The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 3/19/06)

[RetroLounge]

Absence

I visited the place where we last met.
Nothing was changed, the gardens were well-tended,
The fountains sprayed their usual steady jet;
There was no sign that anything had ended
And nothing to instruct me to forget.

The thoughtless birds that shook out of the trees,
Singing an ecstasy I could not share,
Played cunning in my thoughts. Surely in these
Pleasures there could not be a pain to bear
Or any discord shake the level breeze.

It was because the place was just the same
That made your absence seem a savage force,
For under all the gentleness there came
An earthquake tremor: Fountain, birds and grass
Were shaken by my thinking of your name.

Elizabeth Jennings

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RL

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[In_The_Wind]

1. ~

Been there. Done that.
Too many times.

[wildhorses]

2. .....

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i am realizing that this is the second time you have made me cry with one of these threads








i am not sure if it is good for me to read these at this point and time in my life...
i feel like it gives me permission to wallow in self pity even more so than i already do

[RetroLounge]

7. ...

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RL

[miss_american_pie]

3. This ...

There was no sign that anything had ended
And nothing to instruct me to forget.


Just brought back a physical memory. Ouch.

:hi:

[RevCheesehead]

4. Of course, I'm reading this through different eyes...

But, yeah - absence.... and life goes on, whether we want it to or not.

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

:hug:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. Odd how loss can change your personal landscape......

Even as joy can .......

Forward and back, forward and back, goes my heart......

Somedays I heal, and somedays I don't......

Somedays the pain tears at me......

And somedays I am impervious to it.......


Thank you, my dear RetroLounge.....

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