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Posted on 07/06/2007 7:07:33 AM PDT by Soaring Feather
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I have had that for a long time but had never formatted the poem..I had finally done so..thinking it was time for me to post it on the Lair..and then I saw your lovely graphic..Great timing!
Great timing!
Indeed so, I just love that you are posting classic poetry,it adds so much to our thread.
I should note the artist is Frank Cadogan Cowper (1926)
;o)
I hate to format text..but hope it it not too long before I find another to post.
LOL, yes, formatting text is tedious at best.
Thanks for the artist’s name. Gorgeous graphic, I perused the painting closely. That is some set of armor the knight is wearing, love those pointy toes. ;)
Great find both graphic and poem.
LOL I sure would not want to be on the receiving end of a toe kick! ROTFLOL
Did you noticed the way the armor glows, wonderful artist.
I love it.
And in comes the one and only 4 of a kind!
LOL! Good afternoon Lady!
Absolutely. They are also used to kill the cockroaches that retreat to the corners.
 During that summer When unicorns were still possible; When the purpose of knees Was to be skinned; When shiny horse chestnuts (Hollowed out fitted with straws crammed with tobacco stolen from butts In family ashtrays) Were puffed in green lizard silence While straddling thick branches Far above and away From the softening effects of civilization; During that summer-- Which may never have been at all; But which has become more real Than the one that was--- Watermelons ruled. Thick pink imperial slices Melting frigidly on sun-parched tongues Dribbling from chin; leaving the best part, The black bullet seeds, To be spit out in rapid fire Against the wall Against the wind Against each other; And when the ammunition was spent, There was always another bite; It was a summer of limitless bites, Of hungers quickly felt And quickly forgotten With the next careless gorging. The bites are fewer now. Each one is savored lingeringly, Swallowed reluctantly. But in a jar put up by Felicity, The summer which maybe never was Has been captured and preserved. And when we unscrew the lid And slice off a piece And let it linger on our tongue; Unicorns become possible again. |
Delightful!! Did you write it??
“Did I write that?”
OHMYGOSH NO! (You SAW some of MY writing with that ‘crooked man’ thing the other day. SO not this good!)
...and anyway, you KNOW how ‘Watermelons’ always taste SO much better when they’re STOLEN!
I just cobbled a couple of things together for you today... (Whoa! ...non-political, for a change! Imagine THAT!) ...chuckle. Just call it ‘giving back to the community’... grin.
Sources:
http://www.watermelon.org/assets/Smile.jpg
http://www.emule.com/2poetry/phorum/read.php?7,153806,158612
The entire piece was lots of fun. Thanks.
The Crooked Man piece was fun, too.
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Says it all.
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