The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Wed 3/26/2008)

[RetroLounge]

Language Theory

They'll be on the coast soon-where nobody listens.
there they can talk

about tulips and eucalyptus
how they are strangely similar in sound and stalk.

In one language theory:
the presence of conversation implies

an absence of deep feeling.
Another conjecture along those lines

has talk as a soup, glistening with all those fats
scientists know to be bad for the heart

Perhaps talk is the first hunger
and the hunger after that. Consider

what words a woman wants most, her lover
crooning, beautiful, over her.

He prepares a few words.
She keeps his last breathing in a book & tiptoes

out of the room. From him she learned quiet
and the difference between fete & fate

but he had no language for water, no name
for separate windows, no part of speech for the lake.

Wendy Taylor Carlisle

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:hi:

RL

[xchrom]

1. we are all underfed for want of

of the right language -- words -- between us.

[lizziegrace]

2. ...

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

4. ...

:hug:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Retro...

Oh, how lovely!

Especially these verses:

Perhaps talk is the first hunger
and the hunger after that. Consider

what words a woman wants most, her lover
crooning, beautiful, over her.

Thank you...


:hi: