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Poetic Thoughts - 2 Paragraphs, A Poem, And A Song - by C.W. Pruitt II
posted: Sept. 04, 2015
2 Paragraphs, A Poem, And A Song
Below are 2 paragraphs, a poem, and a song I wrote this year (2015) for St. Herman of Spruce Island, Alaska. He was the first person canonized by the Russian Orthodox church from the Western Hemisphere. He seems to me (and my friend Scottie May) to be an incredibly interesting dude.
2 Paragraphs
St. Herman begins missing the bears when he tends to the needs of his church on Kodiak Island. St. Herman begins to realize that he loves bears more than people. Any lessons from this point forth will be things that St. Herman learns from bears, because human beings are not worth emulating.
St. Herman has dropped out of society completely (except for his once-a-week forays to Kodiak Island.) St. Herman does not see himself as a saint. St. Herman simply sees himself as one who greatly prefers the company of bears to the company of humans.
A Poem
St. Herman
digs bear culture
to the exclusion
of human culture
sometimes St. Herman
makes the most sense
of the saints
to me
A Song
as the needs
of others
would descend
upon him
his thoughts would drift
to the bears
to the bears
to the bears
the needy humans
would clatter
in his ears
but St. Herman's
mind would go adrift
to the bears
to the bears
to the bears
but he would
take peace in knowing
that when the
folks stopped
their clattering
that he would
go home
to the bears
to the bears
to the bears
cw@broadripplegazette.com
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