national poetry month
Apr. 8th, 2012 06:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
so national poetry month started but i've been way to out of it to post this year. i'll try and get a few up over the month, though.
For the Dead
I dreamed I called you on the telephone
to say: Be kinder to yourself
but you were sick and would not answer
The waste of my love goes on this way
trying to save you from yourself
I have always wondered about the left-over
energy, the way water goes rushing down a hill
long after the rains have stopped
or the fire you want to go to bed from
but cannot leave, burning-down but not burnt-down
the red coals more extreme, more curious
in their flashing and dying
than you wish they were
sitting long after midnight
-- Adrienne Rich
For the Dead
I dreamed I called you on the telephone
to say: Be kinder to yourself
but you were sick and would not answer
The waste of my love goes on this way
trying to save you from yourself
I have always wondered about the left-over
energy, the way water goes rushing down a hill
long after the rains have stopped
or the fire you want to go to bed from
but cannot leave, burning-down but not burnt-down
the red coals more extreme, more curious
in their flashing and dying
than you wish they were
sitting long after midnight
-- Adrienne Rich
no subject
Date: 2012-04-09 02:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-09 02:54 am (UTC)though if I did do that they'd better read it and like it.
no subject
Date: 2012-04-09 02:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-09 02:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-09 02:56 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-09 02:55 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-09 02:57 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-09 02:58 am (UTC)same thing?
no subject
Date: 2012-04-09 03:00 am (UTC)i'm a little worried about the poisoned tea though.
no subject
Date: 2012-04-09 03:03 am (UTC)A: I would say something mean, but you might die.
C: wait, who might die?
me, A: HAHAHAHAA.
me: but actually.
no subject
Date: 2012-04-09 01:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-04-09 05:47 pm (UTC)