<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=550421" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Digging for Nuggets</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You got to work and sweat, kid! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The old prospector looked up at me<br>as he squatted on the river bank.<br>He held a battered pan and washed<br>grains of sand and gravel in river water.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was a cold day in the middle of July<br>with clouds overhead and a stiff breeze<br>blowing from the north. I was tired<br>and weary of squatting and sifting dirt.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was years later when it dawned on me<br>that prospecting was very like writing<br>You sit in front of the monitor<br>and sift through ragged thoughts<br>trying to glean a nugget of metaphor<br>from the stream of consciousness.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then suddenly light breaks through<br>you warm to the task and see...<br>there in the light, a sparkling metaphor.<br>You grasp it before it eludes you<br>and flows away - you hold it aloft! <br>I finally struck gold!</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Pruchnicki">Michael Pruchnicki</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=550421" data-title="Digging for Nuggets de Michael Pruchnicki" data-description="You got to work and sweat, kid! The old prospector looked up at me as he squatted on the river bank. He held a battered pan and washed grains of sand and gravel in river water. It was a cold day in the middle of July with clouds overhead and a ..."></div> </div> </div>

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