[stylist] New Poem "Scenic Iowa"

[myrnaspoetry]

Yes it is all that. I found it to be a picture of serenity and the reminder that beauty is found in all things. I really do like this. 
Myrna

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> On Aug 11, 2014, at 7:13 AM, "Jacobson, Shawn D via stylist" <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> OK folks.
> Here's another poem for anyone who wants to look at it.
> I apologize for not getting to Jackie's poem, I'm either real busy (or it's a slow day and I forget that the poems were sent.
> Shawn
> Scenic Iowa
> by Shawn Jacobson
> Scenic Iowa does not awe with mighty mountains
> or roar with crashing ocean waves.
> She does not amaze with stark desert vistas
> crowned with wondrous red rocks,
> nor does she dazzle with towering cityscapes
> crowned with a myriad twinkling lights.
> You are in your aunt's garden.  The daylily was inspired by father;
> this bench is in honor of mother scenic Iowa appears.
> For the sight of many living things comes together in new beauty
> from the welter of things alive.
> You walk central campus, Buildings new and old share the horizon.
> Great trees stretch in evening's coolness.  Scenic Iowa appears.
> For this place that time and adventure taught you to love
> will not be yours much longer.  You will be gone.
> Family and friends await you smiling.
> You have come far to see this over the great dark highway
> through cities, mountains and storms.
> The time here is short, the future uncertain,
> scenic Iowa is in the savoring of precious time.
> Scenic Iowa is modest, chaste, reclusive
> coming to those she knows as friend.
> Her joys are unexpected arising at their own time.
> She walks your soul with subtlety quiet and serene.
> She walks with you seldom seen, but always there.
> 
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