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Huan Yi
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0 posted 2008-08-06 08:08 PM

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Women
Are different
From men

Men understand
An end of things
Women never do

So men go on
Beyond the doors
They close

While women wait
For their return

.

serenity blaze
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1 posted 2008-08-06 08:19 PM

smile

Is this in reference to any one of his poems, or just the "all" of it?

Huan Yi
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Waukegan

2 posted 2008-08-06 08:21 PM

.

SB,

Men At Forty

John

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serenity blaze
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3 posted 2008-08-06 08:31 PM

Thank you.

I should know more of his work, as I fell in love with Love's Stratagems long ago, and although I really suck at reciting poems, that is one that I have never forgotten.

I'm off to read more now.

Thanks for your assistance and nudge.

Balladeer

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4 posted 2008-08-06 09:03 PM

Sounds like poetic justice to me

MOCindy
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5 posted 2008-08-06 09:10 PM

very philosophical. But I wonder if it is true.

Wonderful poem!
C

serenity blaze
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6 posted 2008-08-06 09:16 PM

Okay.

I just wish this were up for a more in depth analysis, because I tossed off a less than thoughtful response, but after re-reading your poem, and the last stanza of Men at Forty (which I loved, btw)

I can feel the depth of a greater sadness than I did on first read.

I'm a lover of a last line punch, so I hope it's not intrusive for me to quote that last stanza here?

"That is like the twilight sound
Of the crickets, immense,
Filling the woods at the foot of the slope
Behind their mortgaged houses."

smile

a new appreciation from me--so if that is what you were aiming for, you did succeed.

"behind their mortgaged houses."

to your own

"While women wait
For their return"

It's true.

A woman will wait until she's evicted by authorities. Sadly. Usually.

hmm

maybe not all women...

I'll shaddup.

Robert E. Jordan
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7 posted 2008-08-06 09:33 PM

John,

This is a well done generalization.

Bobby

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8 posted 2008-08-06 09:36 PM

I'll have to think about this for awhile.
Ida

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