Tempted as I am to draw attention
To the flurry of words we attract
A silence in the real world
Attracts me instead
A silence that is heavy
With words we all can hear
As we wait for speech
This silence is punctuated
(Is that what attracts me?)
By the beeping of a dying cellphone
An alarm? A signal, maybe.
I get up and leave the [...]
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Posted in Some of these rhyme on May 6, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Limerick-a-thon!
Posted in Some of these rhyme on March 14, 2007 | 9 Comments »
So, I wote those limericks at the other blog, and then I wrote this, which I decided to post here.
In the dark eddies of the Income Tax Act
Concealed in little whorls of law and fact
Lie treasures untold
That you may behold
If you have the patience many have lacked
Follow the currents of black-letters-of-law
Sometimes you have to fight [...]
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Posted in Some of these rhyme on February 14, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I always thought D.H. Lawrence was a better poet than novelist, and he proves me right again.
The Elephant is Slow to Mate
by D.H. Lawrence
The elephant, the huge old beast,
is slow to mate;
he finds a female, they show no haste
they wait
for the sympathy in their vast shy hearts
slowly, slowly to rouse
as they loiter along the river-beds
and [...]
