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La sottise, l'erreur, le péché, la lésine, Occupent nos esprits et travaillent nos corps, Et nous alimentons nos aimables remords, Comme les mendiants nourrissent leur vermine.
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Category: Poetry, Classics  -  General  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN

You stand aghast in your pajamas, just a boy / of six or seven, your feet cold even on the carpeted floor, / your back turned to your father’s dresser, the one / on top of which each night he places the mysterious / contents of his trouser pockets, the loose change and keys / and lucky silver dollar and other things you think / might offer clues to the world of work he goes to / when he leaves the house at dawn five mornings a week.
Description: Accessible and engaging, the poems in Randall R. Freisinger's Nostalgia's Thread are provocative reconsiderations of the American experience as depicted in ten of Norman Rockwell's best known paintings. Arguably the only serious collection of poems inspired by Norman Rockwell's images, they were conceived just prior to the attacks of September 11, 2001, and written in their wake. These poems remind us that visual art is never static, the beholder's eye never innocent. They bear witness to the fact that each cultural era must inevitably reinterpret its rich artistic inheritance within the context of its current collective experience. With unflinching honesty and deep compassion, these poems present a personal and collective past which is both comforting and disturbing, both 'nostalgia's thread' and 'the barbed wire / of memory.'
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ROSE, harsh rose, marred and with stint of petals, meagre flower, thin, sparse of leaf, more precious than a wet rose single on a stem— you are caught in the drift.
Description: 1916 Edition of collected Poems
Category: Poetry  -  General  -  PUBLIC DOMAIN