The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poem Thread, 8/23/07

[BlueIris]

"Annie"

I gave her a straw-colored
name. I did want her
from the day she was born. I
knew her eyes would be
like darting bees, her hands like
perfect shells, cupped
to hold the small pearls of her
fingers. Her pink neck
would smell like blooming stock
and holding her would
be like kneeling down to pray.
Annie, who is
almost twelve, is bony-kneed,
lank as wheat, like I
was at that age. She’s someone
else's daughter, somewhere.
Nebraska? Maybe. She can
shoot a basket, catch
a frog. She knows how to hoe,
and she wins races
barefoot. And when she sits out
in their backyard swing
at dusk, letting her chocolate
ice cream melt, the gray
corn talks to her, bending past
the boundary of lawn
and field, slyly telling her
the other story of her life.

—Pat Daneman

[BlueIris]

1. Okay, if people don't like *this* poem of all poems, I will cry.

CRY.

[BlueIris]

2. Kick.

[BlueIris]

3. Kick.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

4. My dear BlueIris!

I am here to tell you that I LOVE this poem!

Just beautiful...

Thank you so much, sweetie... :hug:

[BlueIris]

5. Ah, my loyal C-Peg.

I thought we might do better with (slightly) lighter selections than what I've been posting.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

6. I think that's a very good idea...

And this really fits the bill, too...:hug:

[ismnotwasm]

7. Ok, now THAT almost made me cry

And I'm not a crying gal.

[BlueIris]

8. Good poetry can be very cathartic.

[Callalily]

9. Very nice choice

BlueIris. What mother has not felt this way;

and holding her would
be like kneeling down to pray.

[BlueIris]

10. Yeah.

[wildhorses]

11. the last sentence is as perfect as any poetry ---

'... And when she sits out
in their backyard swing
at dusk, letting her chocolate
ice cream melt, the gray
corn talks to her, bending past
the boundary of lawn
and field, slyly telling her
the other story of her life.'

that is sublime, thanks :)

[BlueIris]

12. Yep; good stuff.

[ThomCat]

13. This is very beautiful

It seems like it should be very sad too, but somehow it isn't.

[BlueIris]

14. I don't get a feeling of "sadness" from it either.

[BlueIris]

15. Kick.

[I Have A Dream]

16. Very sweet. Thanks, BI! n/t