The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 3/31/2007)

[RetroLounge]

Despair

Sadness. The moist gray shawls of drifting sea-fog,
Salting scrub pine, drenching the cranberry bogs,
Erasing all but foreground, making a ghost
Of anyone who walks softly away;
And the faint, penitent psalmody of the ocean.

Gloom. It appears among the winter mountains
On rainy days. Or the tiled walls of the subway
In caged and aging light, in the steel scream
And echoing vault of the departing train,
The vacant platform, the yellow destitute silence.

But despair is another matter. Midafternoon
Washes the worn bank of a dry arroyo,
Its ocher crevices, unrelieved rusts,
Where a startled lizard pauses, nervous, exposed
To the full glare of relentless marigold sunshine.

Anthony Hecht

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[Callalily]

1. Oh my!

I can feel the hopelessness, the gloom. :cry:

[wildhorses]

2. ahhh yes

i know the landscape of sadness
and the geography of gloom
this i know very very well

but, this despair
this place i only
thought i knew

til now...

somehow

i think i must visit this despair

like this one very much:thumbsup:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Retro........

How I wish I could write like this.....

This is so evocative...so beautiful too...

I have a long way to go before I can do anything even close to this...

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