The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Mon 2/27/06)

[RetroLounge]

Divorce

I have killed our lives together,
axed off each head,
with their poor blue eyes stuck in a beach ball
rolling separately down the drive.
I have killed all the good things,
but they are too stubborn for me.
They hang on.
The little words of companionship
have crawled into their graves,
the thread of compassion,
dear as a strawberry,
the mingling of bodies
that bore two daughters within us,
the look of you dressing,
early,
all the separate clothes, neat and folded,
you sitting on the edge of the bed
polishing your shoes with boot black,
and I loved you then, so wise from the shower,
and I loved you many other times
and I have been for months,
trying to drown it,
to push it under,
to keep its great red tongue
under like a fish,
but whenever I look they are on fire,
the bass, the bluefish, the wall-eyed flounder
blazing among the kelp and seaweed
like many suns battering up the waves
and my love stays bitterly glowing,
spasm of it will not sleep,
and I am helpless and thirsty and need shade
but there is no one to cover me -
not even God.

Anne Sexton

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RL

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[lizziegrace]

1. RL

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

8. Thanks

:hug:

RL

[Heidi]

2. I love these threads, RL.

Here's one for you: "Hallelujah," the Leonard Cohen poem on which he based the song of the same name:

[RetroLounge]

9. Great!

I love that song...

RL

[xchrom]

3. oh joy oh joy -- it's monday.

it's stormy, stormy, stormy here today.

worthy of anne sexton.

[RetroLounge]

11. Hmm, Stormy and Sexton

Yes, a good combination...

:hi:

RL

[In_The_Wind]

4. Hey RL.

It gets better. :loveya:

[RetroLounge]

12. Thanks sweetie...

I need a hug tonight. Had a pretty sad afternoon...

RL

[In_The_Wind]

24. I hope you have a much better evening!

This is one of my hibiscus blooms from 2005.

When summer comes again it's just like the rose:
www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x3984227#3984403

When the night has been too lonely
and the road has been to long,
and you think that love is only
for the lucky and the strong,
just remember in the winter
far beneath the bitter snows
lies the seed that with the sun's love
in the spring becomes the rose.

Like winter's cold grasp on our body this sadness in our hearts will also pass as we enjoy the warmth of Springtime. :loveya:

[wildhorses]

5. one day maybe I will see a poem with just a ray of hope

come shining through...
my heart aches for you
knowing there is nothing I can do



maybe one day

[RetroLounge]

7. maybe one day

:hug:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

6. ...

Divorce
by Jack Gilbert

Woke up suddenly thinking I heard crying.
Rushed through the dark house.
Stopped, remembering. Stood looking
out at bright moonlight on concrete.


:hug:

[RetroLounge]

13. ...

:cry:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

15. Oh sheesh

I didn't mean to make you cry. Want me to PM you a sex poem? ;)

[RetroLounge]

16. No interest in sex at the moment...

but thanks...

RL

[miss_american_pie]

17. ...

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

18. Hugs are good. Thanks.

Cuddling, hugs and tears seem to be the only thing I need these days...

RL

[miss_american_pie]

19. Are your kids still cuddly?

I forget at what age that stops.

Crying is good, and so is writing...

[RetroLounge]

20. Kids are still a little cuddly

Been writing a bunch, crying some.

Just sad. Sadness doesn't kill, it just feels that way...

Think I'll go hug the kids again.

RL

[miss_american_pie]

21. Good idea.

I remembering an overwhelming almost physical sensation of falling until I hit bottom.

:hug: :hug: :hug:

[RetroLounge]

22. Yeah, that's a good description...

physical sensation of falling and not being able to stop the fall...

:hug:

RL

[miss_american_pie]

23. Made numbness welcome

but it was freeing in a way, too.

[RetroLounge]

25. I welcome numb...

RL

[SeattleGirl]

10. Thank you, RL

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

14. ...

:hug:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

26. My dear RetroLounge....

Anne Sexton writes so damn well.......

She has really hit this one accurately.

Even I, who have never been divorced, can feel the pain so very vividly here...

And for you, it must be horrifying.

All I can give are these poor words, and this: :hug: