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Fri 6 Aug, 2004 05:36 pm
Unable to act,
Watching that small inner tube float on the surf.
Looking straight out toward the horizon
And thinking nothing.
Wondering if I can cope with your not being,
And my not seeing,
And then your small form appeared
And all I could do was clasp you gratefully
While my sister said angry words.
You're still here,
And all the fear was vanquished
In a crystal moment.
for gentle Beth
thank you, fortune. I never see your handle that I don't think of Juliet's words "....hie to high fortune." <smile>
Do you suppose that there are really any star-crossed lovers in this world? Or was it all just Shakespeare's wistful thinking--his dark lady...
I confess to not being a poetry buff, but your poem really resonated with me, Letty.
That weird, complex moment of panic where you think "nothing" but wonder how you will continue to exist, thinking everything.
boomer, I think that you just waxed poetic. Love your response, my friend, and your photographs in the gallery.
I'm a die-hard romantic, Letty. I think the notion of star crossed lovers is just too captivating to try to reason it away.
ah, edgar. It's been a while, hasn't it. boomer made me think of the picture that I have of my daughter...six months old...small arm behind her head...tiny dimple in her left cheek...candid...but with a look of uncertain origin in those eyes.
Well, Fortune, as much as we try to find logic and reasoning in philosophy, it always returns to the unexplainable...
Thank you letty!
Poets amaze me. Its like distilling thought down to its essentials.
To me:
Novels are big, sweeping things.
Short stories are novels reduced to their essential ideas.
Poems are the emotions left over, the things that really matter.
If only we could all learn to be so specific..... and enigmatic.
boomer, I learned that long ago...the mystery and the real..the compression and the expansion. Remember our exchange with Morganwood as he mowed? He's back and writing..as beautiful and as profound..and as real as always.
Thanks for the tip, Letty. I'll keep an eye out for Morganwood. I always found his stories so relaxing.
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