The Optimist (Abilene, Tex.), Vol. 29, No. 27, Ed. 1, Friday, May 1, 1942 Page: 4 of 8
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PHILOSOPHY EIGHT TO THE BAR
SCULPTURED
That's a stinker boogie woo
Piling high and rackie too
Plenty hefty lots of jive
Jumping jitters all alive;
Tripe and trash make s.oupy hash
Lashes dollars from my cash;
Dilly dally weakened neivc
'Hold your hat to hit the curve-r-Snag
your kite string know the
trail-
Grab your pistol hit the trail.
Touch a banker get a dime
Beggars help you anytime.
Stars that glitter in the sky
God just made them don't know
why.
Tons of jabber nothing right;
Grease spots splutter out of sight;
Faces like a pickled pear
Seen in mirrors everywhere;
Dogs and cats scratch and hiss
Boy and girls and monkeys kiss
Ain't life just too full of bliss ....
Dane Lovelace
Figured carved and wind-washed
high
Off the face but features true
Weather-marked with roughed-out
texture
Living through the years it know.
Up and up still ever up
Hair in clouds of misty spray
Hallowed crown with lips in rain
While below the roots decay.
Arms akimbo non-entrancing
Buttons hard on chlsled coat .
Droopy shoulders powdered glance
Stands his love hard and remote.
Dane Lovelace
CONSTANCY
TEEN-AGE
I'd
I'd
like to write poems of fragile
despair
like to go around with dead
weeds in my hair
To show that I'm nursing a freshly
cracked heart
But I can't simply can't look the
parti
(My nose is a button my face is a
moon.
And no one believes I'll be eighteen
soonl)
Onward they roll
Those mighty breakers
As if fearful of the wind
That tosses them to the shore.
They swell and rise
A forceful surge of water
Then leap and break
Into a foamy cap of white
Upon the sea
To rise again
And do the same once more.
Pauline Witt
Ruth Rushing virgin grey
BORN DEAD
This daring form pushed from its
chartered space
And rent the blue to show its garish
face.
A skull cracked wide. cxDosine
To You
Thy love is like the freshness of the dawn
Calm as the coolest breeze that ushers in the day
Clear as the dew that lingers on the flower
Soothing as the the sun's first ray.
Thy love enchanting like the song
Of the mockingbird calling to his mate
Like dewy apple blossoms crystal pink
It heeds not the swirling winds of fate.
Thy love to me is music quiet
Like the faintest ripple on the silent stream
Pure as the petal on the morning rose
Or snow-white clouds that shade the sun's bright gleam.
Lasting as the sun doth last
As long as day docs see
Then night when it comes will tend thy love
As thy love cares for me. (
Pauline Witt
Previewing dawn without a hint of
day.
Shadows of doubt stood as expectant
men
Would stand who feared yet fought
for lurid sin;
And dust that should become a liv-
ing skin
Fell back to graves for want to
try again.
by Dane Lovelace
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CANDLE FLAME
My soul is like a candle flame
Flickering in a breeze
Sweeping now from side to side
Tioublcd not at ease
Fit st reaching heights of joy
Then into depths despair:
Blown to and fro.
The candle flame is burning low
Sputtering now a spark.
The breeze is gonel It burns a song
Brightly pure and still
And thus my soul responds
To every passing mood:
Till peace Is found.
Mary Margaret Baucom
Nobel Prize Winner
Good Propaganda
By Loa Short
(Note: If readers of this review
desire they may read it in serial
form in the Asia Magazine begin-
ning in the September 1941 issue)
"Dragon Seed" is an artistic fail-
ure of that Nobel Prize winner
Pearl Buck and yet a popular
success.
One cannot read this propagan-
dists novel without there being a-
rouscd within him a compelling ub-
horance for what the Japanese stand
for. The bombing of unprotected
cities in China devilish devices for
breaking Chinese spirit military
murders and general looting of
Chinese territory by the maraud-
ing sons of the Sun is capably
drawn by an authority on China.
As is The Good Earth Miss Buck
paints an excellent picture of the
Chinese "family formula." The fam-
ily of the earth-loving Ling Tan has
only indifference for political events
but wakes slowly under the Japan-
ese wrecking process.
That simple Bible-like cadence
Miss Buck uses in all her novels of
China is again used.
Readers may consider this Miss
Buck's contribution to our defense
propaganda necessitated by an em-
ergency. It Is strong work.
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