The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Tue 5/30/06)

[RetroLounge]

End of April

Under a cherry tree
I found a robin’s egg,
broken, but not shattered.

I had been thinking of you,
and was kneeling in the grass
among fallen blossoms

when I saw it: a blue scrap,
a delicate toy, as light
as confetti

It didn’t seem real,
but nature will do such things
from time to time.

I looked inside:
it was glistening, hollow,
a perfect shell

except for the missing crown,
which made it possible
to look inside.

What had been there
is gone now
and lives in my heart

where, periodically,
it opens up its wings,
tearing me apart.

Phillis Levin

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Phillis Levin lives in New York City and teaches creative writing at Hofstra University.

Her three poetry collections, which deal effectively with the everyday, are called Temples and Fields (1988), The Afterimage (1995) and Mercury (2001). They have all been highly praised and the first even won the Norma Farber First Book Award. Her poems have also appeared in The New Yorker, The Nation, and the New Republic.

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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

[miss_american_pie]

1. Oh that's nice

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

3. Thanks

She has some really nice poems out there...

RL

[Callalily]

2. How lovely RL

What had been there
is gone now
and lives in my heart

Hopefully it's the fond memories that live on in our hearts.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear RetroLounge.......

How delicate.....and lovely too....

Thank you


:hug:

[aaronbees]

5. Lovely and elegant

Love that last line ... I'll have to search for her poems now. :)

[yvr girl]

6. That's so pretty...and melancholy

:hug: