[Congressional Record Volume 144, Number 64 (Tuesday, May 19, 1998)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E897-E898]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




         CONGRATULATING TYLER SELLERS OF VICKSBURG, MISSISSIPPI

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                        HON. BENNIE G. THOMPSON

                             of mississippi

                    in the house of representatives

                         Tuesday, May 19, 1998

  Mr. THOMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to congratulate one of my 
constituents, Tyler Sellers of Vicksburg, Mississippi, for winning a 
Grand Prize during the recent international poetry contests sponsored 
by the River of Words

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Environmental Poetry and Art Project. A third grader at Culkin 
Elementary School, Tyler has written a truly moving description of one 
of the pleasures we can all gain from a healthy natural environment. I 
would like to read the poem into the Congressional Record in hopes that 
it will encourage all its readers to develop a better appreciation of 
the great outdoors.

                        Fishing on the Ouachita

     I burn my lure beneath the surface,
     Cordell redfin, real as rainbow
     you like to feast on.
     Starving striped bass
     cruising for a bleeding shad,
     you rise swift as white gulls above me,
     deep from your blue hidden kingdom.
     I wait for the moment
     when I feel you strike
     like a flood swallowing a levee.
     Your fight breaks the water,
     silver courage stronger than this line.
     It gives, you take,
     becoming my wish for another day.

     

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