The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 12/29/2007)

[RetroLounge]

Women in Love

It always comes, and when it comes they know.
To will it is enough to bring them there.
The knack is this, to fasten and not let go.

Their limbs are charmed; they cannot stay or go.
Desire is limbo: they¼re unhappy there.
It always comes, and when it comes they know.

Their choice of hells would be the one they know.
Dante describes it, the wind circling there.
The knack is this, to fasten and not let go.

The wind carries them where they want to go.
Yet it seems cruel to strangers passing there.
It always comes, and when it comes they know
The knack is this, to fasten and not let go.

Donald Justice

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Donald Justice is the author of eight books of poetry, the first five of which are represented in his New and Selected Poems, published in 1995 by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc. His most recent volume is the forthcoming Orpheus Hesitated Beside the Black River, to be published this year in London. He was born in Miami, Florida, in 1925 and earned degrees from the University of Miami (B.A. 1945), where he studied musical composition with Carl Ruggles, the University of North Carolina (M.A. 1947), and the University of Iowa (Ph.D. 1954). He also conducted postgraduate study at Stanford University from 1948-49. Before retiring in 1992, he held teaching positions at The University of Florida, The University of Miami, The University of Iowa, and Syracuse University among other institutions. He died in 2004

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:hi:

RL

[Fire Walk With Me]

1. You're posting poetry in your red union jammies, aren't you.

:hi: ;)

[hisownpetard]

2. A man who posts his poetry thread even while on vacation? Priceless!

And I notice that the little bio is back at the end.
Hmmm.
Someone must've strong-arm'd you into it.

P.S. Love your new red man-lingerie. Can you borrow a pair of stilettos, to jazz it up a bit?:thumbsup: :hi:

[lizziegrace]

3. ...

posting during your "holiday"

;)

[BarenakedLady]

4. "Their choice of hells would be the one they know."