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Fri Dec-30-05 10:53 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Fri 12/30/05) |
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Act of Union I
To-night, a first movement, a pulse, As if the rain in bogland gathered head To slip and flood: a bog-burst, A gash breaking open the ferny bed. Your back is a firm line of eastern coast And arms and legs are thrown Beyond your gradual hills. I caress The heaving province where our past has grown. I am the tall kingdom over your shoulder That you would neither cajole nor ignore. Conquest is a lie. I grow older Conceding your half-independant shore Within whose borders now my legacy Culminates inexorably.
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And I am still imperially Male, leaving you with pain, The rending process in the colony, The battering ram, the boom burst from within. The act sprouted an obsinate fifth column Whose stance is growing unilateral. His heart beneath your heart is a wardrum Mustering force. His parasitical And ignmorant little fists already Beat at your borders and I know they're cocked At me across the water. No treaty I foresee will salve completely your tracked And stretchmarked body, the big pain That leaves you raw, like opened ground, again
Seamus Heaney *****************************************
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Fri Dec-30-05 11:01 AM
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Nice to have such good hot stuff on a cold day!
Hey, sweetie - I'll be driving thru your area today. When you suddenly get all flushed, hot 'n bothered, I'll be nearby. :loveya:
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Fri Dec-30-05 12:39 PM
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3. I'll be looking forward to catching your vibes |
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as you cruise by...
:hi:
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Fri Dec-30-05 11:16 AM
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You do find some of the most powerful works.
Thank you ~ RL
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Fri Dec-30-05 12:39 PM
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and good morning to you!
:hi:
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Fri Dec-30-05 01:02 PM
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5. This is powerful stuff, my dear RetroLounge..... |
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From the male point of view....most interesting to me.
I GET it...and thank you......
Beautiful and powerful...
:loveya: :hug:
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Fri Dec-30-05 02:43 PM
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