has there been a poetry thread for the '07 yet? can this be it?

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My daughter's heavier. Light leaves are flying.
Everywhere in enormous numbers turkeys will be dying
and other birds, all their wings.
They never greatly flew. Did they wish to?
I should know. Off away somewhere once I knew
such things.

Or good Ralph Hodgson back then did, or does.
The man is dead whom Eliot praised. My praise
follows and flows too late.
Fall is grievy, brisk. Tears behind the eyes
almost fall. Fall comes to us as a prize
to rouse us toward our fate.

My house is made of wood and it's made well,
unlike us. My house is older than Henry;
that's fairly old.
If there were a middle ground between things and the soul
or if the sky resembled more the sea,
I wouldn't have to scold
                 my heavy daughter.

- John Berryman

tom west (thomp), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:51 (eighteen years ago)

oh grr. how do you do non-breaking spaces in the submit form?

tom west (thomp), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:52 (eighteen years ago)

  = " ".

Casuistry (Chris P), Friday, 12 January 2007 21:28 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.poems.com/twentler.htm

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 12 January 2007 22:50 (eighteen years ago)

fancy moving 'my heavy daughter' about two inches to the right?

                  i know; i'm a pedant.

tom west (thomp), Saturday, 13 January 2007 03:22 (eighteen years ago)

That's why I posted instead of pasted.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 13 January 2007 17:07 (eighteen years ago)

A link, that is.

Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Saturday, 13 January 2007 17:52 (eighteen years ago)

it'd make things so much easier if i could just give hypertext links to whatever book i happen to be reading.

tom west (thomp), Saturday, 13 January 2007 19:13 (eighteen years ago)

Orange, Doll, Handkercheif

Three years old she left the house
as quietly as a thief
having packed her pram
with her favorite doll
an orange, and a handkerchief

They caught her up at the end of the road
lost but hardly beaten
her doll still snug
her hanky folded
and only the orange eaten.

remybean (bean), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:26 (eighteen years ago)

(that's by Christopher Reid)

remybean (bean), Saturday, 13 January 2007 20:27 (eighteen years ago)

Editeded.

Casuistry (Chris P), Saturday, 13 January 2007 21:48 (eighteen years ago)


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