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Re: poem by Marilyn

Amazing, TAPS!  I never knew she wrote poetry. :)pat

posted by Pat_B on June 21, 2008 at 10:17 AM | link to this | reply

I want to see it as well.   sam

posted by sam444 on June 21, 2008 at 7:20 AM | link to this | reply

posted by __Purple_Mermaid11__ on June 21, 2008 at 3:47 AM | link to this | reply

A poem written by Marilyn Monroe:

Life-
I am of both your directions
Existing more with the cold frost
Strong as a cobweb in the wind
Hanging downward the most
Somehow remaining
those beaded rays have the colours
I've seen in paintings-ah life
they have cheated you

thinner than a cobweb's thread
sheerer than any-

but it did attach itself
and held fast in strong winds
and singed by the leaping hot fires
life-of which at singular times
I am both of your directions-
somehow I remain hanging downward the most
as both of your directions pull me
                                   --Marilyn Monroe

posted by TAPS. on June 20, 2008 at 8:24 PM | link to this | reply

I had to check it out on the net and i ended up reading this

"The first time I met Dubus III in person, he told me about the unexpected way his father had influenced his art. "It's not his fine work," he told me, "but seeing him walk daily into his downstairs study in our tiny rented house and try to write something beautiful for someone he would probably never even meet. It's that image that gave me permission as a young man to view writing as a legitimate line of work to devote one's life to."

And this was a good thing to read after waking up despairing of chasing my tail on bits of journalism.

 

Thank You!

posted by Azur on June 20, 2008 at 11:15 AM | link to this | reply

Very Cool..

http://www.pw.org/

~Peace, OTA

posted by OTA. on June 20, 2008 at 7:36 AM | link to this | reply