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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 08:48 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Tue 1/9/2007)
Full Moon

All over the city
something gets into people.
Women tucking in their kids
close their eyes, think of men
they should have followed off buses.
Girls rouge their cheeks with lipstick,
their bodies telling lies
to anyone who'll listen.
Cars with their lights off glide
under the trees, headed for the ocean.
The men going through garbage cans
rifle Burger King bags for a few
pale fries. They lie down
in doorways. In dreams, their mothers
check their foreheads for fever.
Refugees sit up
studying old photographs they enter
like water, going under.
Moon, take them down.
Desire is a cold drink
that scalds the heart.
Somewhere women are standing
at their windows, like lit candles,
and boys in Army boots
go dancing through the streets,
singing, and shoot
at anything that moves.

Kim Addonizio

***************

RL

If you have a request for a certain Poet, post their name in the thread and I will find a poem by them and post it...

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

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Haole Girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 09:55 AM
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1. "Desire is a cold drink that scalds the heart..."
:cry:
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 02:29 PM
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2. That's the line that got me too.
:cry:

:hug:
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BarenakedLady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 02:30 PM
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3. That was sad...
:(

If you have any e.e. cummings, I could sure use some of his stuff. One of the sexy ones. LoL.
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cwydro Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 03:21 PM
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4. Good one.
I like this one.
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 03:22 PM
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5. My dear Retro...........
I'd say Kim knows whereof she speaks.....

This is wonderful, and heartbreaking, the way lust usually is.......

Thank you.......:hug:
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wildhorses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jan-09-07 03:22 PM
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6. its sad but, for some reason its hopeful, too--why is that?
i'm not sure but, i love the full moon.

i think it has something to do with the fact that she shows how it shines down on all of us.

and causes us to think and do things we wouldn't normally do.

and the way it ends...KA-POW

it really socks it to ya!!!


me likey:thumbsup:
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