The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Wed 3/28/2007)

[RetroLounge]

San Francisco Night Windows

So hangs the hour like fruit fullblown and sweet,
Our strict and desperate avatar,
Despite that antique westward gulls lament
Over enormous waters which retreat
Weary unto the white and sensual star.
Accept these images for what they are--
Out of the past a fragile element
Of substance into accident.
I would speak honestly and of a full heart;
I would speak surely for the tale is short,
And the soul's remorseless catalogue
Assumes its quick and piteous sum.
Think you, hungry is the city in the fog
Where now the darkened piles resume
Their framed and frozen prayer
Articulate and shafted in the stone
Against the void and absolute air.
If so the frantic breath could be forgiven,
And the deep blood subdued before it is gone
In a savage paternoster to the stone,
Then might we all be shriven.

Robert Penn Warren

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RL

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[BarenakedLady]

1. Good morning, RL!

:hi: :hug:

I liked the imagery in this one. Someday I'd love to visit SF.

[RetroLounge]

2. It's a beautiful city

spent a long week there once and did not want to leave. ever.

:hi:

RL

[wildhorses]

3. very nice!! and i especially like these lines:

Out of the past a fragile element
Of substance into accident.

posted in honor of san francisco:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o66f0lQOoBI

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear Retro!

I see the City I love in glimpses here......

Especially in these lines:

Think you, hungry is the city in the fog
Where now the darkened piles resume
Their framed and frozen prayer
Articulate and shafted in the stone
Against the void and absolute air.

Very mysterious and beautiful, just like San Francisco......

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

[RetroLounge]

5. "Very mysterious and beautiful, just like San Francisco"

Agreed!

:hug:

RL