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In Memory of
Roger M.
Ethier
Ethier
1930 - 2013
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DARK PINE
A long time ago in a place far away.
I told Roger that if I got a chance
I would recite this poem at his passing
as it fits him to a tee. However, that is not going
to happen so I'm posting it here along with a picture of Roger on his new bike.
Dark Pine
If my life force, by death decree,
Could find green haven in a tree,
And there in peace untroubled years
Could dream, immune from toil and tears,
Though I'm a lover of all trees
I woud not favor one of these...
I would not choose a brittle palm
Beside a sea of senile calm;
Or willow droopily adream
Above bright babble of a stream.
No cypress would inhibit me
With dark and dour austerity;
Nor olive, shattering the light,
Nor popular, purple in the night.
The sanctuary of my search
Would not be oak, nor ash, nor birch:
Ah no! Their comfort I decline,
Let my life-force pervade a Pine.
Aye, when my soul shall sally forth
Let it be to the naked North,
And in a lone pine desolate
Achieve its fit and final fate;
A pine by artic tempest torn,
Snow-scourged, wind-savaged and forlorn;
A viking trunk, a warrior tree,
A hostage to dark destiny
Of iron earth and icy sky,
That valiantly disdains to die.
There is the home where I would bide,
If trees like men had souls inside,-
Which is, of course, a fantasy
None could conceive but dolts like me...
Let others vision Heaven's gate,
Dark Pine, I dream for me you wait.
Posted by Milt Mcguire
Thursday December 12, 2013 at 8:15 pm
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