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- Wit and Technology at allpoetry
Would the words be as witty
or would they be as read - The World Yearns at allpoetry
Invading the capitol city,
revelers in throngs - Dream or Nightmare at allpoetry
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on Sonnet: What Lips My Lips Have Kissed by Edna St. Vincent Millay, on December 28, 2008Edna lets her past slip by
with "unremembered" names,
but to me it seems she may
wwell recall each muidight
tryst in great detail. -
on A Winter Walk by John Albee, on July 26, 2008Yemassee, the truth you see
in what took place in Albee's mind
as he pondered which to celebrate,
the dry preacher or the mouse who lived
but now so stiff and dead
dying in his last endeavor.
And of course, as you point out,
the mouse won out in Albee's mind
and made it to his text!
M-C
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on Shoulders Support The World by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, on June 18, 2008It appears acceptance has ovethrown
the spirited fight for rights, for love, for life.
"...no point in dying...
No good reasons, I agree.
Not yet in the mode of acceptance.
M-C


Drummond, in "New Year's Recipe"
admonishes the reader not
'...to half believe
That by the decree of hope
From January onward things will change
And everything will be brightness, reward,
Justice among men and nations..."
But January 20, 2009 in Washington, DC, USA
one might want to fully believe....