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Subject: We Are The Land

Author:
Wayne Adams

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Date Posted: 04:16:23 07/03/02 Wed
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I was reading a newspaper article about the fire in Arizona and a comment by an Apache Indian gave me an idea for this poem.

When the land is well
We prosper.
When the land is burning
We are ill with it.
The land is our family
And we are a family that suffers.
We are the land
We are one with it.
It has been our protector
For millenia.
There is little hope
When the trees are burning
And the grass withers
In the summer heat.
We are the land.
We try to nurture it
So it will provide for us.
But,
When the trees are consumed.
The animals die
And the precious grass is taken away
We suffer with the land.

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Subject	Author	Date
Re: We Are The Land	Deb	15:14:46 07/03/02 Wed

Re: We Are The Land	Lori S. Maynard	20:59:59 07/04/02 Thu