An *ahem* Poem Thread Friday 6/19/2009

[miss_american_pie]

Somewhere Outside of Eden
by Reginald Shepherd


for Robert Philen



I saw all these things the moment
contained (what the light
proposed), a camellia bush
in thick red bloom all January, some
flowers browning on the dormant
lawn (still green): they smelled like something
afternoon; wax baskets of evergreen
mistletoe hung from bare limbs
of a southern red oak, verdant
parasite on the sleeping life, a full complement
of complementary colors.



The three o’clock half-moon
dangled above still-lifes of tree grass house
like a quarter shoved in a slot, we passed
an empty lot where two azalea
bushes and a spreading live oak
marked the place a homestead
had been; a steep voice tumbled down
a slope of lawn (we’d walked
right into March), only a mockingbird
perched in the heights of a naked tree
on the periphery of day.



When you said, Let’s go home,
I answered, Where is that.









N.B. I personally don't enjoy a lounge without poetry, so for the next nine days or so when I have internet access I'll do my best to post one of my choosing. Hope a handful of you enjoy them.

:hi:

[momto3]

1. Thank you. eom

[miss_american_pie]

2. And thank you

:hi:

[malta blue]

3. Thanks m_a_p

:hi:

I will miss the poetry threads too....

[miss_american_pie]

6. How've you been?

:hi:

[malta blue]

9. I'm well, thanks for asking

Very busy - getting Little MB ready for a cruise to Europe with her grandfather (10th b-day gift). She is home after that for a week, and then off to sleepaway camp! Oh, to be a kid again......

Hope all is well with you :pals:

[miss_american_pie]

10. Oh wow

What a lucky girl.

We're good here.

[rug]

4. Lewis Carroll had an apt poem.

"The Hunting of the Snark"

"Just the place for a Snark!'' the Bellman cried,
As he landed his crew with care;
Supporting each man on the top of the tide
By a finger entwined in his hair.

"Just the place for a Snark! I have said it twice:
That alone should encourage the crew.
Just the place for a Snark! I have said it thrice:
What I tell you three times is true.''

more at

http://theotherpages.org/poems/carrol03.html

[miss_american_pie]

7. Indeed

I was just explaining to my kids yesterday what "going down a rabbit hole" means.

:hi:

[DarkTirade]

22. ... wait a minute...

Are you being snarky? :P

[blueraven95]

5. Good Morning, miss_american_pie

Thank you for filling in; I was missing the poetry too.

Please say hi to Retro for me.


:hi:

[miss_american_pie]

8. Sure thing

:hi:

Good morning to you too. I hope you have a wonderful Friday.

[blueraven95]

18. I hope you have a wonderful Friday too,

and a fantastic weekend!

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. I, personally, don't enjoy a Lounge that appears to be a chapter ripped out of 1984...

...anymore. Are you next? Is he? She?

I mean really :wtf:


Hey miss_a! How are you? :hi:

[miss_american_pie]

12. I am well

How is life in Texas?

I was just talking about you this morning. You've been in my thoughts. :hug:

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. It is hot...I mean really HOT...

Thanks for thinking of us. :hug:

[auntAgonist]

13. thanks! I was hoping to NOT miss RL's poetry threads.

I hope you're well.

:)
aA
kesha

[miss_american_pie]

15. I'll try to be a decent replacement

I am.

How is the baby girl doing?

[FloridaJudy]

16. Thank you. eom

[miss_american_pie]

17. Welcome

:hi:

[fight4my3sons]

19. Thank you

:)

[Crabby Appleton]

20. Hi Miss Pie - RL must have written some really awful poems

to get suspended like that!

:hi:

[Sky Masterson]

21. You could have just posted your picture

That would have been poetry in itself ;) :loveya: :pals:

[no name no slogan]

23. Nice!

:D