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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 09:14 AM
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The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Tue 2/12/2008)
If I die solvent

If I die solvent — die, that is to say,
In full possession of my critical mind,
Not having cast, to keep the wolves at bay
In this dark wood — till all be flung behind —
Wit, courage, honor, pride, oblivion
Of the red eyeball and the yellow tooth;
Nor sweat nor howl nor break into a run
When loping Death's upon me in hot sooth;
'Twill be that in my honoured hands I bear
What's under no condition to be spilled
Till my blood spills and hardens in the air:
An earthen grail, a humble vessel filled
To its low brim with water from that brink
Where Shakespeare, Keats, Chaucer learned to drink.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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

:hi:

RL
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 09:23 AM
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1. Edna St. Vincent Millay is awesome!
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 06:54 PM
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4. Yes, she is!
:hi:

RL
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xchrom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 10:04 AM
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2. in full possession of my critical mind.
too late! -- i love this poem.

what a beauty.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 06:55 PM
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5. Too Late!
At least I have my body...

:D

RL
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 11:32 AM
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3. My dear Retro!
Oh, this is nice!

I had to read it a couple of times just to parse it...

Complex, and quite beautiful...

But simple at its core...

Thank you...

:hi:
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Feb-12-08 06:56 PM
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6. Yes, I love a good Sonnet...
:hi:

RL
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