BlueIris
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Thu Dec-20-07 03:17 PM
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The BlueIris Semi-Nightly Poetry Break, 12/20/07 |
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Edited on Thu Dec-20-07 03:18 PM by BlueIris
"Divorce"
As we slow dance into indifference I dream you divorce me. We divide the children a bloodless slicing.
Beds, sofas and chairs are sucked out of the windows and we are left with our books. I choose the Thesaurus
you take Camus. I take Shakespeare you Dickens and shelf by shelf book by book, our lives empty.
The anesthetic of long division continues till I wake you are there I don't understand why.
—Helen Padway
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Thu Dec-20-07 03:18 PM
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To be disenchanted with the world, is to know it for the first time. A moment of imperfect epiphany, a recollection of what has always been, yet is no more.
To be enchanted with the world, is to swim between its waves, drowning under every crest, yet still coming up for air.
To be outside the world yet still within it, that my love, is another world , which may save this one.
~UnderTheOcean
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Thu Dec-20-07 03:19 PM
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A speck in her eyes he lies, A drop between her thighs .
Her womb , a God's abode, he suckles, point of light, Christ's first plight.
Her hair , his coffin, within its waves he drowns, for our father who is in heaven.
On her nipples , a phallic cross he does erect, For he does not want to resurrect, just dissolve into the milky wells, into that beating heart, to rest between its ripples.
~UnderTheOcean
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Thu Dec-20-07 03:21 PM
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3. One by Moshe bin Aroch : "Upon hearing that Mahmoud Darwish was ill" |
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and I hear that you are in a hospital near Paris and I hear that you are very ill and I feel my hair chilling and I say no I cant write a poem about Darwish he is my enemy but I know He is not my enemy I am just afraid of what the others will say It's one thing to say that Darwish is the best Israeli poet just to see their half smiles saying that I am crazy and another to write about you and I have loved you poems you, like me, an exile in the world when the world is all exile when the words are all aliens and I loved when you said in an interview that had you known your poems would be translated to so many European languages you would have written them differently with less symbolism and clearer I loved you when you said that a poet has to write his poems clear I loved when you wrote about El Andalus and making love in the afternoon. May god be with you, Mahmoud, my friend not my enemy my fighter with words stronger than weapons may Allah be your healer may you live many years to come and may you rest when the time has come in the gardens of Eden.
by Moshe ben Aroch
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BlueIris
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Thu Dec-20-07 03:47 PM
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7. I LOVE Moshe bin Aroch! |
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Thu Dec-20-07 03:53 PM
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what is your favourite by him ?
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Thu Dec-20-07 03:24 PM
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Thu Dec-20-07 03:30 PM
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How lovely!
The puzzle of divorce, and some of its pain...
Graceful, and lovely...
Thank you!
:hug:
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Thu Dec-20-07 03:46 PM
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I thought this one would be declared "too dark" for you.
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Thu Dec-20-07 03:50 PM
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I never know what will strike me as dark...
This one certainly is not...
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Thu Dec-20-07 04:13 PM
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10. "Growing Up" by William Stafford |
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One of my wings beat faster, I couldn't help it-- the one away from the light.
It hurt to be told all the time how I loved that terrible flame.
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Thu Dec-20-07 04:29 PM
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We love our William Stafford here.
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Thu Dec-20-07 04:39 PM
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12. Really? I'm pleased to hear that... |
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...Because most people I know have never heard of him. I might never have myself, except that my late mom was a Stafford fan, and she gave me one of his books "Stories That Could Be True," for Christmas one year (1984, to be exact). Here's what she wrote on the inside cover: "To Josh-- That you may share in our love for this very fine 'minor' poet (whatever that is)---Mom and Dad"
Indeed, it's a book I treasure to this day.
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Thu Dec-20-07 09:57 PM
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Fri Dec-21-07 12:13 AM
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As we slow dance into indifference I dream you divorce me.
RL
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Fri Dec-21-07 01:43 AM
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15. Yeah. Pretty harsh. nt |
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