The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 1/20/2007)

[RetroLounge]

The Altar

The plastic statue of the Virgin
On top of a bedroom dresser
With a blackened mirror
From a bad-dream grooming salon.

Two pebbles from the grave of a rock star,
A small, grinning windup monkey,
A bronze Egyptian coin
And a red movie-ticket stub.

A splotch of sunlight on the framed
Communion photograph of a boy
With the eyes of someone
Who will drown in a lake real soon.

An altar dignifying the god of chance.
What is beautiful, it cautions,
Is found accidentally and not sought after.
What is beautiful is easily lost.

Charles Simic

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RL

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[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Good morning, my dear Retro........

Ah, this is so lovely!

This last verse especially struck me, and you know why:

An altar dignifying the god of chance.
What is beautiful, it cautions,
Is found accidentally and not sought after.
What is beautiful is easily lost.

Thank you for this..........:hug:

[bluethruandthru]

2. Excellent one today!

Thanks RL!

[swimboy]

3. That's pretty heartbreaking

:hi: