tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272430209314356497.post6517574001971511164..comments2024-01-18T05:29:43.265-05:00Comments on The Music In It: Adele Kenny's Poetry Blog: Poetry Prompt #30 – On the ClotheslineADELE KENNYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09556261298519747516noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272430209314356497.post-79593275593759633102010-11-10T12:30:18.041-05:002010-11-10T12:30:18.041-05:00Maire, thank you for your comment. It's wonder...Maire, thank you for your comment. It's wonderful to know that someone in Ireland is enjoying the prompts.ADELE KENNYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09556261298519747516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272430209314356497.post-81223130961637362142010-11-10T12:28:56.943-05:002010-11-10T12:28:56.943-05:00Thanks, Kate! Your comment is much appreciated!Thanks, Kate! Your comment is much appreciated!ADELE KENNYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09556261298519747516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272430209314356497.post-76853080500423250452010-11-10T08:16:55.687-05:002010-11-10T08:16:55.687-05:00As always, Adele, wonderful ideas to "prompt&...As always, Adele, wonderful ideas to "prompt" us along. Thank you.<br /><br />Máire Ó Cathail (Ireland)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272430209314356497.post-52619340094617828682010-11-09T16:12:45.741-05:002010-11-09T16:12:45.741-05:00Thanks, Adele, for this blog. It really is a "...Thanks, Adele, for this blog. It really is a "poetry place." You've given us so much to read, write, and think about. It's wonderful to spend time here.<br /><br />Kate WhalenAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272430209314356497.post-49920477624980313882010-11-08T08:34:01.375-05:002010-11-08T08:34:01.375-05:00Jamie, as always, thanks for your comment, and tha...Jamie, as always, thanks for your comment, and thanks for this wonderful Dickinson poem.ADELE KENNYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09556261298519747516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272430209314356497.post-9527118356990341262010-11-08T06:56:59.756-05:002010-11-08T06:56:59.756-05:00As always, many thanks, Adele! Here's another ...As always, many thanks, Adele! Here's another poem for you and your readers that incorporates clothing. I can just imagine Emily pushing a "petal from her gown."<br /><br />Jamie<br /><br />EMILY DICKINSON – "I TIE MY HAT – I CREASE MY SHAWL"<br /><br />I tie my Hat—I crease my Shawl— <br />Life's little duties do—precisely— <br />As the very least <br />Were infinite—to me—<br />I put new Blossoms in the Glass— <br />And throw the old—away—<br /> I push a petal from my Gown<br /> That anchored there—I weigh <br />The time-twill be till six o'clock <br />I have so much to do— <br />And yet—Existence—some way back—<br /> Stopped—struck—my ticking—through— <br />We cannot put Ourself away <br />As a completed Man <br />Or Woman—When the Errand's done <br />We came to Flesh—upon— <br />There may be—Miles on Miles of Nought—<br /> Of Action—sicker far— <br />To simulate—is stinging work—<br /> To cover what we are <br />From Science—and from Surgery— <br />Too Telescopic Eyes <br />To beat on us unshaded—<br /> For their—sake—not for Ours—<br /> 'Twould start them— <br />We—could tremble—<br /> But since we got a Bomb— <br />And held it in our Bosom— <br />Nay—Hold it—it is calm— <br />Therefore—we do life's labor— <br />Though life's Reward—be done— <br />With scrupulous exactness— <br />To hold our Senses—on—<br />Or do you mean like this?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272430209314356497.post-1257841034622768062010-11-06T13:09:17.300-04:002010-11-06T13:09:17.300-04:00It's nice of you, Bob, to think of my poem. Th...It's nice of you, Bob, to think of my poem. Thank you!ADELE KENNYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09556261298519747516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272430209314356497.post-35233064222728175602010-11-06T09:55:25.554-04:002010-11-06T09:55:25.554-04:00Adele! Another unique idea! I know you designed th...Adele! Another unique idea! I know you designed this site not to be an "about me" blog, but I couldn't help thinking of your poem "Black River" and the pathos evoked by your references to clothing. Hope you don't mind me sharing it here with other readers. :-)<br /><br />BLACK RIVER <br /><br />In the almost-dark of a late spring <br />evening, the air still holds a scent of <br />moss on dampened stone, the bitter<br />tang of bluebells. <br /><br />You are with me because I remember <br />(the sense of you just over my left <br />shoulder), a shadow that follows the <br />angled light. <br /><br />This was your place, where the world <br />should have let you go – here where <br />the river turns, a fishing pole in your <br />hand, the back of <br /><br />your brown flannel shirt slipped from <br />your belt, your old shoes worn, as <br />they always were, on the insides <br />of their heels. <br /><br />I have come to touch your death with <br />the palm of my hand, clench my fist <br />around it, and fling it upstream like <br />bone ash into space. <br /><br />Go! Go now! I call down the stars <br />for your ransom. One by one they <br />fall into the river, which carries <br />them all away.bob.fiorellinohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05467645651262666895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272430209314356497.post-26792476425387366992010-11-06T09:42:59.102-04:002010-11-06T09:42:59.102-04:00Thanks for sharing, Ray!Thanks for sharing, Ray!ADELE KENNYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09556261298519747516noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6272430209314356497.post-49822169939310005222010-11-06T08:29:50.815-04:002010-11-06T08:29:50.815-04:00My Clothes
Once,
I put on my shirt - inside out....My Clothes<br /><br />Once, <br />I put on my shirt - inside out.<br /><br />Did this have great meaning?<br />Did the world take great note?<br />Was it somehow symbolic?<br />Should I fear for my coat?<br /><br />Is it anything like wearing your heart on your sleeve?<br />Or is that simply no problem, like the poets believe?<br /><br />When they tell you all men have a shirt with a tail,<br />is it Darwin, not Arrow, who we are to hail?<br /><br />And pants, they insist, on one leg at a time,<br />though they give you no reason, no logic, no rhyme.<br /><br />As for me, just for once<br />I would like to walk out<br />with my shoes pointed backwards<br />and my pants inside out.<br /><br />I’d reverse my shirt.<br />It would face the right way.<br />So it would be happy and<br />would not portray --<br />me - as somewhat disjointed.<br /><br />I forgot –<br /><br />One more thing:<br /><br />While the inside be inside<br />and the outside be out,<br />There’s one more condition,<br />I’d like to point out.<br />The front be the back. --<br /> so no buttons you’d see,<br />and the tail, it would lead<br /> and I could be me.<br /><br />Ray Brown<br />http://raybrown.wordpress.comAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com