The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 6/3/07)

[RetroLounge]

The Waiting

I waited for you calmly, with infinite patience.
I waited for you hungrily, just short of desperate.

When you came I knew that desperate was unattractive.
I was calm, no one wants the kind of calm I was.

It tried your patience, it made you hungry for a man
who was hungry. I am that man, I said,

but I said it calmly. My body was an ache, a silence.
It could not affirm how long it had waited for you.

It could not claw or insist or extend its hands.
It was just a stupid body, closed up and voracious.

Stephen Dunn

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RL

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[BarenakedLady]

1. Wow

It sort of reminds me of a conversation I recently had.

Very moving for me right now.

:thumbsup:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Good morning, my dear Retro!

I like this one!

It really speaks to me today.......

I'm waiting too....for what I cannot tell...

Thank you...:hug:

[Inchworm]

3. Very to the point

"It could not affirm how long it had waited for you."

You'd think the meeting would go easier, but I see where this could happen. :)

:thumbsup:

[xchrom]

4. my body can't confirm a lot of things -- but it can confirm that i'm hungry and horny.

[fizzgig]

5. that is really powerful

that balancing act can be so damn hard

[wildhorses]

6. the waiting is the hardest part

thanks rl

:hug:

[SPKrazy]

7. I'm

so feeling that poem

great

[S n o w b a l l]

8. How I do identify with that....

The longing but the inability to open up to it if or when it came.