Nice one! On 11/30/05, jane bhandari <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try this one by U.A. Fanthorpe.... > > THE ABSENT-MINDED LOVER'S APOLOGY > > I would like you think I love you warmly > Like brown cat yawning among sheets in the linen cupboard. > > I would like you to think I love you resourcefully > Like rooftop starlings posting chuckles down the flue. > > I would like you to think I love you extravagantly > Like black cat embracing the floor when you pick up the can-opener. > > I would like you to think I love you accurately > Like Baskerville kern that fits its place to a T. > > I would like you to think I love you with hurrahs and halleujahs > Like dog whippetting at you down the intricate hillside. > > I would like you to think I love you wittily > like pottery Cox that lurks in the fruit-bowl under the Granyy Smiths. > > I would like you to think I love you pacifically and for ever > Like collared doves on the whitebeam's domestic branch. > > I would like you to think I love you chronologically > like second hand solemnly navigating the clock. > > And O I want to love you, not in the absent tense, but in the here and the > now > Like a present-minded lover. > > (from Hand in Hand, an anthology of love poems compiled by carol Ann Duffy) > > Vivek Narayanan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How is it possible not to love this poem? (I say this not just > because I have someone in mind.) > > Frank O'Hara, "Having a Coke with You" > > is even more fun than going top San Sebastian, Irun, Hendaye, > Biarritz, Bayonne > or being sick to my stomach on the Travesera de Gracia in > Barcelona > partly because in your orange shirt you look like a better > happier St. Sebastian > partly because of my love for you, partly because of your love > for yoghurt > partly because of the fluorescent orange tulips around the > birches > partly because of the secrecy our smiles take on before people > and statuary > it is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be > anything as still > as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in > front of it > in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and > forth > between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles > and the portrait show seems to have no faces in it at all, just > paint > you suddenly wonder why in the world anyone ever did them > I look > at you and I would rather look at you than all the portraits in > the world > except possibly for the Polish Rider occasionally and anyway it's > in the Frick > which thank heavens you haven't gone to yet so we can go > together the first time > and the fact that you move so beautifully more or less takes > care of Futurism > just as at home I never think of the Nude Descending a Staircase or > at a rehearsal a single drawing of Leonardo or Michaelangelo > that used to wow me > and what good does all the research of the impressionists do > them > when they never got the right person to stand near the tree > when the sun sank > or for that matter Marino Marini when he didn't pick the rider > as carefully > as the horse > it seems they were all cheated of some > marvelous experience > which is not going to go wasted on me which is why I'm > telling you about it. > > ________________________________ > To help you stay safe and secure online, we've developed the all new Yahoo! > Security Centre. > > -- > You are encouraged to post poetry, respond critically to the poems > circulated and participate in discussions. To post, email your message to > [email protected] OR post online at > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/post/ > > Tell friends to subscribe to ZESTPoets by sending a blank email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], OR, if they have a > Yahoo! ID, by visiting > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/join/ > > > > ---theZESTcommunity-------------- > > [1] ZESTCurrent: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCurrent/ > [2] ZESTEconomics: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTEconomics/ > [3] ZESTGlobal: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTGlobal/ > [4] ZESTMedia: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTMedia/ > [5] ZESTPoets: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTPoets/ > [6] ZESTCaste: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTCaste/ > [7] ZESTAlternative: > http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ZESTAlternative/ > [8] TalkZEST: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TalkZEST/ > --- > > > > ________________________________ > YAHOO! GROUPS LINKS > > > Visit your group "ZESTPoets" on the web. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service. > > ________________________________ > > >
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