Tag: love
member name: Mike Ellwood
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January 27, 2008 02:59 PM EST --
In the Supermarket
Is he a footman or a charioteer?
A few yards down the aisle his busy wife
Selects the treats and staples for their life,
The trolley . . .
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March 12, 2008 05:42 AM EDT --
My Violin
Our rosin powders mingle in the case,
Where, fallen from the belly and the bow,
Each particle trapped in the velvet space
Becomes our common . . .
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May 21, 2008 03:55 AM EDT --
A few years ago I visited Omaha Beach and the immaculately maintained American cemetry at Coleville-sur-Mer. It was a deeply moving experience, prompting these thoughts:
Meditation . . .
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June 11, 2008 05:35 PM EDT --
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September 13, 2008 05:00 AM EDT --
The Sunless Sea
The murmur of the sunless sea
With its dark swell and lambent foam
Is forming words enticingly
That conjure and describe for me
A stately . . .
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January 16, 2009 06:07 AM EST --
Abram and Sarai
You are still mine although your hair is straight
And shimmering scents surround you as you move.
You are still mine, the power of my love
Could melt those golden . . .
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April 10, 2008 10:00 AM EDT --
Daphne and Apollo
Pricked by Cupid's arrow? Oh, Apollo,
You were obsessed. A monomaniac,
Beyond your own control. Some of us know
How your sickness operates with its lack . . .
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April 17, 2008 03:32 AM EDT --
The Capstan's Arc
"Please tell me. Did my father save my life
That day I swung upon the capstan arm?"
"Of course. Though light, my . . .
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July 16, 2008 03:39 AM EDT --
Petrification
Before the cock crows
My heart hardens. Crystalline.
Blue veins in marble.
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Metamorphosis,
As thrice I deny your love.
I am become rock. . . .
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July 23, 2008 04:58 AM EDT --
A Vacant Chamber
He did not tell her the truth.
He let her think the seashell's whisper . . .
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November 17, 2008 04:31 PM EST --
Devotion
Sometimes the closest friend can ask too much
While roses bloom and promises are made
That are not kept because you are afraid,
And then . . .
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April 12, 2009 04:33 PM EDT --
The Fault
The globe contracts. Now feel the wrinkled flesh
Fissure and shift. Perhaps you sense some pain
As crunching rock gives way like crumbling bone . . .
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June 28, 2008 04:28 AM EDT --
Ever noticed how, as you get older, you begin to look like your parents?
Villanelle
I'm sleeping with my mother-in-law,
My wife is . . .
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January 10, 2009 03:50 PM EST --
Temptation
This idea of mine,
At least, this desire
That has grown somehow
And now requires me,
As if in a dream,
Obediently,
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February 24, 2009 06:09 PM EST --
To Snowdrops
Frail, but resilient
Wan petals, yet brilliant
Emerging from drifts
As Winter's coat lifts
See trembling snowdrops.
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May 14, 2009 04:21 AM EDT --
Weeding in May
I plunge my fingers in the warming ground
Up to my knuckles. In this private place
I grope through tender strands of living lace . . .
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April 25, 2009 09:05 AM EDT --
Self-Delusion
His words, a wrecker's ball, swung through her dreams.
The ball . . .
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October 10, 2008 09:36 AM EDT --
Woodstock
Does the city moan or does she cry?
Manhattan Island oozes light and sound,
Each Tower of Babel . . .
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January 27, 2009 04:55 AM EST --
After Sarah had given birth to Isaac the presence of Hagar and Ishmael displeased her greatly. She had no intention of allowing Ishmael to share in Isaac's inheritance and required Abraham to effect . . .
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February 12, 2009 05:34 AM EST --
Rebekah's Contemplation
May you find peace at last, released from me
Old troubled friend. Perhaps that sullenness
I knew so well, that bone-hard carapace
You hid . . .
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