OMG -- I finally got in! Poem -- cee/pee?
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OMG -- I finally got in! Poem -- cee/pee?
| Wed, 01-02-2013 - 4:53pm |
I've been trying for weeks to get into PW; how the heck is everyone? Hoilday news? Let's here it! Poem below -- first one of 2013. Feel free to c/p, if you're still around!
It Was Amicable
We’d promised until winter,
but early summer tired us.
Towels chaotically packed
beside belts and shoes.
First Communion candles wrapped
along with christening gowns —
should we argue
over these precious white goods
or dissolve them
like prismatic sugar cubes?
Confusion reigns
as the clock winds down.
© 2013
"It is with a strange malice / That I distort the world."
-- from The Weeping Burgher by Wallace Stevens
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Hell's bells Pat! Strange happenings here of late? BTW! Belated but sincere, MERRY CHRISTMAS and a HAPPY NEW YEAR.
Been in a rut of late, grave sized. Never mind though I have heard from you once more.
Your poem...(here we go again,) first stanza, indicates a family commitment that maybe wouldn't happen? Second stanza says it Will happen. Third stanza reveals all, a Catholic happening that definitely Will happen. Fourth and fifth stanzas gives rise of hope to a poor irreligious sod like me that reason Will prevail especialy if "prismatic" is converted to "pragmatic". I totally agree with the last stanza., Gawd help me.
I had to log in twice just to reply to you. Beyond frustrating! I'm glad to hear from you -- shows me the spring in your clock is still in working order.
I finally got in - only 1 sign-in (the "keep me signed in" box obviously has never worked since the big revision) and 2 extra trips to your post before I finally reached the promised land of "add a new comment".
Your poem: a family break-up? Why the urgency of the clock winding down? The tick tock of the winding-down clock sounds ominous, not confusing.
I like "prismatic"!
Roberta
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Confusion as in "why did this happen; where did I slip up; where did the years go," and so on. Again it took two log-ins to get here. I HATE CHANGES!!!
How about allow them to dissolve? Like memories, thoughts...wouldn't we just allow them to drift away rsther than the act of making them dissolve? Oh, I don't know...just rings better for moi...but you know the drill..LOL, toss the idea if it doesn't fit.
Oh geez, I gotta make a point to log on PW ...been way too long!