The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 12/10/06)

[RetroLounge]

You Can't Start The Spiritual Journey Until You Have A Broken Heart

Take the edge of the past,
not the whole
just the edge,
the way the art teacher
said You Blink Too Much,
the way the English teacher said
Your Father Must Have Written This-
It's Too Good . . .
This must be why
God started talking to me
in my own voice with
thoughts of
consequence and
ideas I never knew,
in my own voice,
even though I thought
a better one surely
should be found,
and certainly could be found-
It sounded at first
like a fiery sun
and a silk moon
spinning through me,
in tongues
and languages
I finally understood
but fast- so fast-
by the time I got the pen
it was gone.

Grace Cavalieri

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Grace Cavalieri is the author of eleven books of poetry. Her plays include off-Broadway productions. She's also written texts and lyrics performed for opera, television and film; she is adapting her latest book, Pinecrest Rest Haven, for stage. Grace teaches poetry workshops throughout the country at numerous colleges. She produced and hosted "The Poet and the Poem," weekly, on WPFW-FM (1977-1997) presenting 2,000 poets to the nation. She now presents this series once a year from the Library of Congress via NPR satellite.

Grace has received the Pen-Fiction Award, the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Award, The Corporation for Public Broadcasting Silver Medal, and awards from the National Commission on Working Women, the WV Commission on Women, the American Association of University Women, plus others. She received the inaugural Columbia Merit Award for "significant contributions to poetry."

She writes full-time in Annapolis, Maryland where she lives with her husband, sculptor Kenneth Flynn. They have four grown daughters.

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RL

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[wildhorses]

1. ---

I finally understood
but fast- so fast-
by the time I got the pen
it was gone.


i HATE it when that happens :hi:

[BarenakedLady]

2. Always happens.

Sucks.

[wildhorses]

3. totally

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

5. ...

It sounded at first
like a fiery sun
and a silk moon
spinning through me,
in tongues

Inspiration comes on like that sometimes...

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. Good morning, my dear Retro...........

Wow, this is a good one........

She just plunges headlong into her thoughts, and I cannot keep up with her...

Until the end........

I've been there too (what poet hasn't?).......

Thank you.......:hug: