[lit-ideas] Re: Advent Poem

  • From: "Mike Geary" <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 21:43:56 -0500

Irene:

Sorry, Mike.  I see
the springtime images and also the timeless images.
You are the poet laureate around here Mike.  Truly.
Thank you, Irene, but I was just playing off Robert Paul's facetious reference to me as a Seattle poet. It amused me and so I chose to respond by going with his use of "advent" which, capitalized, is a liturgical feast in the Catholic Church beginning the month before Christmas -- the "Anticipation" would be a better name -- clerical vestment colors are purple during Advent which might well have been a cryptic reference, but I'm not responsible for others' ignorance of Catholic liturgy.
I never ever question what anyone else says they see in anything I've written -- who am I to argue? I have no idea what I'm "saying", I'm just having fun. Which I thought was what I was saying. 

Mike Geary
just grateful to be read.
Memphis
----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy" <mimi.erva@xxxxxxxxx> 
To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, April 18, 2008 9:23 PM
Subject: [lit-ideas] Re: Advent Poem



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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