The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Fri 8/18/06)

[RetroLounge]

This is a Love Poem

My blood
suddenly
knows you are gone

It is shouting your name

It runs
down to the ends of my fingers
looking for you

It wants to be
a piece of red wool
unraveling
all the way to Central America

It wants to be a boat
coming into the harbor at Managua
carrying fruit

Through all the rooms of my body
it is running
opening doors

A child in a tantrum stamps
red shoes
demanding to know where you are

Mary Fell

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RL

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[Callalily]

1. Your poem selections of late

all seen run along the same theme, and I'm sensing things are going well in your life, and for that I'm glad.

Thanks for this poem, it's truly lovely. That first line makes me swoon! *sigh*

[RetroLounge]

4. Happy to make you swoon

:hi:

RL

[wildhorses]

2. mmmmmmmm....

the initial surge...
rushing through the veins
....all pumped up!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Good morning, my dear RetroLounge..........

What a wonderful love poem!

I just love it!

I feel it too........

Thank you.......:hug:

[idgiehkt]

5. very nice

really creative, makes me wonder what inspired these images. They work really well, I wouldn't have been able to come up with 'em. Thanks.



If you ever want to post something by Joy Harjo in here one day, I won't complain...

[RetroLounge]

6. I've been meaning to post Joy Harjo

if you have particular poem in mind, PM it to me...

:hi:

RL