[stylist] New Poem "Scenic Iowa"

[Jackie Williams]

Shawn,
I love this poem with its sharp contrast of what most consider scenic, to a
more comforting and quiet scenic. I know Iowa so well-its history of the
first to do the beautiful contour farming as seen from the air, to the towns
of Decorah, and Fayette, the latter home of a most scenic and revered Upper
Iowa University, to Ames, the magnificent trees, and the lakes and streams
through the state. Once you have lived in this scenic green, it reserves a
special place that no amount of dramatic scenery such as you find out west,
can ever replace.
I think you have captured the special spirit of Iowa.

Jackie
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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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