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Old Times Not Forgotten
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Al Sommers
06-11-2007 09:29am
After attending our 50th Reunion and seeing so many old high school friends, I thought it would be fun and a tribute to some of our more memorable teachers (Miss Laura Johnston and Miss Annie Terry were two of my favorites) to create a place where we could share our thoughts and experiences about life then and now.  Thanks to Ronnie Rose and others we have that place in this web site.

Over the years, I have traveled  far and seen many things, as we all have.  One of the most precious discoveries has been the power of  Haiku.  These short poems  express  powerful images and feelings.  It is a form of poetry we all can write.  I'm sure Miss Johnston would be proud to hear me say that.

I welcome you all to try your hand at writing some and posting them here to share.

I'll start with a recent Haiku that came to me as I planned my trip to our 50th Reunion.  I had not been in Alabama for over 42 years and some of the old feelings came flooding back to me.

OLD TIMES NOT FORGOTTEN
Thinking of red clay
I remember the smells
Of Alabama summer



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Ronnie Rose
06-11-2007 01:58pm
Although Sandra Copeland and I did write the 'Class Poem' at Cloverdale Jr High,which ended with:

Dear Cloverdale we will miss your halls
But out in the somewhere our future calls
So on to tomorrow and out of today
With cherished memories,we are on our way

BTW we are no longer 'on the way'

I don't think I ever mastered the ancient Japanese poetic form of Haiku.
Something like 5-7-5 and repeating.
So I will be surprised if we get participation from our classmates on this......

However if we should say....complete the following:
There once was a man from Nantucket.....


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Al Sommers
06-17-2007 05:54pm
Ronnie,
You may be correct but there maybe one or two in our class.

Here is a new one for our schoolmate Jim Cargile (West Point 61) who won't bet me (USNA 62) on the ARMY-NAVY game.  A sad situation therefore a sad Haiku for Jimmy-san,

Cargile's Lament

Hell on the Hudson 61
Navy Blue and Kadet Gray
My spirit gone for the last quarter




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Jim Cargile
06-18-2007 10:25am
Al, I bet you $5.00 that you can't sucker Neil (neilg@engr.colostate.edu) in on the Army-Navy bet!




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Ronnie Rose
06-18-2007 06:27pm
Well we can always get a bet out of our friends at Alabama no matter what the record is.
With Saben there now they will be giving points by next season.


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Jim Cargile
06-19-2007 09:55am
Alabama, along with many other universities, and even Air Force and Navy have viable football programs that are competitive at some level. Army has football for internal consumption only so any football players they happen to get will have a team to play on. Army has forsaken the competitive spirit embodied in McArthur's 'On the fields of friendly strife...' which, if I remember correctly was posted on the wall in our gymnasium at Lanier and certainly should be remembered at West Point. '... seeds of victory' are not likely to be sown on barren, non-competitive playing fields.


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Ronnie Rose
06-19-2007 10:30am
Jim
Thanks for bringing back that memory of football at Lanier and the quote from McArthur that hung in the gym.I had forgotton about 'the fields of friendly strife'
I have just acquired a signed photo of McArthur and now I am going to incorporate that quote into the framing.
Ronnie


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Neil Grigg
06-20-2007 11:17am
Jim, don't give up on Army football.  In '07 we will take the Commander in Chief's trophy and have a winning season!

Neil


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Al Sommers
06-20-2007 02:30pm
Al, I bet you $5.00 that you can't sucker Neil (neilg@engr.colostate.edu) in on the Army-Navy bet!

Well Mr. Cargile, I'll be looking for that $5.00 from you.  Neil and I have a bet on the 2007 Army-Navy game.  My faith has been restored in WP spirit.  It's not whether you win or lose except in the Army-Navy game.
BEAT ARMY




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Jim Cargile
06-20-2007 03:39pm
Neil, do you mean I have a good chance of recovering my $5 if I bet Al Sommers on the Army-Navy game?  Barbecued goat for thanksgiving would be a big change!


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tom c. maynor
08-07-2007 03:21pm
i'm not sure if this is haiku or not but i read this on a wooden toomstone
in boot hill, lead,sd

here lies charlotte
born a virgin,died a harlot
at age sixteen she lost her virginity
which ain't too bad
for this vicinity.


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al sommers
08-10-2007 07:38pm
Hello Tom,  That is good enough for South Dakota.  How about this one?

Heavy summer air and strange sounds
Hot Tukabatche night
I see KYBO before my weary eyes

*******  Boy Scout memories in the out house, oh my



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Al Sommers
11-27-2007 01:40pm
here are three new Red Clay Haiku for your enjoyment-

IMPOUNDED
Sixty-five dollars
And cyclone fence keeps me from
My El Camino

PRIDE
Grinning, he displays
The nine hundred beer cans that
Fill his pickup bed

GATHERING
In early morning mist
Mama searches Circle K for
Moon Pies and Red Man





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