[New-Poetry] As I sit writing here

[TheOldMole]

Ooh, that's good.

Halvard Johnson wrote:
> Not bad, David. Here's another--
>
> What Your Doctor Knows
>  
> Knowledge you often hate on first hearing,
> coming to love as it grows into you. Perfect
> anecdotes in spite of all your tense
> accusations, while, despite the wallflowers
>  
> gang-banging the geraniums, a wild kitten
> careens in your heart, love by second sight.
> The greater the yearning, the greater
> the grief. Impractical accident, with a difference.
>
>
> HJ
>
> "To go is to go farther."
>               --Kenneth Koch
>
> Halvard Johnson
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>
>
> On Jul 27, 2007, at 2:02 PM, David Graham wrote:
>
>> On Jul 27, 2007, at 2:52 PM, Halvard Johnson wrote:
>>> Well, that's one way of looking at it.
>>>
>>> Hal
>> ======================
>>
>>
>> Yes.  And here's another:
>>
>>
>> Hefts of the moving world at innocent gambols, silently rising, 
>> freshly exuding,
>> Scooting obliquely high and low.
>>  
>> Something I cannot see puts upward libidinous prongs,
>> Seas of bright juice suffuse heaven.
>>  
>> The earth by the sky staid with . . . . the daily close of their 
>> junction,
>> The heaved challenge from the east that moment over my head,
>> The mocking taunt, See then whether you shall be master!
>>  
>> Dazzling and tremendous how quick the sunrise would kill me,
>> If I could not now and always send sunrise out of me. 
>>
>>
>> ========================================
>> David Graham
>> grahamd at ripon.edu <mailto:grahamd at ripon.edu>
>>
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>>
>>
>>>
>>> On Jul 27, 2007, at 1:45 PM, David Graham wrote:
>>>
>>>> *As I Sit Writing Here*
>>>>  
>>>> As I sit writing here, sick and grown old,
>>>> Not my least burden is that dulness of the years, querilities,
>>>> Ungracious glooms, aches, lethargy, constipation, whimpering ennui,
>>>> May filter in my dally songs.
>>>>  
>>>> -- Walt Whitman
>>>>
>>
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