[stylist] Expanded poem; Rabble

[Lynda Lambert]

Bravo! Bravo!
This is really very neat.
It is so playful.
Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bill Outman" <woutman at earthlink.net>
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 19, 2012 7:41 PM
Subject: [stylist] Expanded poem; Rabble


> Good evening folks.
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> Since we have been having a discussion about putting our works before the
> public I thought I would share with you the expanded version of my recent
> submission.  I still will go back and read the comments on the first verse 
> I
> wrote.
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> The updated version follows my signature.
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> Bill Outman
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> Secretary, Greater Daytona Beach Chapter
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> National Federation of the Blind of Florida
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> Rabble
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> I am of the rabble.
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> My words may sound like babble.
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> Sometimes they have the spirit of a rebel,
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> And stir the waters as if a tossed pebble.
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> Should my voice be mellow,
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> Or should it bellow?
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> Unable to speak I feel yellow,
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> Really an odd fellow.
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> If my idea makes too big a wave,
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> They'll say, "Sit down and behave!"
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> Then I won't be their fave,
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> Is it just approval I crave?
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> Or if I should share,
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> I really did dare.
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> The idea's impact was bare.
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> I wonder, "Does anyone care?"
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> My thought is not queer,
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> It's one you should hear.
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> But away from it you steer
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> Out of mortal fear.
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> But I hope and I pray
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> You'll like what I say.
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> The words will have might
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> From the force of being right.
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> Truth having been shown,
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> Earning me a good name,
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> 'Round the world I am known
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> With unfleeting fame.
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