Friday, June 03, 2016
Haiku Friday: Texas
I just got back from a trip to Texas (visiting prisons), and as usual it left an impression. Everyone has a thought about that state, so let's blog about that this week! Here, I will go first:
Baylor, like Texas
Its tragedies are epic
Water/Fire/Power.
Now it is your turn! Just use the 5/7/5 syllable recipe, and have some fun!
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Texas: Blue cities
Surrounded by vast red swathes
A state in conflict.
Is Texas South? West?
Progressive? Or regressive?
Is it Brown? White? Black?
Is bigger better?
Is celebrating your past
Really just racism?
A state of contrast
It doesn't know what it is
And that's dangerous
The Lone Star State needs
Less pride and more compassion
Less brag, more caring
And it starts with me.
This Texan bleeds for his state
What it still can be
-- Bob
Surrounded by vast red swathes
A state in conflict.
Is Texas South? West?
Progressive? Or regressive?
Is it Brown? White? Black?
Is bigger better?
Is celebrating your past
Really just racism?
A state of contrast
It doesn't know what it is
And that's dangerous
The Lone Star State needs
Less pride and more compassion
Less brag, more caring
And it starts with me.
This Texan bleeds for his state
What it still can be
-- Bob
# posted by 
: 11:03 AM
: 11:03 AM
At John Armstrong School
Highland Park, Texas, I learned
State flower, song, bird
In third and fourth grade.
The Battles of Alamo
and San Jacinto
Texas history,
not United States or World.
Fire to my small heart
Not the Mockingbird
Or the Bluebonnets or song
But this one teacher
Who saw in us each
Gifts we could not see ourselves
Who we longed to be.
Highland Park, Texas, I learned
State flower, song, bird
In third and fourth grade.
The Battles of Alamo
and San Jacinto
Texas history,
not United States or World.
Fire to my small heart
Not the Mockingbird
Or the Bluebonnets or song
But this one teacher
Who saw in us each
Gifts we could not see ourselves
Who we longed to be.
# posted by : 11:45 PM
: 11:45 PM
Uncle 'Vester came
From Arvin and made "Come back
Dip" from Mayo,ketchup
And Tabasco and
Served it with saltines.Everything
In Texas he said was
The biggest in the world,
Which apparently didn't
Apply to him.His
Daughter rode the flat-
Bed truck like a surfboard."Looka
Here,Daddy," she said,
"Ah'm surfin' " We hoped
For treacherous curves...and she
Had 'em. It proved to
Be a weird summer.
Trying to explain farming
To city slickers.
From Arvin and made "Come back
Dip" from Mayo,ketchup
And Tabasco and
Served it with saltines.Everything
In Texas he said was
The biggest in the world,
Which apparently didn't
Apply to him.His
Daughter rode the flat-
Bed truck like a surfboard."Looka
Here,Daddy," she said,
"Ah'm surfin' " We hoped
For treacherous curves...and she
Had 'em. It proved to
Be a weird summer.
Trying to explain farming
To city slickers.
# posted by : 8:18 PM
: 8:18 PM
I've held a grudge since
Sixty-three...she in her pill-
Hat and blood-stained suit
Never tried too hard
To removed stereotypical spectacles
Air conditioners
Running overtime
Cheerleaders and bullets from
Watchtowers.Oil rigs.
Even God plays football.
Still there was that time in Austin
Air soft as butter. Steel
Guitars stimulated
A rockin backbone. Ambrosial
Beer like a glacier.
Sixty-three...she in her pill-
Hat and blood-stained suit
Never tried too hard
To removed stereotypical spectacles
Air conditioners
Running overtime
Cheerleaders and bullets from
Watchtowers.Oil rigs.
Even God plays football.
Still there was that time in Austin
Air soft as butter. Steel
Guitars stimulated
A rockin backbone. Ambrosial
Beer like a glacier.
# posted by : 8:35 PM
: 8:35 PM
I have many friends.
But I've only known one since
eighth grade, Dave Baxley.
David made his home
state fun. Vacation on lake
in the heart of Texas.
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But I've only known one since
eighth grade, Dave Baxley.
David made his home
state fun. Vacation on lake
in the heart of Texas.
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