[stylist] Scenic Iowa (second time around)

[Jacobson, Shawn D]

Lynda

Thanks for the good words.

I sent this in along with four other poems I thought might be appropriate (if they charge a submission fee, I want to send the maximum); with any luck at all, one of them will click with someone.

I probably wouldn't send stuff in with a submission fee accept that they reached out to us and I wanted to show appreciation.

Shawn

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From: stylist [mailto:stylist-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Lynda Lambert via stylist
Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 9:15 AM
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Good Luck, Shawn! I bet you will have some good news on that.
I think it has a good chance of being accepted - it's a really nice poem.
Lynda

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From: Robert Leslie Newman via stylist
Sent: Thursday, September 18, 2014 5:04 PM
To: 'Jacobson, Shawn D' ; 'Writer's Division Mailing List'
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Gee Shawn! That should be submitted to a "I LOVE IOWA," contest.


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Scenic Iowa
by Shawn Jacobson
Writing friends
I re-did this poem and sent it in to the Midwest Prairie review.  My thanks to those who gave comments (I remember that a lot of you did).

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 awesome 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 daylilies red, gold and white; were inspired by Father.
This blue tree painted for reasons forgotten stands out among green leaves and yellow fruit.
Scenic Iowa appears as beauty from mad color's welter.
You walk central campus, as great trees
dark green reach for evening's jewel blue sky.
Scenic Iowa peaks out at you
from the distant, building studded horizon.
As you walk this ground
that time and adventure taught you to love.
Your mother awaits you at journey's end, with hugs, food and coffee.
You have come far to see your childhood home traveling dark highways, over mountains, through storms.
Scenic Iowa appears in loving eyes
bidding you savor this precious time.
Scenic Iowa is modest, in her rolling green hills.
She shyly looks out from wooded streambeds.
Chaste she appears in wintry white
when show covers the ground.
Even in November's brown she calls through iron cold beckoning with scenic love.

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