I'll bet you NOBODY can find this poem.....?

Question

The poem is about a group of strangers huddled around a fire in the cold. Each person has a log but nobody is willing to put their log in because it might benefit one of the others that they're prejudice against (someone of a different race, man, woman, old, young etc.). So eventually the fire dies and it is implied that everyone does too.

Answer 1

The Cold Within

(James Patrick Kinney)

Six humans trapped by happenstance

In black and bitter cold.

Each one possessed a stick of wood,

Or so the story's told.

Their dying fire in need of logs,

The first woman held hers back

For on the faces around the fire

She noticed one was black.

The next man looking cross the way

Saw one not of his church,

And couldn't bring himself to give

The fire his stick of birch.

The third one sat in tattered clothes

He gave his coat a hitch.

Why should his log be put to use

To warm the idle rich?

The rich man just sat back and thought

Of the wealth he had in store.

And how to keep what he had earned

From the lazy poor.

The black man's face bespoke revenge

As the fire passed from his sight,

For all he saw in his stick of wood

Was a chance to spite the white.

And the last man of this forlorn group

Did naught except for gain.

Giving only to those who gave

Was how he played the game.

The logs held tight in death's still hands

Was proof of human sin.

They didn't die from the cold without,

They died from the cold within.

Answer 2

http://www.fas.org/irp/agency/aia/cybers...

Answer 3

If you can remember a specific line in the poem just google it with quotation marks around the line.

Example:

"Once upon a midnight dreary"

Searching the above term within quotes will return info about "The Raven" by Edgar Alan Poe