The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Fri 12/2/05)

[RetroLounge]

Man and Wife

Tamed by Miltown, we lie on Mother's bed;
the rising sun in war paint dyes us red;
in broad daylight her gilded bed-posts shine,
abandoned, almost Dionysian.
At last the trees are green on Marlborough Street,
blossoms on our magnolia ignite
the morning with their murderous five day's white.
All night I've held your hand,
as if you had
a fourth time faced the kingdom of the mad -
its hackneyed speech, its homicidal eye -
and dragged me home alive. . . . Oh my Petite,
clearest of all God's creatures, still all air and nerve:
you were in your twenties, and I,
once hand on glass
and heart in mouth,
outdrank the Rahvs in the heat
of Greenwich Village, fainting at your feet -
too boiled and shy
and poker-faced to make a pass,
while the shrill verve
of your invective scorched the traditional South.

Now twelve years later, you turn your back.
Sleepless, you hold
your pillow to your hollows like a child,
your old-fashioned tirade -
loving, rapid, merciless -
breaks like the Atlantic Ocean on my head.

Robert Lowell

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enjoy,

RL

[In_The_Wind]

1. ~

[RevCheesehead]

2. enjoy?

uh-uh... that's not the word.
:evilfrown:

[RetroLounge]

3. And the word would be?

ponder?

RL

[RevCheesehead]

4. bittersweet.

RC

[RetroLounge]

5. Yeah, that would work too.

:sigh:

RL

[RevCheesehead]

6. We need a sighing smiley...

for so many reasons.

(I gotta run to GB now - will you be around later this afternoon? or tonight?)

:*

[RevCheesehead]

7. Here's something to make you smile...

if not LOL.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=4385580&mesg_id=4385580

[RetroLounge]

8. Afternoon kick

:kick:

:hi:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear RetroLounge....

Yes, I believe the good Rev is correct...bittersweet is the word for today's poem....

A marriage grown old and a little sad too. Losses and regrets abound here....

Perhaps missed opportunities as well......

Nonetheless, this is beautiful if sad at the same time.....

Thank you.....as always!

:loveya: :hug:

[KitchenWitch]

10. melancholy

:hi: