The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 3/25/06)

[RetroLounge]

Stillborn

These poems do not live: it's a sad diagnosis.
They grew their toes and fingers well enough,
Their little foreheads bulged with concentration.
If they missed out on walking about like people
It wasn't for any lack of mother-love.

O I cannot explain what happened to them!
They are proper in shape and number and every part.
They sit so nicely in the pickling fluid!
They smile and smile and smile at me.
And still the lungs won't fill and the heart won't start.

They are not pigs, they are not even fish,
Though they have a piggy and a fishy air --
It would be better if they were alive, and that's what they were.
But they are dead, and their mother near dead with distraction,
And they stupidly stare and do not speak of her.

Sylvia Plath

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RL

if you want to see some of my poetry, see the blog at:
http://www.myspace.com/retropaul

[miss_american_pie]

1. Been there, tired of doing that

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

2. Hello!

:hi:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

3. How are you today?

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

4. Fine, thanks

Got up early and went to an SBA loan seminar. Good amount of info to digest.

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear RetroLounge!

Is she talking about poems........

Or fetuses?

Hard to tell!

She was soooo talented, and also weird, IMHO......

Interesting poem!

I thank you......

:wtf: :loveya: :hug:

[RetroLounge]

6. Maybe both

:shrug:

RL

[djeseru]

7. Mmm, some tasty Plath.

"...and their mother near dead with distraction..."

My role-model Electra. Thanks RL! :hi:

[RetroLounge]

8. You're welcome

:hi:

By the way, hot pic in the photo thread!

:D

RL

[djeseru]

11. Just glad you were there to keep an eye on things.

:blush: Yeah, I got a little more attention than an ex-lurker thought possible, but hey, it was a Friday - what the hell, right? :D

[SeattleGirl]

9. Wow, RL, a poem I actually know today!

Nice pick! :hi:

[RetroLounge]

10. Thanks

:hi:

RL

[RetroLounge]

12. Night time kick

:kick:

RL

[wildhorses]

13. did you see her bio-movie starring Gywneth Paltrow?

creating poems as a metaphor for stillborns...well done, Sylvia
:hi:

[RetroLounge]

14. No, I never saw that movie...

She was brilliant, though, wasn't she?

:hi:

RL