Original Poetry - Places: New Galvez Town (Galveston)
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Original Poetry from Adan Lerma
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Artist's Comment: a current day tribute to the small island city that's often fancied itself a small island nation, and often acted on that fancy :-)
there's an enduringness of the place, the people, and salted blend of life that's created the unusual trait of a "shifting will," to coin a phrase; it's like a sea-legs attitude to adapting to the winds of life, with much looking forward to the many mild easy balmy days surrounding summer
related poem: "galveston island nights"
adan - february 23, 2008 - to "new galvez town"
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"the act of giving your thoughts to one you love can be as important as
the thought itself" - adan
NewGalvez Town
(Galveston)
Once again
the island stretches its people
across the sandbar of time
shifting ‘pon the
waters
of the Gulf of Mexico.
A century’s grown
old and died
since the
1900 Storm.
Seawalls,
bolstered homes,
and early-warning radar
have fattened its chances.
The island has always grown
proclaimers of their own fate.
June-teenth; Texas’ first newspaper;
my first ocean swim - my first consistent art.
And once again, only time’s cloaked look
will tell what would’ve been
lost
without the will of this island nation.
© 2008 adam light creations /
adan lerma
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Posted by Adan Lerma on 2/24/2008 1:18:01 PM |
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