yes, grace is the right word
J
2008/6/11 Anny Ballardini <[log in to unmask]>:
> I also like this poem, it has a particular grace.
>
> On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 7:59 PM, TheOldMole <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > I love this. I'd like to see maybe a little more work on the last line.
> >
> > Kenneth Wolman wrote:
> >
> >> sharon brogan wrote:
> >>
> >>> I wake this June morning to storm warnings,
> >>> white caps on the mountains, dogs curled warm
> >>> against my knees. Even with the dogs, this bed
> >>> is too wide, too cold. The sky darkens and snow
> >>> falls into the valley. I comfort myself
> >>>
> >>> with cappuccino. Tomorrow is your birthday.
> >>> I braid this long hair, which I will cut off soon,
> >>> and tie it up with fake pearls. I put on rings,
> >>> a silver bracelet, a long-sleeved high-neck
> >>> sweater. I wish for blue sky, for a blond
> >>>
> >>> streak of sun to melt this snow. I wish
> >>> for summer flowers, for years and seasons
> >>> to fall away, for limber, painless youth. My hair
> >>> will grow back grey. The garden will bloom,
> >>> soon. Storms will come, storms will go.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
> >> And I am left utterly speechless.....
> >>
> >> Ken
> >>
> >>
> >>
> > --
> > Tad Richards
> > http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
> > http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
> >
> > The moral is this: in American verse,
> > The better you are, the pay is worse.
> > --Corey Ford
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Anny Ballardini
> http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
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> I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
> star!
>
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