But why?

But why?


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when thrall to choosing

     gaze then upward,  shawled  Dowinger

         youth, spanned, rare in joy

                what's still yearned forth springs

             dares touch just what the eye can see


     abaft, flown so:

          a loft, alee,

          trans sept and nave


ken all, a Musing

       Maze, when suffered: tall Lauinger,

            truth stands there, ahoy us,

                    struts astern, and brings

                 there, such must strut: a Library

        encraft, stown so,

              but  soft, and free,

              sans klept, hands lave

then fall, as pews sing

        grazing, cupward,  all browse inward
     
              new lands, where the joyous

                  bell of learning, rings

                      dares much:  just the why?, there be

         tho daft, known so,

               what's croft with glee

               Man's crept, banned slave

thus if, anon, remiss, yet pray


     cock's crow's report, bell clocks the dawn


           achieves the goal Men, stalking, stumbled

just shrift when gone, Plea this, let, may


     although held short, as locks when shorn  


           alleves the soul, then, balking: humbled

belief in Christ sufficed; let faith accost,

     once whole, we mourn, full well, to dwell, bereaved,

           and will, in wrath, in pain, depraved,
 
relief, mispriced, enticed, yet wraithed when lost

     the soul, ill torn, (who'll tell: cruel Hell), aggrieved
    
           but still the path of pain be braved

as tho thru lifting hand:

            let, strown, on high



    to waste, misplaced





            to rend, then end,

                  the gifts we're given



when grown, you understand;

             yet know not; aye



     once chaste, debased,





              amend and tend,

                    then drifts, ere riven

the oaths avowed Man's kept can save
  
  the goal to bind,

          depart this world

     new breath, past sin

                  fair Earth, afleet

betroths allowed, sans klept can lave





   the soul, the mind,

              the heart unfurled,

    in death, as in

              rebirth: the feat

And as we fall

     Astride, across

Life has in All

      Defied the Loss      

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2009/10/13 09:11 Metro to GUTS./Rosslyn to GU for breakfast

Thought I would let people see this one as it developed.
The inner paraqeet never knows where it is going to go next, until it gets there..

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2009/10/18 17:32 most of the rest Lauinger/3rd.  I do not have a clue where this comes from.

     I am just a witness to it's arrival.