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1,000 Days & Nights in Hell !
I was Away for 40 Years and Buddy, Life Was Good! Returning, I've Done The "Right" Thing in The Wrong Place. Life As IT SHOULD BE (?); Wallow in it ! It's Yours !!!
Gender: male Member Since: March 14, 2006 Last Signed In: October 22, 2009 Profile Views: 776 Blog Views: 499 Cancel the Cab - I'll give you a lift. The Critical United States Citizen Soldier Returning Tomorrow poetry as events: truth or fiction? If I Could Sleep Until December 15th, I Would Friends Like No Kind of Restaurant in Town November 07 December 07 January 08 February 08 March 08 April 08 May 08 June 08 July 08 August 08 September 08 October 08 November 08 December 08 January 09 February 09 March 09 April 09 May 09 June 09 July 09 August 09 September 09 October 09 November 09 
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At 0945 the Limos arrive.I've polished my boots. I've a clean, white, longsleeved shirt. I've a black tie and somber expression. I've put the sodas and water in. I've taken the liquor out. I don't want this job. I don't want to show up. I want to quit. He took the job. He was locked and loaded. He didn't quit. OH, GOD OF ISRAEL, STOP THE WAR! STOP THE KILLING! A Maid Before Tapestry
Gregory Clemens
In her sunlit morning room, she reads
again each word on perfect lips too young
to know a sweetheart’s kiss, her only letter from the man.
His words that found her on an afternoon
a full moon ago, she knows
His words in double hearts that long for his return from the tapestry of Earth,
behind her on the wall
in borders, rivers, mountains, oceans moving,
re-forming like the clouds above her,
She sees the face of God and knows her man lives somewhere in this panel of the World;
He’ll find this room again like the letter did, like the
brass nails and leather of her chairs, the pearls upon her desk –Yes
He’ll come to her again as sure as the ornamental iron that holds the World in Place.
“A Maid Before Tapestry” was written in response to a print of Vermeer’s painting, Woman In Blue, (Reading a Letter). The original painting is exhibited in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.
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