[stylist] Poem: "Coffee Mug"

[William L Houts]

HI Chris,

So good to hear from you again, and thanks for taking the time to point 
out those little errors.  I'm glad you like the poem.  I need to start 
running a spellchecker before posting stuff, it seems.

Cheers!



--Bill



On 9/26/2016 12:33 PM, Chris Kuell via stylist wrote:
> Hey Bill,
>
> Welcome back.
>
> I enjoyed your poem. I'm not sure if you are looking for feedback or not,
> but here goes:
>
> Wal-Mart is hyphenated, I believe
>
> Accountss has one too many s
>
> Slimas needs a space between slim and as
>
> Nice job,
>
> Chris
>   
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Houts via stylist
> Sent: Sunday, September 25, 2016 3:50 PM
> To: stylist at nfbnet.org
> Cc: William L Houts
> Subject: [stylist] Poem: "Coffee Mug"
>
> Hi Listers,
>
> Here's the first poem I wrote in what I think of as my current phase, which
> started about a year and a half to two years ago. I think it's fairly
> straightforward, and I'm writing more straightforward poems these days than
> I was doing a couple of years ago, but I still put out solid bricks from
> time to time, ha.
>
> Anyway, the poem begins under the three dashes following my name. Cheers!
>
>    
> --Bill
>    
>
> ---
>
> copyright 2016 William L. Houts
>
> Coffee Mug
>
> United States of America
>
> All Rights Reserved
>
> NO clever crone nor craftsman
>
> by wisest hands shaped and fired this mug;
>
> I bought it at Walmart,unromantic; crass by some
>
> accountss.And yet it pleases:
>
> two shades of blue, a cup of sky and sea,
>
> handle curved and slimas a letter
>
> in elegant Greek. I seek, I guess,
>
> the grail encoded in common things
>
> And there's an artsy I can't abide:
>
> things with faces, grinning or sly,
>
> grandma perky and full of mirth.
>
> I want the romance of handle and hand,
>
> of table and base:embraced
>
> in gravity's arms: a waterfall's wisdom,
>
> the glory of snow dancing down,
>
> the astronauts taste for heavily holy earth
>
> the reverse of transcendence, oversold
>
> and nature's patient round.
>
>
>
>
>
> "It's clever, but does it answer the Sphinx?"
>
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"It's clever, but does it answer the Sphinx?"