[stylist] Poem - "Grail" - Second Draft

[William L Houts]

HI Bridgit, and Merry Beltane!

Thanks so much for reading the poem and posting your response.  It seems 
I've had a long career of writing poems on the humblest subjects.  I do 
feel the call to write one of those epic five hundred line declarations 
which sort out heaven and earth, but in practice, I always gravitate 
towards cats and coffee cups.  Woe is me;  I'll never catch up with 
Eliot this way, LOL.


--Bill







On 5/1/2015 8:28 AM, Bridgit Kuenning-Pollpeter wrote:
> Bill,
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> As always, I love your use of diction and phrasing. And being such a simple
> subject, I enjoy the language you use to craft the poem.
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> Bridgit
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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.
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> --Bill
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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?"