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Sun Feb-10-08 09:37 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 2/10/2008) |
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Psalm to Snake
O snake, you are an argument for poetry:
a shift among dry leaves when there is no wind, a thin line moving through
that which is not time, creating time, a voice from the dead, oblique
and silent. A movement from left to right, a vanishing. Prophet under a stone.
I know you're there even when I can't see you
I see the trail you make in the blank sand, in the morning
I see the point of intersection, the whiplash across the eye. I see the kill.
O long word, cold-blooded and perfect.
Margaret Atwood
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Sun Feb-10-08 12:49 PM
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1. I really like Margaret Atwood and think she has been under-appreciated for her |
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work which I find to be concise and fat-free.
She actually reminds me of Dickinson a lot.
Thanks, RL!!
(Are you feeling all better?)
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Sun Feb-10-08 01:28 PM
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2. I think Dickinson is over-appreciated... |
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and yes, a bit better...
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Sun Feb-10-08 04:06 PM
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3. Ha-hah Me, too! (There are not many of us, either). |
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Sun Feb-10-08 04:13 PM
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Oh, this is nice!
Snakes just lend themselves to this sort of elegant, spare poetry...
D H Lawrence had at least one poem about them too, which I greatly admired...
Just beautiful!
Thank you...
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Sun Feb-10-08 10:52 PM
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6. one of my fav atwood poems! |
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