The RetroLounge Daily Poem Thread (Tue 2/28/06)

[RetroLounge]

Here Is A Wound That Never Will Heal, I Know

Here is a wound that never will heal, I know,
Being wrought not of a dearness and a death,
But of a love turned ashes and the breath
Gone out of beauty; never again will grow
The grass on that scarred acre, though I sow
Young seed there yearly and the sky bequeath
Its friendly weathers down, far Underneath
Shall be such bitterness of an old woe.
That April should be shattered by a gust,
That August should be levelled by a rain,
I can endure, and that the lifted dust
Of man should settle to the earth again;
But that a dream can die, will be a thrust
Between my ribs forever of hot pain.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

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RL

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[RevCheesehead]

1. I understand the pain....

but I refuse to believe that anything, no matter how bad, cannot be healed.

It's all about faith, baby.... ya gotta believe. O8)

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

10. It's all about faith, baby

Getting there, trying...

:hug:

RL

[xchrom]

2. interesting -- spring contains the most violent weather

of any season.

and the north american continent has the most violent springs of any continent on earth.

morning!

[RetroLounge]

8. Morning!

How are you today?

:hi:

RL

[xchrom]

11. well. and your self?

[RetroLounge]

13. Hanging in there...

:hi:

RL

[Callalily]

3. Maybe it's not a question

of never healing, but of time putting distance from pain, to become an isolated memory.

[RetroLounge]

7. Time and DIstance

Well, time is possible, distance will not be...

RL

[miss_american_pie]

4. How are you doing today?

:hug:

[RetroLounge]

6. Better, thanks.

Lots of sleep and I took RevCheeseHead's advice and hit my knees this morning...

:hi:

RL

[CaliforniaPeggy]

5. My dear RetroLounge....

Another beauty......

The last two lines really move me:

But that a dream can die, will be a thrust
Between my ribs forever of hot pain.

I can hear the pain in these lines, and feel it so profoundly myself...

I know a little about dreams dying, and it always hurts enormously...


:hug:

[RetroLounge]

9. My Dear CP

Glad you like it.

My goal for the next few days is to find some happy, hopeful poetry...

RL

[In_The_Wind]

12. Tis better to have known love ~

[RetroLounge]

14. Not so sure...

:shrug:

RL

[In_The_Wind]

15. I am sure.

[RetroLounge]

16. Then I'll trust you on that...

:hi:

RL

[lizziegrace]

17. I'm sure too

:hug:

As painful as it's been, without it, I wouldn't have my daughter and a few good memories. I would choose not to go down that particular path again, but I don't regret the decisions made. They were all made for the right reasons.