The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #105603 Message #2177198
Posted By: Rapparee
23-Oct-07 - 09:11 AM
Thread Name: BS: Poems that speak to you.
Subject: RE: BS: Poems that speak to you.
Grass
Carl Sandburg
Pile the bodies high at Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Shovel them under and let me work -
I am the grass; I cover all.
And pile them high at Gettysburg
And pile them high at Ypres and Verdun.
Shovel them under and let me work.
Two years, ten years, and passengers ask the conductor:
What place is this?
Where are we now?
I am the grass.
Let me work.