On Viewing Rodin's "The Thinker"

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RSWells
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0 posted 2002-10-18 10:55 AM

Hulking giant caught mid-thought
knuckles taut against your mouth
flawed, unshod
there's a mulling in your skull

Knotted brow and toughened jaw
some tout you as quite raw
this I doubt
and allow that truth wills out

Clench'd fist grinds furtive thought
foments reminiscence, hurt or God
there's a sense
that you lament, perhaps exalt

Stiffened lip to gripping toes
not if but when we bear life's blows
even stripped
we do our best to stay composed

Now a kinship overflows
an internship of the woes
that the script
we're handed's not the one we chose

Brother sufferer, roughened son
is the wondering ever done?
What other does
our thundering God propose?

"Happy people have no history" - French Proverb

Cpat Hair

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1 posted 2002-10-18 10:57 AM

last two line do well sum it up.....

enjoyed.

Midnitesun

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Gaia

2 posted 2002-10-18 11:00 AM

Excellent imagery, RS. Rodin should be smiling, even if it's with a stiff upper lip.

Seymour Tabin
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3 posted 2002-10-18 11:03 AM

RSWells,
Now a kinship overflows
an internship of the woes
that the script
we're handed's not the one we chose

My pick, good write.

suthern

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4 posted 2002-10-18 11:25 AM

Pictures don't do it justice... but your poem does. *S* I like this very much!

Martie

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5 posted 2002-10-18 11:56 AM

Richard

You turn the hard stone of sculpture into skin and bones and heart. Well done!

Earth Angel
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6 posted 2002-10-18 12:10 PM

I will never gaze upon another likeness of Rodin's "The Thinker", without 'thinking' of you!---and that will be quite often as my sister has such a likeness in her living room!

Enjoyed this very much!

Linda

Sunshine

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7 posted 2002-10-18 01:03 PM

Well, I'm not God,
but I've been known to
sound like thunder,
and likely I have exploded
a time or two,

but my proposal is simple
good Sir...
I would read another
from you...

Sandpiper
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8 posted 2002-10-19 07:37 AM

I like where your insight takes me, and I hope that with each day there will be some new wonder to ponder.

regards2you
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9 posted 2002-10-19 08:49 AM

~I love this poem~ and, there is no explanation necessary.

Enjoyed tremendously, and, thanking you.

Warm Regards,
Pat

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"Desiderata"

Elizabeth Santos
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10 posted 2002-10-19 09:18 AM

Richard,
Another great piece of writing
I greatly admire your poetry
Liz

Dr.Moose1
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11 posted 2002-10-19 11:20 AM

RS,
Even had you not used the word kinship, after reading this, I would have thought it.
Thanks.
Doc

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