[stylist] Poem - "Grail" - Second Draft

[William L Houts]

HI Shawn,

Thank you so much.  I think you and I are in accord when it comes to the 
humility in our chosen subjects.  I often find that I have more to say 
about the beauties of daily life than I do about, say, the fragility or 
toughness of the soul.  That's a subject to attempt one day, maybe, but 
in the meantime I'm honing my craft on dogs and coffee cups.



--Bill





On 5/1/2015 4:53 AM, Jacobson, Shawn D wrote:
> Such a beautiful poem about such a humble thing.
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> I tend to buy coffee cups for the Mrs. When I'm on a business trip and want to bring something home from the place I'm traveling to.
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> Hey Gang,
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> This one's almost hot off the presses.  Now I can go play my favorite RPG.  Woot!
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> Grail
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> It seems a nothing, this coffee cup, purchased
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> at our uttter breakfast home. I'd always loved their mugs,
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> their wide ceramic mouths and handles with their buxom hold.
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> And on my birthday unremembered otherwise my mother
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> gave one to me, with "Hob Nob", that haven'sname
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> imprinted on the vessel's side; so ennobled
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> by the heart and hand from whom it came it is,
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> ceramic chalice, cup and grail, it's sacred as the laughing earth,
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> and communicates my birth and homely history.
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> Such honeybee gifts, tiny wise, and splendid with trove
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> tell sagas of house and heart-minted gold.
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"Oh, Sophie!  Whyfore have you eated all de cheeldren?"