizard Talk (1) She reaped the Ghost Ranch desert floor. Pelvic holes and skulls became art, (2) But underground yielded much more -- Some dinos had a South West heart. (3) Tracking monsters prehistoric, By those with books and boots and brush, Is not all that meteoric (for they are never in a rush). In the Bahariya they found, Quite another Egyptian past, “Dinosaur Heaven” (4) in the ground. (It seems God made those bones to last). Some are finding footprints in stones. Could fossil eggs be more rare? Ten thousand Duck-Billed, dino bones, (5) Earth past, for sure, has much to share. Would the Pedernal (6) seem more grand Through pelvic-hole, by dino told? Would lily with stone eggs expand The beauty her paintings unfold? Did she see that first flash of light? (7) Did terrible embryos stir? Bombs can both dust and wake a site. Yet search we must. She would concur. Let us toast the next humerous find. How far back must the future go? Let’s find that first humorous mind, Which strived to set Man’s grin aglow. Smiley Erectus (there’s a name). Easy to remember and say, To make us laugh, if not for fame, To make Man’s un-smile go away. Where’s the dig with that fossil smile? Was it a pole shift rude and crude? Have its descendants found worthwhile Their interlude with modern mood? FOOTNOTES: 1 In 1841 R. Owen gave the name Dinosaur meaning terrible lizard. 2 1940-1984 G. O’Keefe at Ghost Ranch in New Mexico (18 mi North of Abiquiu). 3 In 1947 E. Colbert discovered many Coelophysis fossils at Ghost Ranch. 4 In 2001 J. Smith (Univ. of Penn) re-explored Dr. E.S. Von Richenbach’s pre-WW1 find that was later bombed to dust in Egypt during WW2. 5 In 1982 J. Horner, Museum of the Rockies, Bozeman, Montana. Also discovered dinosaur eggs as well as the first dino-embryo ever unearthed. 6 Mountain seen from Ghost ranch. It appeared in O’Keefe’s painting “Pedernal from the ranch” 1956. 7 July 16, 1945, The first Atomic Bomb was dropped on New Mexico, White sands area near the city of Alamogordo. (Papyrous: Anthem, Arizona U.S.A.; Sunday, June 24, 2012 6:03 A.M.) Poems 1732 & 1733 from my free poem web site poems-by-papyrous
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