The Good Man

This is Urban Tiki what can I say about the guy... I'm not so eloquent with words as to be able to 'wing it,' and put what I've learned about the man in prose, so allow me to use the words of someone who can express what I know better than I.

 

I hope I make my point...

 

The Good Man

for Urban Tiki

 

The good man's history flies away before him


like a dance-partner's broken string of cultured pearls,


leaving him holding all those glowing memories


in the goblet of his upturned hands.


And people rush to bring him more,

more reasons for his generous thanksgiving.


Blessed from birth with a good family,

a good mind, a good sense of humor,

good nature and his gift,


the good man multiplies his talents


an hundredfold, blessing from their births


his own good children,


and participating in creation


in other joyful ways as well.


In the picture-book garden of virtues,


without fanfare, without flags,


the good man gently illustrates honor.


Gray-haired, smiling, he holds


toward the reader his joined hands,


a bowl brimming with light.

 

Marilyn Nelson, Connecticut Poet Laureate


December 24, 1999

 

 

Taken with a Nikon D200

 

The that beauty in his gut? The Hasselblad 500EL/Phase One P20/

 

and as the 'good man' once put it ,

 

'Lit, as we do, with a flashlight."

 

C.C.

Done