Past draws near
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Jake Blatt, Grade 9
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Poetry
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2004
To walk on the path of our elders,
one must know who they were.
Those eloquent wordsmiths
whose tools were not those of
musket and dagger,
but that of quill and parchment.
The masons of syllable
plotting the course of all our rhymes
and giving us reason for our craft.