BlueIris
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Fri Feb-15-08 10:45 AM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 2/15/08 |
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Edited on Fri Feb-15-08 10:48 AM by BlueIris
"In an Old House"
In an old house with many fireplaces That my father took me long ago to visit, A stairway from the first floor to the third Slanted, dark, inwalled without a landing. Nothing else charmed me like that climbable closet Built, I thought, for one who would have explored The shuddery penetralia of caves. "For servants," they told me, after all my guesses, Who crept between the scrubbing and the mending And had a story left out of their lives.
—Spencer Brown
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Fri Feb-15-08 10:48 AM
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in the darkness. Bless you, BlueIris.
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Fri Feb-15-08 10:52 AM
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I try.
Picking out good poems for this environment is tough, though. Loungers' taste in poetry is so different from mine.
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Fri Feb-15-08 03:30 PM
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6. Yet I know in advance that your choice... |
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...will be the perfect one, for that moment. And it always is.
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Fri Feb-15-08 03:40 PM
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7. You flatter me. I think I've "blown it" WRT reading the Lounge "mood" a couple of times. |
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Fri Feb-15-08 04:25 PM
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8. I hope you keep feeling it's worth the risk. |
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Fri Feb-15-08 12:26 PM
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I've seen those staircases, and they are scary...
This is the perfect poem for capturing their reality...
Thank you!
:hi:
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