The Child and Man Woodrow in Brevard County

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”bright jewels of the mine”

The mountains of my father’s childhood scene

Are cumulus tall white.  The Matterhorns

He loves loomed up above his coastal green

Of palms with their palmetto groves.  He scorns

Forbidding snow and ice of Asia’s peaks

And Europe’s.  Mount McKinley’s stone-like cold

He sneers at silently.  His mangrove creeks

Reflect the sun, its beauty brighter gold

Than mining in South Africa can yield.

He does not need the storied mountain scenes

Of other realms.  His boyhood fancies wield

A loveliness like Oriental screens.

  Mere mountains are not like the poetry

    He memorized before new Floetry.

Floetry – Wikipedia [⇐Click]

© Phillip Whidden