Quotes about sill, page 9
Elegy In The Classroom
In the thin classroom, where your face
was noble and your words were all things,
I find this boily creature in your place;
find you disarranged, squatting on the window sill,
irrefutably placed up there,
like a hunk of some big frog
watching us through the V
of your woolen legs.
Even so, I must admire your skill.
You are so gracefully insane.
We fidget in our plain chairs
and pretend to catalogue
our facts for your burly sorcery
or ignore your fat blind eyes
or the prince you ate yesterday
who was wise, wise, wise.
poem by Anne Sexton
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Lost but not yet found
He is lost like a lone sheep
Blahing away to heard
She is lost like a lone bee
Buzzing around the window sill
They wander both seeking
As if a conspired feeling
Year after year they wander
Month after month they ponder
Wondering what is yonder
Both lost but not yet found
The answer lies on the same strange ground
They have walked before round after round
Making wishful sounds
Lost but not yet found
Hiding away in common grounds
Help if you must
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poem by Sylvia Chidi
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The Cat and The Apple Tree
A house in the garden
Un-robed compound
Dried leaves stretched out
Under an apple tree
Ripen apples fell down
And on the tree like bulbs
Being rotten lied on the floor
Making a quite picture
Leaves fall one by one
Letting to be naked
Surrounding nature gets ready
To warm up the winter
Through a side opened window
An old cat was sitting on the sill
Saying something to ins and outs
On one cannot understand
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poem by Udaya R. Tennakoon
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Entry (Eingang)
Whoever you may be:
Leave well before the night
your room where but familars you see;
last leave your home, which bars the far from sight
whoever you may be.
Then use your eyes that, weak, can barely free
themselves from looking down your worn-off sill -
and raise, extremely slowly, an endarkened tree
all up the sky: alone and slim and still.
And you have made a world. And it is grand
and like a word that may in silence grow.
And as your will its mind shall understand,
your eyes, with slow caress, shall let it go...
poem by Rainer Maria Rilke (24 February 1900), translated by Walter Aue
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A brief encounter [with a jelly]
It was a wibbly wobbly 'affair'
Where dibbly dobbly was nibbling
Wibbly wobbled her way
She moggled his muggle
Then turned away
He was smitten smocked dead
By this little twiddle kitten
But in the hot clime of a humid day
his wibble sighed and flobbed away
She moggled his muggle one last time
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poem by Yvette Smith
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Guard
Guard
by Ted L Glines
Seeking peace (at last) at home
Emerging from Baghdad killing streets
Ejecting our desert camouflage
Yay! - 39th Brigade Combat Team
Arkansas National Guard (we da best!)
Iraq killed thirty-three of us
Never went home to hugs and dreams
America - Fort Sill - Oklahoma
Ready for home - family - life
Knowing we've given our very best
And thinking 'One Week-End a Month..My Ass! '
Now - after fifteen months of war - we'll
See if peace still lives at home
And - fists raised up - hear us yell
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poem by Ted L Glines
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Soldier Girl
When she was born, a lion was born
She can fight when she is weak, and when she is strong
She has nothing to fear
I have watch and wonder
How a women’s soul could be so strong
And my memories are coming back
The wonder of all the wonders
I cached every gestures and words that she expresses
Once she spoke in heart, in high position
Soldier girl do not cry
Soldier girl defeats
Soldier girl go with peace and bring back peace
If only I could see your face again
In the country sill a
I will seek for your obedient
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poem by jude TOUSSAINT
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All In The Day...
...and we sat
facing each other
all set to share
a few words between us
the words that remained unuttered
flew from the finger tips
and settled on each other's skin
two cups of coffee lie there
a layer of cream clutching the insides
glances avoided we sat there
facing each other till a tiny bird
landed on the window sill
caused my neck turn
the bird flew away and now
my neck turned again to you
my eyes for no specific reason
rested on your lips that failed
to come together for a word at least
now appeared strangely expressive
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poem by Indira Babbellapati
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Sonnet XIII
I fancied, while you stood conversing there,
Superb, in every attitude a queen,
Her ermine thus Boadicea bare,
So moved amid the multitude Faustine.
My life, whose whole religion Beauty is,
Be charged with sin if ever before yours
A lesser feeling crossed my mind than his
Who owning grandeur marvels and adores.
Nay, rather in my dream-world's ivory tower
I made your image the high pearly sill,
And mounting there in many a wistful hour,
Burdened with love, I trembled and was still,
Seeing discovered from that azure height
Remote, untrod horizons of delight.
poem by Alan Seeger
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Another Hole for W.R Rodgers
Speak like a singularity, a lack
residing deep inside every lock, just
past the point keys can jab: against all thrust
make safe-ensure your door's core is held back,
for reckless access to that pure center
quarks more quintessence than taking exits
from those pried voids whose secret quickly sates:
ubiquitous if Space presses Enter.
Which inadmissible sill still calls loud
with imagine: our skeleton keeping
each such portal neither open nor shut,
unhoused of that exclusive dustborne cloud
we breathe, though there must be something
it accumulates, accommodates: what?
poem by Bill Knott
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