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Posted: 16-Jun-2002 22:20 Post subject: Interesting poem
And, yes Chihawk, its in the Public Domain. Its also the poem that Dave Matthews, of Dave Matthews Band, used to write the song Typical Situation.
Nine planets, Sir, endlessly circle,
Sir, one yellow star among Sir's galaxies:
Pluto Neptune Venus Jupiter Saturn Uranus Mercury Mars and this-
this watered and this aired this favored one
where all that crawl and swim and fly and run that drove and swarm and herd and flock are in with tooth and
leg and lung and claw and fin created clothed and colored are by
Sir Eight colors (counting white)
Sir's rainbow makes when whiteness on
Sir's broken waters breaks arched over tidal blue
and branching grey
and grazing green
and foaling brown down
and away with gorsing yellow glow
and honeyed hay
and petalled blush
and mottled winging whir;
the limpid eyes each of
Sir's colors wakes dark-irised are
and cleared
and curved by
Sir Seven tossing seas
Sir's pent-up lands divide where silver shoals in aching green-ness glide turn suddenly
and dart
and flatly lie break surface plunge
and from each other hide
and stare as though by staring they aver what sweet surprise had widened
each wide eye that once looked early on creating
Sir Six senses there were
then in us who were salt-tasting all along the salt-scented shore who felt
crust cool and looked on shrinking sea
and heard gull-cry on draining estuary
and found back of these five a something more:
a sense of self and back of self--
Sir Five fingers though (counting a thumb)
were what we mostly wereaware of as we fought
Sir's elements and cleared Sir's forests
and sought creation-wise new metalled ways to go by spinning wheel
and wing off runway.
So? Four quarters of our world began to grow too few
and of Sir's yellow star we thought equations scribbled bubbled in retort distilled its hot explosive secrets.
So? Three questions pose themselves now as we wait:
did Sir not know how to end what Sir began? Or could we choose? Or did Sir always plan?
Two hands of ours to bring us soon
or late bent to destroy what the hands of
Sir had wrought One day when we and all our world are brought to Nought?
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