The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Fri 4/6/2007)

[RetroLounge]

Funeral Blues

Stop all the clocks, cut off the telephone,
Prevent the dog from barking with a juicy bone,
Silence the pianos and with muffled drum
Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come.

Let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead
Scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead,
Put crêpe bows round the white necks of the public doves,
Let the traffic policemen wear black cotton gloves.

He was my North, my South, my East and West,
My working week and my Sunday rest,
My noon, my midnight, my talk, my song;
I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

The stars are not wanted now; put out every one,
Pack up the moon and dismantle the sun,
Pour away the ocean and sweep up the wood;
For nothing now can ever come to any good.

W.H. Auden

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RL

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[wildhorses]

1. mourning ...

this sounds familiar...i have read it somewhere before.

i like it

I thought that love would last for ever: I was wrong.

so sad yet the hint of anger is there

[RetroLounge]

2. It was made famous in a movie

4 weddings and a funeral...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hcAYsJo3-uM

RL

[wildhorses]

6. ahhh yes, thanks for the link

:cry:

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. My dear Retro....

I love this poem...

It was so incredible, hearing it in "Four Weddings and a Funeral."

It describes the landscape of grief so perfectly.....

Thank you...:hug:

[RetroLounge]

7. ...

:hug:

RL

[cwydro]

4. That

is a great poem.

[idgiehkt]

5. beatiful

That is incredibly moving, the poem of a gay man to his lover who has passed on. Thanks for reminding me what I should be doing with my time...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._H._Auden