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Wed Aug-06-08 06:32 AM
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| The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Wed 8/6/2008) |
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Face to Face
In February living stood still.
The birds flew unwillingly and the mind
chafed against the landscape as a boat
chafes against the bridge it lies moored to.
The trees stood with their backs turned toward me.
The deep snow was measured with dead straws.
The footprints grew old out on the crust.
Under a tarpaulin language pined.
One day something came forward to the window.
Dropping my work I looked up.
The colors flared. Everything turned around.
The earth and I sprang towards each other.
Tomas Tranströmer
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Wed Aug-06-08 07:18 AM
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The trees stood with their backs turned toward me.
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Oh, nice...
I love the imagery, the way the words play together...
And the ending is dynamite!
Thank you...
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the month that makes my heart yearn for August.
August...
the month that makes me yearn for a cold
MARGARITA!!!
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Wed Aug-06-08 05:13 PM
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And makes me dread the passage of time even more. It's funny how so many can feel the same way. For different reasons.
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