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Poetic Thoughts - To Joshua Strodtman - by C.W. Pruitt II
posted: Dec. 15, 2006
Back in the winter of 1998/99 we were frying up potatoes every day. Adding flavor from a rack of spices, we were enjoying our poverty.
Josh Strodtman would often drop by during morning potatotime. One day Josh dropped in as I was cooking potatoes to start the day. We began to discuss the origin of beautiful ideas in human consciousness.
Josh then said something that has stuck with me more than the starch from all of those potatoes: "It's like there are fruit trees which grow from the Earth and stretch into the Heavens. When the fruit is ripe, it falls to the ground. The humble look down, pick it up, and share it with the world."
To Joshua Strodtman
grasping
instead of pressing -
what falls to the Earth
from glorious trees
is well worth
picking up
C.W. Pruitt II
July 7, 2006
picking and choosing
searching - perusing
seriously amusing
the benefits of looking around -
like a rare find
in a Goodwill store
a diamond
in the rough
in the climb
up the mountainside
C.W. Pruitt
July 7, 2006
cw@broadripplegazette.com