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Date Posted: 09:56:15 06/11/02 Tue
Author: Raphaela
Author Host/IP: webcacheB09a.cache.pol.co.uk / 195.92.168.171
Subject: Re: Spring The Lily
In reply to: AAAAGGGSSS 's message, "Spring The Lily" on 21:40:38 05/12/02 Sun

I adore lilies and my living room is adorned with them but sometime the sight of them, or reading a poem mentioning them, affects me strangely - perhaps because of their associations with impending doom. I have often used lilies in my own writing with that kind of symbolism. However, your poem was much more optimistic, especially with seeds that would burst open and create new life. Another one of yours that I enjoyed.

Raphaela

>The draught of the season
>with thinning reeds
>that blew now
>in every direction
>spoke of frailty
>
>Limits
>forgotten
>in the little worlds
>
>where we took every bit
>of our standing
>
>They
>the first to succumb
>feel
>lacks
>of nourishment
>that vacated
>tender grounds
>were water usually
>kept
>bubbling
>
>Suffer wilting
>as others
>more robust demanding
>
>tribes
>of living
>took
>their last breath
>to feed their own
>starving
>
>gladly giving
>lives they had
>sought to keep
>within
>
>to allow
>stronger
>to continue
>
>Known
>that in parting
>still
>seeds remained
>cloaked somewhere
>that would burst
>bubble again
>for them
>
>Spring the lily
>they never had

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