The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Sat 4/18/2009)

[RetroLounge]

Parlor

We passed through
on the way to anywhere else.
No one lived there
but silence, a pale china gleam,

and the tired eyes of saints
aglow on velvet.
Mom says things are made
to be used. But Grandma insisted
peace was in what wasn't there,
strength in what was unsaid.

It would be nice to have a room
you couldn't enter, except in your mind.
I like to sit on my bed
plugged into my transistor radio,
"Moon River" pouring through my head.

How do you use life?
How do you feel it? Mom says

things harden with age; she says
Grandma is happier now. After the funeral,
I slipped off while they stood around
remembering-away from all
the talking and eating and weeping

to sneak a peek. She wasn't there.
Then I understood why
she had kept them just so:

so quiet and distant,
the things that she loved.

Rita Dove

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

:hi:

RL

[lizziegrace]

1. Thank you RL

:hug:

This one got to me...

[RetroLounge]

11. ...

:hug:

Thanks for sending it to me...

:hi:

RL

[Tuesday Afternoon]

2. yes

more, please. :donut: :hi:

[lizziegrace]

3. I found her book at the library

"On the Bus with Rosa Parks" by Rita Dove. :)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

4. Is it a book of poems?

I like her style.

[lizziegrace]

5. It is

I don't know how to put something in italics... ;)

A lot of her poems are online if you want to read more now.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

6. like this

{i}....{/i}

use the brackets instead ;) easy peasy :)

[lizziegrace]

7. Thanks!

:)

[Tuesday Afternoon]

8. yw

:D :hug: :loveya: :hi:

[RetroLounge]

12. ...

:hi:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. My dear Retro...

Ah, beautiful...

Especially this:

But Grandma insisted
peace was in what wasn't there,
strength in what was unsaid.

Thank you!

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

13. ...

:hi:

RL

[Chorophyll]

10. ...

:hi:

[RetroLounge]

14. ...

:hi:

Cancelled my trip to SLC... Couldn't work it out with the kids, vacation days, and price of plane tickets...

:(

RL

[Chorophyll]

15. Oh boo. :(

I'm sorry to hear that. Maybe next year? :hug:

[RetroLounge]

16. Hopefully I'll be there in June for the seminar...

:hi:

RL

[Chorophyll]

17. Even better!

:hi: