When it comes to fireworks display and consumption, the Fourth of July in the USofA is the New Year's celebration in other countries such as the Philippines. Most people love to buy and mess with them even if there are risks involve. Hence, fireworks stands are all over the place and, on July 4th, smoke and noise pollution are suffocating and dumbing.
Yes, Fourth of July is the celebration of the American independence. In the early days, the most important parts of the fanfare were the reading of the Declaration of Independence and the music in the bandstand. Nowadays, it is the firework display.
In observance of the Fourth of July, I am posting this blank verse, an unrhymed iambic pentameter poetry form, with the hope that everyone will have a "safe and sane" celebration, because life is too short and fragile to risk.
DANGEROUS! BEAUTIFUL!
...And look! They whistled! They zoomed up sooo high,
Like rockets shooting to the distant sky.
They spew those embers of gold as they fly
Exploding to a colorful splendor.
Oh! What a wonder! A transformation!
Dangerous cyclindrical invention!
They add colors to a celebration,
Either New Year's or the Fourth of July.
How awesome, beautiful they really are;
Those embers bursting like mushrooms...
bright jelly fish with falling tentacles.
They mesmerize, excite everyone's eyes.
Mix all: sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal...
So risky! Messing with it, not for all.
Pyrotechnicians, they know every rule.
Leave to them this dangerously beautiful.
Our life may be dangerous, some may say,
Risky business to traverse and parlay.
But they who create know what is the best.
Leave work to them, just enjoy everything.
(c) 2007 edmund melig industan
HAVE A "SAFE AND SANE" FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION EVERYONE!
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3 comments:
Dan Akinlolu of So. Africa wrote in my gmail the following interpretation:
this is cool, not bad. It reminds me of seeing the American jet fighters in "awesome" display across the Afghan landscape.With laser guided missiles " They whistled! They zoomed up sooo high," and soon " They spew those embers of gold as they fly" and once they hit the terrorist residence they explode "to a colorful splendor." and burst to spew those deadly smokes in a colorful splendor , "Those embers bursting like mushrooms... bright jelly fish with falling tentacles." and the innocent American and British soldiers are excited about the hit, accurate targets they call it because the enemy camp in Afghanistan and Iraq are in disarray and has become a total "Mix all: sulfur, saltpeter and charcoal...." , and the American soldiers?"They mesmerize, excite everyone's eyes." with over ambition and wanton destruction of life and property. Perhaps we should leave the war business to them "Leave to them this dangerously beautiful." acts, afterall it is July 4, Independence day.
dan akinlolu
Rica D. of San Diego also wrote:
Thank you so much, and hope you'll have a good one also...I will pass this one hope they all have a safe one..
Rica Derosier
Carl of U.K. wrote:
"like the poetry..."
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