Well, this is the last poem I've written in the past and never shown to anyone before. This is also the oddest. =)
A Dove
I desire peace and love;
Let this world's symbol be a dove,
Whose whiteness stands for purity
Who sails on seas of tranquil blue,
Above our red and tainted lands.
Let new emotions take their stands
Let faith in God, trust in man
Be our guide, the dove shall lead
Us to a redeemed earth.
I desire not what man desires.
Richard Gianforte 2/6/2007
This poem is about the sinfulness of man. There won't be peace on earth until Christ returns. Sure sure we can try to make it come about, but the depravity of humans stands in our way. Men don't want peace if it will make them surrender some of their desires or liberty. A peacemaker can have high aspirations, but ultimately they are fighting uphill.
The epiphanies, rants, wonderings, and events in the life of a former student of Petra Academy, now at Caltech.
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- Richard Gianforte
- Bozeman, Montana, United States
- I am currently attending Caltech in Pasadena, though I will always be an alum of Petra Academy.
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"We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard, because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one which we intend to win" - JFK
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
-John Donne "Meditation XVII" in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions
Any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind; and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.
-John Donne "Meditation XVII" in Devotions upon Emergent Occasions