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Date Posted:10/03/2018 10:38 AMCopy HTML Feel free to ad one of your's or leave a comment, FallYes Tis the proper name for the season because the temperature, leaves and snow are falling |
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Rockymz | Share to: #151 |
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Rockymz | Share to: #152 |
Re:Poems Date Posted:20/08/2022 11:33 AMCopy HTML (“Come as you are...”)VI Come as you are, tarry not over your toilet. If your braiding has come loose, if the parting of your hair be not straight, if the ribbons of your bodice be not fastened, do not mind. Come as you are, tarry not over your toilet. Come with quick steps over the grass. If your feet are pale with the dew, if your anklets slacken, if pearls drop out of your chain, do not mind. Come with quick steps over the grass. Do you see the clouds wrapping the sky? Flocks of cranes fly up from the further riverbank and fitful gusts of wind rush over the heath. The anxious cattle run to their stalls in the village. Do you see the clouds wrapping the sky? In vain you light your toilet lamp; it flickers and goes out in the wind. Surely, who would know that with lamp-black your eyelids are not touched? For your eyes are darker than rain clouds. In vain you light your toilet lamp; it goes out. Come as you are, tarry not over your toilet. If the wreath is not woven, who cares? If the wrist-chain has not been tied, leave it by. The sky is overcast with clouds; it is late. Come as you are, tarry not over your toilet. |
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Rockymz | Share to: #153 |
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Rockymz | Share to: #164 |
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Rockymz | Share to: #168 |
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DirtyDancer1957 | Share to: #169 |
Re:Poems Date Posted:11/07/2022 11:33 AMCopy HTML ReLeaf, ReliefWe asked for a Japanese cherry, a redbud, and a sugar maple. The Friday before my surgery is when they will arrive. Then Monday is my lumpectomy. It’s Stage One, small, and I’ll come home to the Japanese cherry in our yard that same day. And my children will be here. I’ll heal. I was thirteen when I read about this surgery and felt titillated. A woman’s worry in “Tell Me, Doctor,” Mama’s Ladies’ Home Journal. “Sposin’ that he says that your lips are like cherries,” Ado Annie sings in “I Cain’t Say No.” To me it was a story, like in Oklahoma, the bad girl in the musical we played on our hi-fi stereo. The doctor mentioned surgery and said a doctor should examine her breasts and to me this was sex, Lady Chatterley’s breasts swinging “like bells.” I knew people died when they were old. The Japanese cherry and the other trees are part of “ReLeaf,” free trees if you sign up early. I’ve been told that I’ll feel relieved to get this behind me, the surgery, which is what Dr. Goodrich C. Schauffler advises in “Tell Me, Doctor” in 1962, when women had to feel for the cancerous lumps and I sang “your lips are like cherries” to the record player heartlessly, in Mississippi, not thinking that the woman in that column, in “Tell Me, Doctor,” probably would die. Surgeries were worse. Jacqueline Susann had a double mastectomy, but the model in her novel, Valley of the Dolls, only knows how to take off her clothes. A Japanese cherry planted in our yard, a redbud and a sugar maple. These trees won’t have cherries or maple syrup—they are ornamental, as breasts seem until you hear you need to have surgery. Sposin’, I sang, your lips are like cherries? |
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Rockymz | Share to: #170 |
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Rockymz | Share to: #175 |
Re:Poems Date Posted:28/06/2022 7:44 AMCopy HTML Juke Box Love Song by Langston Hughes I could take the Harlem night and wrap around you, Take the neon lights and make a crown, Take the Lenox Avenue busses, Taxis, subways, And for your love song tone their rumble down. Take Harlem's heartbeat, Make a drumbeat, Put it on a record, let it whirl, And while we listen to it play, Dance with you till day-- Dance with you, my sweet brown Harlem girl. |
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Rockymz | Share to: #176 |
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