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Pastimes : Calling all SI Poets -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Graystone who wrote (2043)	11/28/2004 10:07:28 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2095

I fell in love with Norman MacCaig (and he doesn't know): Autumn Wanting to go, all the leaves want to go though they have achieved their kingly robes. Weary of colors, they think of black earth, they think of white snow. Stealthily, delicately, as a safebreaker, they unlock themselves from branches. And from their royal towers they sift silently down to become part of the proletariat of mud. I find that amazingly perfectly beautiful. It's a gift for you. I love my garden, and I hope you like the poem.

To: Graystone who wrote (2043)	11/28/2004 10:14:28 AM
From: epicure	Respond to of 2095

Since I am not monoamorous (don't judge me too harshly), I also love Stevie Smith: Was he Married? - By Stevie Smith Was he married, did he try To support as he grew less fond of them wife and family? No, He never suffered such a blow. Did he feel pointless, feeble and distrait, Unwanted by everyone and in the way? From his cradle he was purposeful, His bent strong and his mind full. Did he love people very much Yet find them die one day? He did not love in the human way. Did he ask how long it would go on, Wonder if Death could be counted on for an end? He did not feel like this, He had a future of bliss. Did he ever feel strong Pain for being wrong? He was not wrong he was right, He suffered for others', not his own spite. But there is no suffering like having made a mistake Because of being an inferior make. He was not inferior, He was superior. He knew then that power corrupts but some must govern? His thoughts were different. Did he lack friends? Worse, Think it was his fault, not theirs? He did not lack friends, He had disciples he moulded to his ends. Did he feel over-handicapped sometimes, yet must draw even? How could he feel like this? He was the king of heaven. ...find a sudden brightness one day in everything Because a mood had been conquered, or a sin? I tell you, he did not sin. Do only human beings suffer from the irritation I have mentioned? learn too that being comical Does not ameliorate the desperation? Only human beings feel like this, It is because they are so mixed. All humans should carry a medal, A god cannot carry it, he is not able. A god is a Man's doll, you ass, He makes him up like this on purpose. He might have made him up worse. He often has, in the past. To choose a god of love, as he did and does, Is a little move then? Yes, it is. A larger one will be when men Love love and hate hate but do not deify them? It will be a larger one.