000! "Tele-pathetic!!" by Da Duck

Folks,

here's one I started when I was 17....a LONG...LONG...time ago...and finished when I was in my mid-20s

The last Character, Kenneth, recently passed away, so I searched my database for this to post in his memory.....

For you, Kenny Moreland, old & dear friend.....really miss you!!!!

But in my words, you live on eternal!!!!

Thanks to you all for your comments & continued reading...and please...tell your friends, as the sites travelled most get higher listing...meaning more get to see the site

Thanx!!!!

Stuart Phillip Kaufman

Moral: To Live For The Sun

Stuart Phillip Kaufman

A Plain, proud, old Poacher,

with crinkled kid gloves,

went hunting his prey:

' Those rarest of rare things '

that elude him each day.

He's chased them through Forest,

so green and so tall;

and chased until there was no chase left within him at all.

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Thinking one day,

as he sits on a rock,

" There must be a den

where this strange breed would flock."

So,

he filled up his pockets

with Silver and Gold;

To make Fame

and make riches

and new stories to be told.

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Then, he hired three men,

all different in thought,

who had agreed to help find

the thing that he sought.

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The first one was David,

the wisest of all,

whose cunning and wit

made most enemies fall.

Since David was wisest,

' The Planner ' was he.

His job,

plot the course

to where their stronghold would be.

And

with David's devotion and courage

so obvious to all;

it proved to me

that true David,

was the truest of all.

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To my right

there was Edward,

whose strength was acclaimed.

But, 'twas his valor and courage

which made him so famed.

He possessed hair dark as Iron

and hands like a bear;

but there is no gentler person

nor one who's as fair.

So, I call him ' Cathedral ',

due to his Godly ways.

His job,

friend and rival

till the last of our days.

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And lastly was Kenneth,

whom of all I loved best.

For, he could keep one immobile

with his unending jest.

He was dark-skinned,

slender;

just right for this quest.

For his talent was hunting

for days without rest.

And, in my heart,

where friends should be,

he commands the most glorified post.

For his clever disguise of comedy;

makes me respect him the most.

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Now!

Through the fire,

to the heart of the flame;

through the heat of the fiery Sun.

It's time to prove to me

you're what I had expected you'd be;

for the chase has just begun.

And chase we did,

for the next three days

we ran

and ran

and ran.

For,

Somehow

they had learned

of the quest we began;

and thus,

uncovered our plan.

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Now!

Three days gone by;

'twas mass confusion

and we've come up with nothing yet.

For,

everything we thought real,

was, in turn,

just illusion;

and everything else

we would just forget....

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A year has now passed

since we started;

all four of us,

gone our own ways.

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When I last heard of Edward,

he was living with Natives;

a new way of Life.

While Kenneth and David

had both taken a wife.

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A Plain, proud, old poacher,

with crinkled kid gloves,

still hunting his prey.

Every second,

of each minute,

of each hour,

of day......

Moral: To Live For The Sun

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Stuart Phillip Kaufman