The green-blue ground
is ruled with silver lines
to say the sun is shining
And on this moral sea
of grass or dreams lie flowers
or baskets of desires
Heaven knows what they are
between cerulean shapes
laid regularly round
Mat roses and tridentate
leaves of gold
threes, threes and threes
Three roses and three stems
the basket floating
standing in the horns of blue
Repeating to the ceiling
to the windows
where the day
Blows in
the scalloped curtains to
the sound of rain
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Very nice poem,
Didnt the word Gay used to mean Happy back then?
. Ohwellstill a good poem though.
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i dont feel like this poem hit the spot like the other ones of his poems did. -
Either the title is metaphorical or the poem is. I feel it's a bit of both on this one. It's a good piece, I just don't know about the title (On Happy Wallpaper)
Scenery I reckon.
It has a sort of rhyme to it, but I don't think that's intentional just a happenstance perhaps.
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David G Arnold-
I think this poem is describing the wall-paper from the floor to the ceiling. Of course, anyone can make what they want of the 'meaning' of this poem; the wonder of poetry is that it can mean anything to anyone. But the words themselves describe the wall-paper. It's the sixth stanza that really tips me off to that.
The poem might just be pretty words, maybe not. That's for each person to describe, so I'm not going to put forth what I glean from the piece.
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