[stylist] New poem

Thu May 29 12:24:48 UTC 2014

Barbara

Sorry!  I'm a Cyclone fan regardless.  I got two degrees there.  The first was a BA in Political Science in '81 and the other was a masters in Statistics in '83.  My aunt worked at Iowa State for 30 years; she was very influential in me going there (a different story) LOL.

When I was there, the celebration was beginning to degenerate into what it is now.  The thing was, people mostly got drunk in the dorms or out in the woods (away from downtown) and you didn't have thousands of people in a drunken mob.  I think that what really hurts me about the whole thing is that these are my tribe in a very real sense.  It's not like the riots in Los Angeles or Miami where you can say that it's a different type of people.  These are my own and I must own the storm.

I get the impression that colleges in the '40's and '50's were more sedate in general than they are now.  They were smaller and less democratic.  I was in college at a time when you could be in student government and not do the tea dance thing (I kind of did the Friday night keg party thing).  How I survived the place I will never know, but I loved my time there.

Once again, thanks for the good words about this poem.  Don't see where I can publish it except among the group.

Shawn

-----Original Message-----
From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Barbara HAMMEL via stylist
Sent: Thursday, May 29, 2014 8:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [stylist] New poem

LOL! Glad I'm a Hawkeye fan.
Barbara

Sent from my iPhone

> On May 28, 2014, at 9:54 PM, "Barbara Hammel via stylist" <stylist at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> 
> And it may not have been in that era but now it's just an excuse to get totally plowed and act stupid.  They stopped it for a few years just because of what happened this year.
> Barbara
> 
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> Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.--Robert 
> Frost -----Original Message----- From: Jackie Williams via stylist
> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2014 8:19 PM
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> Subject: Re: [stylist] New poem
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> Shawn,
> Your poem and Barbara's comments were a complete shock to me. In 1947 
> I attended  Iowa State College. My father had gotten his doctorate 
> there, in Chemical Engineering. I enrolled in Home Economics, failed 
> chemistry loved the Campanile in the center of the beautiful campus, 
> and the tea dances at the student union. Somehow, rage does not equate at all with my memories'
> did not graduate from there, but quit for two years to work out west, 
> and returned to Syracuse  for my undergraduate degree in '52. You must 
> be a graduate of Iowa State. Lots  of my family history is in Iowa.
> A good graphic and harrowing poem.
> 
> 
> Jackie Lee
> 
> Time is the school in which we learn.
> Time is the fire in which we burn.
> Delmore Schwartz
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of 
> Jacobson, Shawn D
> Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2014 9:19 AM
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> Subject: [stylist] New poem
> 
> Below find a new poem I wrote just recently.  I hope you like it.
> 
> Shawn
> 
> Children of the Storm
> 
> After the fury, silence
> the restaurant talk is subdued
> on the morning after.
> With dull fear and jagged shock
> we survey the ruin, the riot storm
> set loose the night before.
> The feast day shattered, sundered
> by their stormy rage.
> 
> Darkly I wonder why
> what dread spirit turned
> this celebration dark, a dread cyclone.
> Fierce, angry like dangerous weather,
> and bid them caper before the storm
> destroying with senseless rage
> the celebration made for them
> in honor of this place.
> 
> What should I say now?
> I came here to eat, not judge.
> Yet I cannot stay aloof,
> removed from all of this.
> These cyclonic rioters are mine
> my people, my tribe.
> So I must own the shock,
> 
> the rage, the storm.
> So I to must ponder
> such dark enchantments
> that call the storm from within
> the anger and the rage,
> the destroying fury of the storm
> for I must own the cyclone in my soul
> That sunders sanity leaving only shards.
> 
> In the storm's shadow
> we have unleashed our violence.
> We are spent cyclones.
> 
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