Tuesday, August 8, 2006

Lightning Farms Comments

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Strikes of light across the sky
Thrown long and far to see
Awesome forces play their hand
Thrown power flying free
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Paul Moosberg
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Will Barber 08 August 2006

This is a lovely poem. A fresh metaphor of drawing fire from heaven, the legend of Prometheus comes to mind. You are a sort of modern Ben Franklin, who invented the lightning rod. In old comic strips, when a character got an idea, the cartoonist would draw a lightbulb above his head. A statue of yourself might feature a strobe light upon your forehead!

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