Naiad 1976 - Lake-Sumter Community College
Naiad 1976 - Lake-Sumter Community College
Naiad 1976 - Lake-Sumter Community College
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Haiku<br />
April in the country<br />
mud time; frogs peeping<br />
Bright blue skies, brief<br />
showers come.<br />
Pink arbutus blooms.<br />
Midsummer<br />
mown hay scents the air<br />
shrill-toned locust's voice<br />
is heard<br />
heat-waves rise at noon.<br />
Tornado<br />
clouds piled up a loft<br />
nature's vacuum swept by<br />
death strolled down<br />
the street.<br />
Summer night<br />
whip-poor-wills call<br />
babies cuddle down to sleep<br />
mothers heave a sigh.<br />
Perry Hughes<br />
Third Place Poem<br />
<strong>Naiad</strong> Creative Writing Contest<br />
Requiem<br />
The days when eyes were bright and hopes soared high<br />
Are scuttled in a slough of broken dreams<br />
Where fifty-thousand hearts were all pumped dry<br />
In payment for an unsuccessful scheme.<br />
With honor, pea\?e is what we sought in vain.<br />
Through bluff we tried to stem a rising tide,<br />
But armies that we sweated blood to train<br />
Proved well equipped with everything but pride.<br />
So honor now is just another word,<br />
A word that politicians used too long<br />
While disregarding protests that were heard<br />
And warnings that our course had proven wrong.<br />
But had they listened then to what was said,<br />
All fifty-thousand pawns would not be dead.<br />
Harold Larimer
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