BlueIris
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Fri Aug-24-07 10:23 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poem Thread, 8/24/07 Bonus |
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Edited on Fri Aug-24-07 10:26 PM by BlueIris
"On Apples"
One is not hale until one inhales The russet of these apples— Their rosy smell... As from cleft hearts here rises The green Veridical stem.
Thus in Cézanne one sees The stillness of utter rest: an electric calm Of placement; the apple transcendent— Flat: cool: the virtual assumed As real.
Anne once refused to have And apple; yet she held it And sat there like another, or the first Eve, who again rejected Pleasure for the pleasure of a cusp, Self-worried; the famous prerogative Of feminine indecision...
The apple need not be eaten; must be had. I recall at the end of the road, where rampant boys lived, Green apples on the ground, ant-laden, brown, abscessed— We'd chuck them at each other, or at trees. Hit in the ribs, it hurt. Ted Mingo showed me.
And sometimes near Cooper Union, peddlers buff Pippins upon their rusty Winter sleeves; Reset each polished crimson On their cart.
McIntosh are best Unpeeled, for rosy applesauce, For eating, as for fragrance...Try them— But first you must smell them.
—David Ross
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wildhorses
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Fri Aug-24-07 10:26 PM
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1. the apple is what started all this mess, right? |
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;)
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nice pick :loveya:
:hi:
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BlueIris
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Fri Aug-24-07 10:27 PM
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2. Thanks! And I didn't even think of how...appropriate this one is for DU right now. |
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I picked these out weeks ago. I have most of the poem selections picked through the month of September, actually. I'm trying to have the whole year complete before the business of fall really starts.
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Fri Aug-24-07 10:30 PM
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3. McIntosh are indead great for applesauce, |
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but not alone. You need some Cortlands in there there too.
I'm not very caught up in this one, but I like the subject. :)
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Fri Aug-24-07 11:54 PM
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4. Yeah, I wanted to give people some "fun" poems that didn't boggle their minds. |
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For a couple of days, anyway. Be sure to check back in tomorrow!
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