what of childish things remains

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joel
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what of childish things remains

Post by joel » October 4th, 2011, 10:10 am

The tune was hummed and unharmonious
and happy as it slid in unison
upon itself— as if the song (begun
with unseen sparrows, whose melodious,
kurt whistles shape the parsimonious
advancement of today) was threadyarn spun
in fables: rocks and plants and beasts who run
for moral good from more erroneous
assumptions where it's strength who wins the day;
the tune was hummed where something else held sway—
where someone small, unskilled, untrained might play
on instruments without the nuisance of
grand theories of euphonics, but with love—
the tune was hummed in such a childish way.
"Every genuinely religious person is a heretic, and therefore a revolutionary" -- GBShaw

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dadio
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Re: what of childish things remains

Post by dadio » October 5th, 2011, 3:34 am

Impressive poem.

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Sue Littleton
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Re: what of childish things remains

Post by Sue Littleton » October 11th, 2011, 8:37 am

DID...YOU...GET...THE...BOOKS? mujermaizyahoo.com

A tender poem of memories, but don't you mean ¨curt" rather than "kurt"? Sue

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