[lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem

I really like your "stuff", David.  Sometimes I think it's great, sometimes 
"merely" charming, but always delightful.  I hesitate to kudo people because 
it sets up expectations of kudoance that when lacking can cause anxiety, and 
yet, I know that we're all just sitting around waiting for Kudo.  So it's 
kudo to you, but don't expect one every goddamn time you write a poem -- got 
it?

Thanks again
Mike


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From: "David Ritchie" <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Sunday, May 29, 2005 1:00 AM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Sunday Poem


>
> My love lured into the garden; a romance of the middle ages.
>
> The season of stuff stuffing up our gutters is done.
> Moss and slime are in decline, dying but not yet gone.
> The testing time for our shoots now approaches,
> but foxgloves and spanish lavender thrive when the temperature rises,
> so when we step out,
> they will have bloomed, be thick with the sweet promise of orange bees.
> You'll find the ground has now gone hard.
> Last week, after the east wind,
> which dries clay quicker than washing,
> I tested the sod with a spade.
> Ha!  No chance of our house settling soon.
>
> So we are a packet still far from shore,
> making a good knot or five,
> not high, not dry,
> both firm and sound.
> In another season we may be bunkered in by heat,
> or cowering under sheets
> of rain,
> or frail or, who can say,
> painting scenes in the forest back?
> So come with me now into our earthy delight
> to sit under the Russian olive.
> Cock an ear with me,
> bring some fine hot tea,
> let's fiddle a while with our rings,
> chat,
> anticipate what tunes peonies can bring.
>
> David Ritchie
> Portland, Oregon
>
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