The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 2/17/10

[BlueIris]

"'Mystery Boy' Looks for Kin in Nashville"

Puzzle faces in the dying elms
promise him treats if he will stay.
Sometimes they hiss and spit at him
like varmints caught
in a thicket of butterflies.

A black doll,
one disremembered time,
came floating down to him
through mimosa's fancy work leaves and blooms
to be his hidden bride.

From the road beyond the creepered walls
they call to him now and then,
and he'll take off in spite of the angry trees,
hearing like the loudening of his heart
the name he never can he never can repeat.

And when he gets to where the voices were--
Don't cry, his dollbaby wife implores;
I know where they are, don't cry.
We'll go and find them, we'll go
and ask them for your name again.

--Robert Hayden

[BlueIris]

1. Kick.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. like this one

:donut:

[BlueIris]

3. It...resonates with me right now. nt

[MiddleFingerMom]

4. Gothic poetry

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Good choice again.
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What some take half a novel to say, poets can get across in four stanzas.
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Thank you for this.
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[BlueIris]

5. Nice icon, by the way. nt

[MiddleFingerMom]

6. That was a happy accident...

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I picked it because it was kinda goofy... then when I started using it, I realized
that it looks like it's speaking my text.
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Earnestly.
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