The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 2/14/2009)

[RetroLounge]

Advance Requiem for a Lovely Couple

So Beauty's gone under the knife again,
For a chin lift and an alabaster brow;
And Truth, who can't stop confessing
Everything to everyone, has taken another
Name in the witness protection program.

Who would recognize them now, Anonymous
And his soulmate? Maybe, with her new look,
She'd like a new name, too, something tan enough
For a swimsuit, like Melanie, or as pale as
Blanche, all parasols and moonlit lace.

Cramped in their dim suburban home, afraid
To stroll around the neighborhood, Alias goes only
Deeper into himself, where his thoughts line up
Like retired folk at a buffet diner, as if it's
All You Need to Know Night in the brain.

It's a cold and lonely life, quiet to the end,
When the organ pipes will play low hymns
No one but churchmice and poets can hear,
As soft as two palmfuls of ash poured inside
A small urn, old and Greek and overwrought.

Elton Glaser

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:hi:

RL

[BlueIris]

1. Ooooh. I like this one.

It's so stealthy in its seriousness.

[RetroLounge]

4. Happy VD day my poetry friend!

:hug:

RL

[Justpat]

2. "...low hymns no one but churchmice and poets can hear"

wish I could write like that.

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3. Yeah, me too.

Welcome to the poetry thread.

:hug:

RL

[RetroLounge]

5. kick

:hi:

RL

[Xipe Totec]

6. under the knife again...

Reminded me of this poem:

Love, love
that here lies is wounded.
So wounded by love's going;
so wounded,
dying of love.
Tell every one that it was just
the nightingale.
A surgeon's knife with four sharp edges;
a broken throat - oblivion.
Take me by the hands, my love,
for I come quite badly wounded,
so wounded by love's going.
So wounded.
Dying of love!

(from The Love of Don Perimplin, 1928)

- Federico Garcia Lorca

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yaPEkSRf6Vg

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7. ...

:hi:

RL