Missing you
I really miss Tim. I really really do. This summer's gone by so fast and so many crazy things have happened. I want to halt time, but I also want it to go by really quickly.
In the burrows of the Nightmare
Where Justice naked is,
Time watches from the shadow
And coughs when you would kiss.
"In headaches and in worry
Vaguely life leaks away,
And Time will have his fancy
To-morrow or to-day.
"Into many a green valley
Drifts the appalling snow;
Time breaks the threaded dances
And the diver's brilliant bow.
"O plunge your hands in water,
Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin
And wonder what you've missed.
-W.H. Auden
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I love W.H. Auden, and I do not read that much poetry. My lack of culture is evident when I admit that my first exposure to his poetry was on "Four Weddings and a Funeral". I have read much more of his work since then, and it never fails to make me think and feel.
Brava, Mooncake!
the beauty of auden, is the brevity of what he has to say, and its accompanying depth. Never fails to make you think.
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