Car Ride
Location
Car Ride
By- Jacqueline Lantsman
03/15/2014
The pump, silver with a logo, feeds the automobile
For the long insignificant slideshow, defined as "nature"
At times representing no contour, rather a blur portrayed through the acceleration forced by the man
The globe working on innovation, promoting speed, the blur, the insignificance
The glass separating one from the inspiration, danger, life- tinted from the radiance, portrays the interaction of society and nature- the disregard, the loss
Machinery, business? No. Instead the pondering of the corn, the trees, the complexity of interaction, life- outweighed by the developing world
The oblique characteristics, overshadowed
Tumbling into the front seat, Starbucks one hand, Iphone the other, vibrant backpack of artificial colors the shoulders
First communication requests the radio- request known rather as a demand- thus contributing to silence that would take place throughout the long car ride
Eyes out of the window, beats "blasting" the eardrums, bobbing head to the significance music has taken on in society
There goes to tree, a blur, green, with the continues music blasting, coffee devouring, Iphone contacting five other followers of society
There goes metaphorical substance, the comfort, the life granted to depending species, overshadowed by fast, innovative, appetizing, society, passing by the window
A dull imaginative world would mean, a book one hand, nothing other, an old pouch passed down from generation to generation
A walk, with parents, short distance home
Grasping the smell, clean, fresh, old but new
Cracks in branches, mountains on the trunk, veins of the leafs- nature, life
Understood entangled roots, life intertwined, homes made, bugs depending on minerals, nutrients, nature
Footprint after footprint, human and non, dirt beneath the ground, the shoes, outline after outline, the intertwined, society and nature, but appreciated, absorbed
Social quiet, not caused by blasting music, rather by nature, the crumble of leaves, the movement of the dirt, the flow of the wind, the simple but complicated, the visual but metaphorical, beneath the feet, surrounding one, who is breaking the flow of society
Dull imaginative, the past, absorbs
The social speed, innovation, abundance, restricts the complexity, metaphorical substance of nature
just like the car ride
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Cynthia Martin
To Jacqueline Landsman:
I am an environmental artist in Santa Barbara preparing for a solo exhibition, and I would love to print your poem "Car Ride" on a hand-out. It perfectly fits in with the theme of my show, which is called "The Passing Landscape."
You can see some of the paintings I plan to display at the website under my name. Please leave a reply on the Power Poetry site.
Sincerely,
Cynthia Martin
Cynthia Martin
To Jacqueline Lantsman,
Thank you so much for the permission to use your poem in a handout for my art exhibition! Sorry to have misspelled your name—it will definitely be spelled correctly for the event, and you will be given full credit! They would not let me leave a link to my website here, but if you go to Cynthia Martin Paintings, you can find it.
Sincerely, Cynthia Martin