Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!decvax!cca!linus!allegra!eagle!harpo!floyd!cmcl2!philabs!sdcsvax!sdccsu3!za16ao From: za16ao@sdccsu3.UUCP Newsgroups: net.poems Subject: Another Refuge Message-ID: <686@sdccsu3.UUCP> Date: Wed, 25-May-83 15:34:06 EDT Article-I.D.: sdccsu3.686 Posted: Wed May 25 15:34:06 1983 Date-Received: Sat, 4-Jun-83 08:52:55 EDT Lines: 32 Relay-Version:version B 2.10 5/3/83; site harpo.UUCP Message-ID:<686@sdccsu3.UUCP> Date:Wed, 25-May-83 15:34:06 EDT Here's another try at at-the-terminal composition. I thought of a title, now let's think of a poem... Another Refuge -------------- Childish, my common pattern on each weary day traces my path through aching mistakes and tawny, windswept brows. I yearn for misgivings less poignant than my own, for shores less battered by easily recognized, unavoidable, passion-swept waves. I live this lust. Dark shadows already hover above the wind, waiting for the moment of surrender, and I will fall, fall, past the cliffs, the rocky places, the slime-encrusted lowly peaks. All this for a tanned feather-touch, and a smile. In such storms, I seek another refuge. Valerie Polichar, May 25, 1983 Could be worse, I guess...