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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
ON THE OLD HIGHWAY, by JAMES SCRUTON First Line: Gone now are the funky museums | |||
Gone now are the funky museums, the reptile gardens and the (not all that) Amazing Rock Formations: shapes of states, silhouettes of the famous. I miss the fake two-headed lizards, the frog with see-through skin, that cavern said to be an outlaw's hideout way back when, every billboard genuine with adjectives and blistered paint -- like the one for Mystery Cabin, where we could witness laws of gravity defied. We didn't know how it was done, or knew and didn't care. We wanted to believe a ball could roll uphill, an egg stand at attention on its narrow end, the glass jar at the entrance kept from levitating by just a handful of coins. Copyright (c) 2001 by The Modern Poetry Association. This poem appears in the September 2001 issue of Poetry Magazine. http://www.poetrymagazine.org | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...THE AGE OF DINOSAURS by JAMES SCRUTON ITALY SWEET TOO! by JOHN KEATS THE VALLEY OF FERN: PART 2 by BERNARD BARTON PSALM 104 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE PSALM 2 by OLD TESTAMENT BIBLE HILL CIRCLE by FRANCES HALLEY BROCKETT MY VALENTINE by ERNEST CAMP JR. LAZARUS by WILLIAM WILFRED CAMPBELL OBSERVATIONS IN THE ART OF ENGLISH POESY: 16. TROCHAIC VERSE: THE TWELFTH EPIGRAM by THOMAS CAMPION TOWARDS DEMOCRACY: PART 4. IN A SCOTCH-FIR WOOD by EDWARD CARPENTER |
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