[stylist] Poem: "Coffee Mug"

[William L Houts]

HI Shawn,

I think you've described my aim with this poem perfectly, Shawn. Thanks 
for the kind words.



--Bill




On 9/27/2016 12:03 PM, Jacobson, Shawn D via stylist wrote:
> Bill
>
> I liked that (actually think I understood some of it).  I think you are after the pleasures that humble items can provide, like a generic coffee mug from Wall-Mart.
>
> Shawn
>
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> Subject: [stylist] Poem: "Coffee Mug"
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> 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
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> copyright 2016 William L. Houts
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> Coffee Mug
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> United States of America
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> All Rights Reserved
>
> NO clever crone nor craftsman
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> by wisest hands shaped and fired this mug;
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> I bought it at Walmart,unromantic; crass by some
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> accountss.And yet it pleases:
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> two shades of blue, a cup of sky and sea,
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> handle curved and slimas a letter
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> in elegant Greek. I seek, I guess,
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> the grail encoded in common things
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> And there's an artsy I can't abide:
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> things with faces, grinning or sly,
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> grandma perky and full of mirth.
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> I want the romance of handle and hand,
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> of table and base:embraced
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> in gravity's arms: a waterfall's wisdom,
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> the glory of snow dancing down,
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> the astronauts taste for heavily holy earth
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> the reverse of transcendence, oversold
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> and nature's patient round.
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> "It's clever, but does it answer the Sphinx?"
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"It's clever, but does it answer the Sphinx?"