The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 1/27/09

[BlueIris]

"Thoughts While Driving Home"

Was I clever enough? Was I charming?
Did I make at least one good pun?
Was I disconcerting? Disarming?
Was I wise? Was I wan? Was I fun?

Did I answer that girl with white shoulders
Correctly, or should I have said
(Engagingly), "Kierkegaard smolders,
But Eliot's ashes are dead"?

And did I, while being a smarty,
Yet some wry reserve slyly keep,
So they murmured, when I'd left the party,
"He's deep. He's deep. He's deep"?

—John Updike

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Safe passage, John Updike...

Thank you, my dear BlueIris...

This is beautiful...

:cry:

[BlueIris]

2. This is the first Updike poem I ever read.

I was surprised to learn that he even wrote poetry.

[BlueIris]

3. Kick.

[BlueIris]

4. Kick.