The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Thu 1/11/2007)

[RetroLounge]

The Abduction

Some things I do not profess
to understand, perhaps
not wanting to, including
whatever it was they did
with you or you with them
that timeless summer day
when you stumbled out of the wood,
distracted, with your white blouse torn
and a bloodstain on your skirt.
"Do you believe?" you asked.
Between us, through the years,
we pieced enough together
to make the story real:
how you encountered on the path
a pack of sleek, grey hounds,
trailed by a dumbshow retinue
in leather shrouds; and how
you were led, through leafy ways,
into the presence of a royal stag,
flaming in his chestnut coat,
who kneeled on a swale of moss
before you; and how you were borne
aloft in triumph through the green,
stretched on his rack of budding horn,
till suddenly you found yourself alone
in a trampled clearing.

That was a long time ago,
almost another age, but even now,
when I hold you in my arms,
I wonder where you are.
Sometimes I wake to hear
the engines of the night thrumming
outside the east bay window
on the lawn spreading to the rose garden.
You lie beside me in elegant repose,
a hint of transport hovering on your lips,
indifferent to the harsh green flares
that swivel through the room,
searchlights controlled by unseen hands.
Out there is a childhood country,
bleached faces peering in
with coals for eyes.
Our lives are spinning out
from world to world;
the shapes of things
are shifting in the wind.
What do we know
beyond the rapture and the dread?

Stanley Kunitz

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RL

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[BarenakedLady]

1. ....

That was disturbing.

Where is the e.e. cummings sexy poem I asked for? I don't need anymore sadness. :(

Thanks for posting these everyday. I always look forward to reading them. :hug:

[RetroLounge]

7. Patience my dear, patience...

Sometimes waiting for the Cummings is well worth it...

:hug:

rl

[BarenakedLady]

18. I will not make smart ass comment

re: "Sometimes waiting for the Cummings is well worth it"

Nope....I'll behave...



O8)

[RetroLounge]

20. Behave? Why start now?

:rofl:

:hi:

RL

[xchrom]

2. if you don't already know about this --

http://www.poetrysociety.org.uk/content/homepage/

you may find some interest in it.

Tamara Fulcher
In Passing
We say a lot about
what we should have said.

Paper flies between us;
I choose you flowers, and
you tell me you’re a man. 

My reply is sensibility,
sometimes feeling like an
avocado pear – 

stoned. Two takes
of my hand; the press
on your mouth; the well
of your fist; our mutual
moving away.

[RetroLounge]

11. Thanks

Nice poem...

RL

[FedUpWithIt All]

3. ...

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

6. ...

:hug:

RL

[cwydro]

4. This one not so much...

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Retro...........

This is very obscure to me.....

Strange, disturbing images........

All questions, no answers.....

And yet, I like it....

Thank you........:hug:

[RetroLounge]

10. ...

:hug:

:hi:

RL

[SPKrazy]

8. National Day Of Depression?

this poem
sad songs
etc.

good poem though, just disturbing images and well, melancholy

:-(

thanks

:pals:

[RetroLounge]

9. ...

:pals:

RL

[FedUpWithIt All]

12. I didn't see this. I am so backwards...;)

I saw the ugly reality being transformed into something beautiful through the support of a loved one.

***Between us, through the years,
we pieced enough together
to make the story real:

***and how
you were led, through leafy ways,
into the presence of a royal stag,
flaming in his chestnut coat,
who kneeled on a swale of moss
before you; and how you were borne
aloft in triumph through the green,


It reminded me of last nights thread.

I hope you are well SPK :hug:

[SPKrazy]

13. Thanks For A Reframe

prolly just my frame of mind today

:hug:

[FedUpWithIt All]

15. ...

:hug:

[BarenakedLady]

14. I saw that as well

But it still disturbed me. Past memories rather forgotten got in the way, I guess. :hi:

[FedUpWithIt All]

16. I understand...

Tough to get them out of the way sometimes. :hug:

I myself had quite a morning. Cried like a baby.

[BarenakedLady]

17. I'm so sorry

Everything ok? :hug:

[FedUpWithIt All]

19. Yes and thank you...

i broke down. Feel better now. :)

:loveya:

[RetroLounge]

21. ...

:hug:

RL

[FedUpWithIt All]

23. :::hugs to you RL::: Thank you.

[BarenakedLady]

22. We all need that release

once in awhile. I'm glad you are feeling better.

:hug:

[FedUpWithIt All]

25. Yes...

It always looks a little brighter after a good solid cry fest. :D

:hug:

[wildhorses]

24. sometimes the past is best viewed through

rose coloured glasses
a moment's fleeting glance
our partner in this dance

we know not each other
just a mirror of another
reflected through a prism

the pool of time...