[at-l] Emily Dickinson

[Bob C]

by: Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

HE gentian weaves her fringes, 
The maple's loom is red. 
My departing blossoms 
Obiate parade. 
  
A brief, but patient illness, 
An hour to prepare; 
And one, below this morning, 
Is where the angels are. 
  
It was a short procession,-- 
The bobolink was there, 
An aged bee addressed us, 
And then we knelt in prayer. 
  
We trust that she was willing,-- 
We ask that we may be. 
Summer, sister, seraph, 
Let us go with thee! 
  
In the name of the bee 
And of the butterfly 
And of the breeze, amen!




> ------------Original Message------------
> From: Sloetoe <sloetoe at yahoo.com>
> To: hopeflpoet at webtv.net, at-l at backcountry.net, infpeace at gmail.com
> Date: Sat, Dec-30-2006 10:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [at-l] Emily Dickinson
>
> Alright alright alright....
> If you poetesses think The Big E was so hot poet and
> hiker(ess)-wise, why not post a killer poem, to show
> us Philistines whuz'all the fuss about? C'mon, lay it
> on us.
> 
> Oh, and as for the long skirts, the hardest part of
> the United States settlement was done and underway
> when Miss Emily was doing her thing from the upstairs
> window, all done by women in "long skirts" and
> children as well, nearly all of whom went *shoeless*
> for the trip. Let's remember our forebears were much
> more physical than us. (And by "forebears", I don't
> just mean "pioneers" or "Pilgrims" but, heh, let's go
> back a few MILLION years. We wuz MADE to move ladies
> n' gennilmun.
> 
> sloetoe
> waitingfortheEmily
> (** Special Note Department: If you do a spellcheck on
> waitingfortheEmily, you get MaidenForm. Kinda poetic,
> ain't it?)
> 
> --- hopeflpoet at webtv.net wrote:
> 
> >  in the unlikely event that those who read Emily
> > don't already know, ...
> > ...she definitely would
> > have been a long-distance hiker if those long skirts
> > hadn't been the required female 'gear'. 
> 
> Spatior! Nitor! Nitor! Tempero!
>    Pro Pondera Et Meliora.
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