The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Tue 1/23/2007)

[RetroLounge]

To N, in absentia

I do not know how you went out of my life
or when exactly. The leaves of the Norway maple
are beginning to turn yellow, fall has come.
I last saw you on an evening at the end of July
but I think you were already gone then,
I think by then you had been gone for a long time.

And so it seems meaningless to count the days
yet still I count them, August, September,
October now half over, terrible days,
And I do not know where you are
or when I may have news of you again.
But I remember as if yesterday the day
you came out of my body into this world,
a fine splash in full midsummer, a small cry
like the meow of a Siamese cat,
your eyes wide open and looking all around;
remember how in the early hours of that morning,
before you arrived, I heard pass down our street
(as I had heard each morning that summer
of my thirtieth year) the clopping sound
of a lone horse pulling a calèche,
his sleepy driver bound for the road
that climbs Mount Royal's slope.

No one can take away that morning
or the exactness of its place in time.
I go there often.
I visit it like a temple.

Robyn Sarah

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RL

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[Callalily]

1. Oh RL,

this one sings to me!

:hi: :hug:

[RetroLounge]

9. ...

:hug:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Good morning, my dear Retro........

This is interesting........a poem that starts off like a normal one about love and loss........

And though it is about those things, it is also about motherhood!

Which I had not expected.......

Just lovely...

Thank you...... :hug:

[wildhorses]

3. so many questions unanswered in this poem

subtle and powerful. a masterful use of the language. thanks, again:hi:

[RetroLounge]

14. ...

:hi:

RL

[ThomCat]

4. I don't think you can post this one today.

It doesn't reference "The Gay." Geez, we have a theme today. Get with the program. :P

[RetroLounge]

7. Damn, I missed the Memo...

Maybe tomorrow...

:rofl:

RL

[ThomCat]

5. Oops. Duplicate.

Sorry.

[tigereye]

6. very, very nice!

hey Retro!

and thanks.

[BarenakedLady]

8. How sad

I hope I never have to experience that with one of my children.

:hi::hug:

[DixieBlue]

10. Oh, that's beautiful.

And so, so sad.

[swimboy]

11. Like a temple

yes, just like a temple.

That's a true thing.

Thanks, man. :hug:

[RetroLounge]

13. Hello my friend!

:hug:

RL

[lizziegrace]

12. Nice

painful, but nice.

:hug:

[NC_Nurse]

15. Beautiful.

and so sad...:-(