Feste: You were right. Thank you. Apologies. It somehow means less to me that I know it is Larkin now. :-) If you get my drift. I liked being corrected, as in some subtle way I was misaligned with reality when I thought it was a James Dickey poem.
Tell Share I am doing my best. And that I am a nice guy. I always was a kind of bully. Anyway, Larkin it is. Robin --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "feste37" <feste37@...> wrote: > > Wrong poet. This is by Philip Larkin. > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emilymae.reyn" <emilymae.reyn@> wrote: > > > > Dear Curtis, the last line in your post is the closest that you come to my > > intentions on posting what I did. > > > > Talking in Bed > > > > Talking in be ought to be easiest, > > Lying together there goes back so far, > > An emblem of two people being honest. > > > > Yet more and more time passes silently. > > Outside, the wind's incomplete unrest > > Builds and disperses clouds about the sky, > > > > And dark towns heap up on the horizon. > > None of this cares for us. Nothing shows why > > At this unique distance from isolation > > > > It becomes still more difficult to find > > Words at once true and kind, > > Or not untrue and not unkind. > > > > James Dickey > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "curtisdeltablues" > > <curtisdeltablues@> wrote: > > > > > > I get it that you don't like Share Emily, but this "energetically > > > aligning to Hitler" charge seems unfair. > > > > > > > > > It was Robin who brought him into the conversation and she just batted > > > that ball back in the same sense of absurdity that it was thrown. > > > > > > It is a setup to now lay the whole heaviness of the holocaust on her as > > > if she doesn't have the same grasp any of us have who didn't live through > > > it, but have read about it. I'll be she also thinks it was a horrible > > > bad thing just as you do, and posting more horrors wont make her more > > > sensitive to the issues than she already is. > > > > > > And why didn't Robin get the sad gypsy song treatment when he brought > > > Hitler up in a flip way? > > > > > > That said the song is beautiful and moving and the video is amazing so I > > > guess in the end art triumphs over all intentions. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "emilymae.reyn" <emilymae.reyn@> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Dear Share: This song is quite stirring from about 1:12 - in that the > > > > video allows us to *see* the woman singing. > > > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwsNbhz-XcI > > > > <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BwsNbhz-XcI> > > > > > > > > > >
