The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sun 1/11/2009)

[RetroLounge]

For a Senior Killed on Prom Night

It's useless to pretend you would have been
a genius. I taught you and I know.
You made the team, but others made it win.
A ready smile made up for being slow.

You'd have been ordinary in the end:
the hardest worker someone ever had,
one woman's husband and one man's best friend,
recipient of cards for "world's best dad."

So why, where you'd have been, is there a blank
so huge, a hole where all thoughts go to die?
The world has only lost one of its rank
and file. You didn't even make me cry.

Why do I go outside at one a.m.
and search the stars as though I'd numbered them?

Gail White

**************

:hi:

RL

[Dystopian]

1. Oh, Retro

:cry:

This poem reflects our past and my greatest fear...searching the stars.
I now feel that I can't put it off... know it's time for another heart wrenching talk.
Thank you...:hug:
(sorry, it's one of those days)
peace~

[RetroLounge]

8. ...

:hug:

RL

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. The extraordinary miracle of being ordinary made

clear as the stars in the night sky.

[RetroLounge]

9. Hey!

:hi:

RL

[blueraven95]

3. ...

:cry:



:hi:

[RetroLounge]

10. ...

:hi:

RL

[Kajsa]

4. " Where all thoughts go to die"

sums it up very well.

Thanks so much for sharing this, Retro.

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

11. ...

:hi:

RL

[Chorophyll]

5. Oh man...

And she wrote a sonnet for him, no less. :cry:





(It is a sonnet, isn't it? D'oh...)

[RetroLounge]

6. Yeah, It is.

and I think the form tihhtens up the poem and stretches the emotions just to the point of breaking.

It's a well done sonnet

RL

[Chorophyll]

15. Agreed. It's very spare. nt

[CaliforniaPeggy]

7. My dear Retro...

Oh boy...

I hadn't looked at the title at first...

Of course, I realized it was about someone's death...and then I looked.

It broke my heart.

Beautifully done, still...

Thank you.

:cry:

[RetroLounge]

12. ...

:hi:

RL

[Fire Walk With Me]

13. Ah, sweet. The equality and value of us all...

This is one reason the end of Blade Runner very nearly always makes me cry.

[RetroLounge]

14. ...

:hi:

RL