Good poems get buried so deep on the Internet,
It seems like they may never be found again.
Nobody’s really looking very hard to start with
And then it turns out that they’re hidden
In heaps of other labeled stuff or on separate blogs
That are difficult to spot and trouble to sift through.
Who likes poetry so much any more
That they’ll search through heaps of crossed wires
And musty brittle baskets of old paper flowers
Just to find a few sweet candies
That somehow haven’t gone bad yet.
Even I don’t do all that any more!
Gila Woodpeckers
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I was at Bill and Alice’s long enough to observe the habits of several
birds and be ready when they showed up. The Gila Woodpecker was one of the
most pre...
2 days ago
Trouble is, no one enjoys a good poem anymore...unless you're over 40, maybe 50.
ReplyDeleteThe young folks these days are used to short text messages, short blog posts, with their short attention spands.
Poems are too hard to interpret in just a "once over lightly." You have to roll them around your brain in order to get all the juicy flavors.
Here! I am officially "leaving a comment". There now! I came, I read, I went! However, I WILL be back....!
ReplyDeleteQuite right, Mushy. It seems like life is changing, but we're just becoming the "old farts" and have to play our part.
ReplyDeleteNext thing you know, Bruno, I'll get a visit from Arnold!
That's AHH-NULD to you, little-maawn!
ReplyDeleteRoses are red,
ReplyDeleteviolets are blue,
I liked the poem,
and I like you, too;)
Where does this appear on your blog:
ReplyDeleteWhen you're lost in the rain in Juarez
And it's Eastertime too
And your gravity fails
And negativity don't pull you through
It shows up in Bloglines under your header title.
I know that, BRUNO (spoken loudly), I just don't do accents very well! You know?
ReplyDeletePucker up, Goddess, and I'll give you a small surprise!
I might almost wonder about that, too, Mushy. For a brief period before I went to Beta, that piece of lyric from Dylan's song WAS the description on TRS. But no matter how long it's been and no matter that I've deleted and added the subscription to my own blog a couple of times, it lingers. It just won't go away! I rather like it, but it could make a few people's brains curl out there! How's your brain?
Thought I recognized that...oh, I'm just fine!
ReplyDeleteSMALL?! Sigh.
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