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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:34 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Tue 12/13/05)
When You Go Away

When you go away the wind clicks around to the north
The painters work all day but at sundown the paint falls
Showing the black walls
The clock goes back to striking the same hour
That has no place in the years

And at night wrapped in the bed of ashes
In one breath I wake
It is the time when the beards of the dead get their growth
I remember that I am falling
That I am the reason
And that my words are the garment of what I shall never be
Like the tucked sleeve of a one-armed boy

W.S. Merwin

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RL
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:35 AM
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1. Heavy sigh
:hug:
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:36 AM
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2. Good Morning KW! Thanks for the hug!
This is a poet I do not know much about, but I have found some really nice poems by him.

How are you doing today?

:hug:

:hi:

RL
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:38 AM
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3. My heart is heavy
I am anti death penalty and am feeling the pain of another execution.

Other than that I am healthy, my family is safe and well.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:40 AM
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4. Glad you are healthy and your family is safe and well
Gotta keep them warm on those cold Minnesota nights!

RL
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swimboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:44 AM
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5. Hello, RL
Lots of imagery of the grave and unrealizable potential. I wouldn't want to spend very long in this time. :hug: and earnest :loveya:
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 09:38 AM
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7. "It is the time when the beards of the dead get their growth"
The imagery of this line in particular is quite nice...

Gotta spend whatever time is needed to get thru it.

RL
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swimboy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 11:49 AM
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11. That and the bed of ashes and the empty sleeve
What an economy of words to summon the images to provoke exactly the intended mind/gut involvement. (I need a new language.)
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:30 PM
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12. economy of words
Yes, that is exactly it. An economy of words.

I need to read some more Merwin...

:hi:

RL
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Callalily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:47 AM
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6. I'm moaning softly . . .
<And that my words are the garment of what I shall never be> how sad.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 09:39 AM
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8. So much power packed into so few lines
:hug:

RL
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Callalily Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 12:35 PM
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13. Yes . . .
I’m continually amazed at these talented poets. They can bring thoughts and feelings down to the least common denominator.
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progmom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 09:51 AM
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9. wow.
thank you, again. i look forward to these every day, and find myself clicking on the thread repeatedly to reread the poems.

:hug:
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merh Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 10:52 AM
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10. ...
Darken memories of yester

faded shadows to remember

of a time that’s lost forever

after cold days in December

when our love was oh so young

Timid smiles and empty actions

Withered hearts and weary emotions

without feeling true devotion

could our love have begun
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:08 PM
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14. My dear RetroLounge....
Every day, I look for and find you.......

I hope that your grief shall be soon ended, but I know that the poems will probably end then as well.....

In the meantime, I love all of these......

This is such a spare yet very moving little work....

Thank you


:loveya: :hug:
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 02:19 PM
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15. I do not think the poems will end any time soon
I am enjoying the search and the learning and the reading of them too much to end posting them.

Thanks for the hug...

:hug:

RL
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:00 PM
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16. Beautiful and heartbreaking
:hug:
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:49 PM
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18. Yes, it is...
Beautiful and heartbreaking...

:hug:

RL
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tigereye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 04:37 PM
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17. boy, was (is?) he good!
Edited on Tue Dec-13-05 04:39 PM by tigereye
don't know much about him, but the lines are very elegant and efficient....
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RevCheesehead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 07:57 PM
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19. I'm not sure how I feel about this one...
It feels empty, yet yearning. Longing for fulfillment.
And perhaps a touch of hopefulness?

I will ponder this further.

:hug:
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-13-05 08:09 PM
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20. I just loved the sound of the words
read aloud!

RL
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