| Ingenious Simplicity a Pantoum |
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| What mesage does our culture bear In residue we leave behind - Foam cups and plates and plastic wear, Our fast-food fashion's empty mind? In residue we leave behind We soil the landscape in our ignorance, Our fast-food fashion's empty mind Despoils a people in our arrogance. We soil their landscape in our ignorance, Abuse an integral community, Despoil their culture in our arrogance Fail to recognize their ingenuity. We trash an integral community Of families thriving in a low-tech place; We worship high-tech ingenuity and fail to see in these their and our God's face. These families thriving at low-tech pace Create a beauty in simplicity Hammer out their and our God's face. Designs in primitive complexity they create a beauty in simplicity Form the Tree of Life, the Moon and Sun, Designs of mystical complexity, Wrought in steel from old discarded oil drum. From Tree of Life, the Moon and Sun, Their stories hammered out on our discard, Their craft from old, polluting oil drum Turn art from our most careless disregard. Their mythology reborn in our discard, What message from their culture do we bear, Bringing home their craft with good regard, Displacing plastic fast-food fashion wear? |
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