[lit-ideas] Advent Poem
- From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:50:28 -0500
Thanks to Eric for reminding me of Theodore Roethke, Seattle's finest
poet until the advent of Mike Geary.
THE ADVENT COMETH
Color me purple
waiting liturgical
four Sundays running
waiting,
waiting,
waiting for God.
OK, then, Godot --
waiting,
waiting.
Forget it.
I went with Gidget,
at least she showed.
And so,
my poems,
gone Hawaiian,
lack the rigor of winter and rain,
and never let loose
such Roethkean truths
as: "Deep in their roots,
all flowers keep the light."
I keep to my height.
Mike Geary
Poet Laureate of Belvedere Boulevard.
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