Thought for the day - August 26, 2000

Subject: Thought for the day - August 26, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Aug 00 - 12:16 AM

THUNDERSTORMS

My mind has thunderstorms,
That brood for heavy hours;
Until they rain me words,
My words are drooping flowers
And sulking, silent birds.

Yet come, dark thunderstorms,
And brood your heavy hours;
For when you rain me words,
My thoughts are dancing flowers
And joyful singing birds.

W. H. Davies from This Singing World (Junior Edition) collected and edited by Louis Untermeyer, 1923

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - August 26, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Aug 00 - 04:03 PM

Well, I thought it was kind of a neat little poem and it goes with the thunderstorms we've been having all summer acorss the West, which have been lighting up the region with wildfires from lightning...

kat

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - August 26, 2000
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 26 Aug 00 - 04:06 PM

Kat, it is indeed a neat poem- I read it, and mused on how hard it was to comment on it on a dazzlingly sunny day. I'm also brain-dead from a long recording session in lovely Nelson, NH, and it's been a bit of a downer to return to suburbia (Malvina Reynolds was thinking of my neighborhood, I'm sure, when she wrote Little Boxes...) so, thank you for the sweet poem, even though I didn't comment at the time!

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - August 26, 2000
From: catspaw49
Date: 26 Aug 00 - 04:36 PM

Iread it kat...this AM before we took off for the day. It made me a litle hopeful and I've been down because this ain't been much of a week!!! But now I'm $450. lighter, but with new glasses so the world seems a little clearer. Then we had a fun day of eating Chinese, going to the library, and stopping at a pet store under new management....and they were great. Kids galore handling all the animals.........Mike held a pretty little python for awhile, and he and Tris both enjoyed assorted birds, cats, ferrets, rabbits, etc. What a great way to run a pet store...very relaxed. Karen and I were both enamored of a young African Gray who rode all over the store for an hour or so on my shoulder.

So your thought started the day on a hopeful note and it has worked out very well!!

Spaw

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - August 26, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 26 Aug 00 - 05:40 PM

Ah, shucks, 2Fair and Spaw, thanks...I was just feeling sorry for the little poem, not knowing if anyone had read it or not.

Allison, recording studio? Another CD coming out? Yeah!!

Spaw, you were blind but now can see? Yeah!! The pet store sounds great..

thanks ya'll...kat

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - August 26, 2000
From: JenEllen
Date: 26 Aug 00 - 07:06 PM

I read it luv, but it just made me a little homesick. We don't get thunder-bumpers out here. I tried explaining the big sky rattlers to the SweetBaboo, and he just doesn't get it.

~Elle

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - August 26, 2000
From: bflat
Date: 26 Aug 00 - 07:35 PM

Kat,

I really like the poem. My interpertation is that it is about facing adversity and getting through it. For another it may mean an entirely different thing. One of the reasons poems like music can be personal and universal at the same time. Very hopeful.

Thanks for the thought!!

bflat

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - August 26, 2000
From: Mbo
Date: 26 Aug 00 - 07:38 PM

Elle, you should drag Baboo down here sometime. We have thunderboomers almost every afternoon. I know, I had to drive through 85 miles through them yesterday afternoon!