Ode to Spring

Ode to Spring
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Oh, what divine sweetness lay,
When once the sodden chill gives way,
To the fragrant springtime’s full bouquet.
Here, the delicate new buds of softest green,
Speckled by dogwood hues, so rarely seen,
The flashing of the ruby-throats at play…

To walk the winding trail again,
Where bees hang afresh in metallic vim,
A queen’s nectar pours, her vibrant dances send…
By the flowered dewberry, plumped with grand conception,
Wherewith, this seasonal murmur of new dimension,
Unfolds in rich diversity, divinely ordained…

What goes unseen by thy bedazzled eye,
Where flickers too quick for senses lie,
As wind-songs that breeze so blissfully by…
Of a language that perplexes mankind,
As fading April glows in twilight time,
There looms once more the summer’s sunburnt skies…

There is a hunger to feel the forest glade,
Where sun-bleached wood and acorn lay,
Amid tall grasses in the heat of day…
Fresh baked to fill, it can smooth thy furrowed brow,
In dreams, where wing’ed maple seeds will plow,
Imagination grows where spirit’s vision play...

What art the tangled thorns, and bubbled brook,
For soft pastels that strain through thicket nook,
And competition’s dice befalls the shepherd’s crook…
Grow lightward past the zenith’s surging height,
What inspiration of tender vision, a mortal sight,
Found in so loving a created rapture, divinely took…

What study, from field or mountain’d learned,
Of leaves that twist, in winds delicately discerned,
So beautiful, it sets one’s heart to burn…
Rain washed, and awakened in a diamond light,
A facet, once cleaved, sets free a thought to flight,
And presents delightful measures in its turn…

Feed the glowing embers in thy breast,
As spirits soar, the forest promotes heart’s purest,
Driven in thy vision, is loves quickening quest…
Behold! As God’s most cherished and worn,
We men, can understand the blossom’s thorn,
Transparent, we are illustriously blessed…

Gunner, the bird dog

Bird Dog
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Gunner

His spotted head lifts for the scent of the woods,
Ears twitch to the least of all sound.
His coat blends invisibly in fields of dry grass,
Where he moves with a leap and a bound.

He takes his direction from my point of view,
Fine tunes them with senses so sharp,
That I take directions from a wag of his tail,
As he helps me to see in the dark.

A pat on his head, and a lick on my hand,
Makes a bond as we walk through the trees.
He turns on a dime from that whistle of mine,
Every fiber of his being for me.

He runs like the wind through thicket or field,
Bird dogging, zigzagging through night.
Dog tired and hungry he'll curl at my feet,
Still guarding with all of his might.

When I'm far from home, he'll wait at the gate,
No grass can grow long where he stood.
With a jump, and a twist, and a laughing bark,
He welcomes like no one else could.

Of all relationships a man could take,
From life..., from beginning to end.
Nothing quite compares, to the companionship there,
Between a man, and his faithful best friend.

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• “Whoever controls the media, the images, controls the culture.”
  —Allen Ginsberg

  
  The Problem:
  
  The political Left in the Entertainment Industry control much of American culture, because they’re the gatekeeper of images: Media, Entertainment, and the Arts. Conservatives are losing the war of ideas because they’ve grown disconnected from popular culture and forgotten an intimate and evolving connection with the arts, dismissing them as too subjective. 

  
  Because of this, it’s becoming increasingly difficult for conservatives to attract Millennials.
  The vast majority of media and video content we see from Conservatives comes across as propaganda, characterized by vilification of the ‘enemy’ and fear tactics. Although this kind of video content can be effective in elections, in general it lacks an essential human element, fails to connect viewers emotionally to a character or story and gets consumed by whatever ‘issue’ is at hand. 

  
  Millennials respond to positive messaging. Negative ads turn them off.
  Conservative media and video content also tends to be poor in aesthetic quality, a fact not lost on the highly-attuned Millennial consumer who’s sensitive to choice of color, syntax, music, and even typeface. 

  
  Conversely, Liberal media and video content has reached a level of quality, contemporaneous, and professionalism that makes conservative media seem like home videos. 

  
  Because the video production quality is distractedly poor, the claims and content within the videos are often ignored because they appear culturally irrelevant. 

  
  Because of the impact of images, conservatism as a whole comes off as insipid, outdated and uninspiring.
  
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