The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Thu 3/23/06)

[RetroLounge]

The Second Coming

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again; but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?

William Butler Yeats

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RL

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[wildhorses]

1. who was it that asked for Yeats the other day? I wonder if this is

what they had in mind?


by the way:
we were talking about the maybach at work last night and I mentioned that the fact Daimler-Chrysler is producing it again is just another sign that the end is near...I was half-joking and everyone sorta snickered,,, except for the doc, he laughed the loudest (him and me are on the same wavelength so to speak)somehow it is an uneasy comfort to see this poem today



http://www.maybachusa.com/

[RetroLounge]

6. Lots of Yeats is longer too

Not sure of the lounge attention span, but I may post a few of his longer ones in the future...

RL

[AirmensMom]

2. Thank you for the Daily Poem Thread, RetroLounge.

And for today's selection.

:yourock:

[RetroLounge]

7. You are quite welcome!

:hi:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

3. Yeats

makes me smile. Thank you. :hi:

[RetroLounge]

5. and it is a nice smile too...

:hi:

RL

[El Fuego]

4. One of my favorites

Thanks for posting it!

[RetroLounge]

8. One of my favorites also

I remember seeing a few lines referenced once in a Peanuts Comic. Cracked me up...

RL

[RetroLounge]

9. Afternoon Kick

:kick:

RL