The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 11/12/07

[BlueIris]

—from "Gay Chaps at the Bar"

                  piano after war

On a snug evening I shall watch her fingers
Cleverly ringed, declining to clever pink,
Beg glory from the willing keys.  Old hungers
Will break their coffins, rise to eat and thank.
And music, warily, like the golden rose
That sometimes after sunset warms the west,
Will warm that room, persuasively suffuse
That room and me, rejuvenate a past.
But suddenly, across my climbing fever
Of proud delight—a multiplying cry.
A cry of bitter dead men who will never
Attend a gentle maker of musical joy.
Then my thawed eye will go again to ice.
And stone will shove the softness from my face.

—Gwendolyn Brooks

[BlueIris]

1. Gwendolyn Brooks happens to be a genius, I'll have you know.

[BlueIris]

2. Mmmmooooommmm!!! No one's reading my poem threads.

And this poem is so excellent.

[BlueIris]

3. One last kick, before I just give up and acknowledge that...no one liked this poem?

[DarkTirade]

4. Actually I've been so busy I didn't see it until now. :P