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Thick Fur of Yellow and Red

June 14, 2014
By apples2apples BRONZE, Ringoes, New Jersey
apples2apples BRONZE, Ringoes, New Jersey
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Favorite Quote:
“All human beings are also dream beings. Dreaming ties all mankind together.”- Jack Kerouac


Thick fur of yellow and red

scurries in a field of sun and field and rain

runs up a rocky mountain and

leave prints of sludge and slush

against

the green and crooked trees.

Daylight breaks and the

sun turns to a nightlight

a sentimental guide.

which brings the creature to Zen, amity, and mindfulness

At 6.00 behind the snapping garden of groves

a shriek becomes

in sink with the mind of the groves

“YakaYakashiil”

and

stars twinkle and fade

from

“Yakayshieel!”

and the elegance is masked

and dragged through bark and birds of time.

At last the flecks of moon converse

to the sky

and the shrill is bloomed into
Thick fur of yellow and Red


The author's comments:
While studying different authors of the Beat Movement, I found Gary Snyder most interesting. After reading a multitude of Snyder's poetry, I noticed he used a variety of stylistic choices to bring the reader closer to nature religiously and emotionally. To do this Snyder, implemented Zen ideologies, such as references to breath and mindfulness. He also used connotation to express natures beauty through simple nouns, such as "trees" and "bark". In order to evoke a calm feeling on a reader, Snyder wrote his poetry with a calm poem and carries out his message through short lines. Gary Snyder's background specifically influenced his writing, because when he was a child he came to realize his parents were associated with a capitalistic group called the Wobblies. This upset anger so he decided to write poetry about nature to correlate human behavior with ecology. In turn, I wrote Thick Fur of Yellow and red using Snyder's stylistic choices of diction, tone, and natural imagery to express how Industrialization chooses to ignore the beauty of nature, because they choose to associate ecology with negativity. In my poem I wrote about how a industrialists choose to ignore the beauty of a newborn fox, because they do not look beyond the frightening mating call. All in all I hope the reader makes a connection to the Buddhist ideologies evoked in the piece, for the essence of time is important in understanding nature.

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