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View this on my hubpage if you'd like. I prefer the format here, but, feel free to check out both and decide for yourself :-) The Squirrel, Ever Vigilant, Always Working Up down across he runs Pauses peeks Ever vigilant of hawks Eagles owls Who desire his flesh Up down across he Scurries scrounges For nuts, fruits the grand prize: A discarded apple core A half-eaten sandwich he fills his cheeks And runs Up down across to his home In the tree tops Secure and panting Stowing For like the hawk Winter Is descending.

Ezra Pound was an American Modernist (He was also instrumental in developing the Imagist movement.) poet who lived from October 1882 to November 1972. He spent much of his time in England penning many classical poems including In a Station at the Metro , along with many many Cantos. While he did do many longer pieces, he was best known for his spare and very specific poems, using concrete details and very few adjectives. An example of this, of course, is Metro which, in it's first draft was thirty lines long. The final draft is the famous two line poem, which uses very strong and specific details to show what Pound saw when he was exiting a train. He is one of my favorite poems, and also one of the coolest looking. What follow is a tribute to Pound. Instead of using my words, I chose to use words from Pound's own work and turn them into a poem. It is from an article by Ezra Pound wrote on the use of imagery in poems. It's a fun and visual way to present wha...