[lit-ideas] Re: Advent Poem

  • From: Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:23:15 -0700 (PDT)

Nothing like not reading something all the way
through.  That's what happens when I'm not reading
about peak oil.  I get confused.  Sorry, Mike.  I see
the springtime images and also the timeless images. 
You are the poet laureate around here Mike.  Truly.




--- Andy <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The Advent is about Christmas, isn't it?  Why are
> you
> doing Christmas in April?
> 
> 
> --- Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > 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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