The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 3/28/2009)

[RetroLounge]

The Diameter of the Bomb

The diameter of the bomb was thirty centimeters
and the diameter of its effective range about seven meters,
with four dead and eleven wounded.
And around these, in a larger circle
of pain and time, two hospitals are scattered
and one graveyard. But the young woman
who was buried in the city she came from,
at a distance of more than a hundred kilometers,
enlarges the circle considerably,
and the solitary man mourning her death
at the distant shores of a country far across the sea
includes the entire world in the circle.
And I won’t even mention the crying of orphans
that reaches up to the throne of God and
beyond, making
a circle with no end and no God.

Yehuda Amichai

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:hi:

RL

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. This reminds me of that commercial

Mike Gravel did. The ripple effect.
http://www.youtube.com/v/0rZdAB4V_j8&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x234900&color2=0x4e9e00&border=1

I would have edited out a lot of the waiting, but I have to admit it is what we are doing...Waiting.

He explains it here:
http://www.youtube.com/v/57GOsJNjRkY&hl=en&fs=1&rel=0&color1=0x2b405b&color2=0x6b8ab6&border=1

:donut: :hi:

[RetroLounge]

2. Interesting...

thanks for the links.

:hi:

RL

[Tuesday Afternoon]

3. y/w

Blame it on the fact that I am just now on my first cuppa Joe :D

[lizziegrace]

4. I like this

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

7. Hope you're feeling better

:hug:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear Retro...

I'm not sure why I did this, but I read this one out loud. I don't do that, normally...

And it had a huge impact on me, much more so than had I read it silently.

Really poignant, and beautiful...

Thank you...

:cry:

[RetroLounge]

8. ...

:hi:

RL

[Chorophyll]

6. ...

:cry:

[RetroLounge]

9. Yeah, I know...

:cry:

:hi:

RL

[BlueIris]

10. Awesome poem. I almost posted this last year. I love this author. nt

[RetroLounge]

11. He's good...

:hi:

RL

[Demoiselle]

12. WOW!

Thank you, Retro. This is an extraordinary piece of writing.

[RetroLounge]

13. Thanks for reading!

Glad to have you on the thread...

RL